Dylan in St Andrews!!!!

[rae]

HOLY BALLS! You lucky bums graduating on June 23rd - BOB DYLAN is getting an honorary degree! WHY did I graduate in November, WHY???

[LeopardSkinQueen]

*is graduating on the 23rd*

First I've heard of it. Is it the morning or afternoon ceremony?

ETA: It's the afternoon ceremony. Which is mine. Ye Gods.

Here's the story: http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external ... erence=653

[hr][s]You have never been in love until you've seen the stars reflect in the reservoirs.
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[rae]

I don't know - but can I beg and plead an extra ticket(s) off anyone who has one? PLEASE????? I will bake you a chocolate guinness cake! I can't afford monetary bribes but it is a lovely cake!

[LeopardSkinQueen]

Yes it is a lovely cake. I don't have any spare tickets though. Sorry

[hr][s]You have never been in love until you've seen the stars reflect in the reservoirs.
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[rae]

Anyone! PLEASE! I beg! I will do ANYTHING! Need a psuedo date? That's me! Need a backrub? I'm your woman! Someone to clean your toilet? Pack your bags? Scrub the floor? PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE!

[puzzled]

Um, why is the university giving him a degree and why, considering he has turned down most offers of a similar nature from other univerisities, is he accepting it?

[rae]

Because he is a genius, and the man presenting the degree is a big Dylan fan/scholar ...and he's here anyway for two shows...the only other one he's accepted was Princeton and we're the Princeton of the North or summat...I DON'T KNOW! I'm too busy tearing my hair out at my lack of omniscience!

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Just out of interest what would constitute a pseudo date?

[hr]Ah, I hate how nothing changes. Such a peaceful Earth should just collapse...

[random]

[s]rae wrote on 15:34, 16th Jun 2004:
Anyone! PLEASE! I beg! I will do ANYTHING! Need a psuedo date? That's me! Need a backrub? I'm your woman! Someone to clean your toilet? Pack your bags? Scrub the floor? PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE!



A 'pseudo' date?? Sheesh... that's a pretty lame offer if you're that desperate!

[rae]

Fine! I'll put out! PLEASE!!!

[puzzled]

[s]rae wrote on 15:57, 16th Jun 2004:
Because he is a genius,

Maybe, may be not; but surely there must be far more deserving people out there.


and the man presenting the degree is a big Dylan fan/scholar

I can not bring myself to believe that even this university would make that a factor in deciding whether to give him a gong. Surely not?

[random]

[s]rae wrote on 16:01, 16th Jun 2004:
Fine! I'll put out! PLEASE!!!


Damnit. I should never have said anything. Now I wish I had a ticket to give away. Drat.

[rae]

More deserving? There are plenty of DESERVING people but surely you can't fault the man who defined a musical genre and generation? He is undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians and writers of the twentieth century.

As for Dr Corcoran presenting the degree being a factor - I do believe people have to put cases forward for honourary graduands. So it would be a factor.

[andrewdalgleish]

i should have been graduating on wednesday afternoon.

[rae]

The university should consider this as a means of getting people to work harder - get real celebs in for honorary degrees, publish at the beginning of term who will be at your ceremony, and surely no one would flunk out! Just a thought...

[Haunted]

hes not that great, i dont like the fact that they can hand out degrees when i have to live in poverty and labour for years to get one. seems like a hollow PR thing

[medea]

I'm graduating Wednesday afternoon!

Hooray for ancient history!

[lapis lazuli]

[s]medea wrote on 18:41, 16th Jun 2004:
I'm graduating Wednesday afternoon!

Hooray for ancient history!


I was quite excited about graduating at the same ceremony as Trevor McDonald getting an honorary degree.. hmm. but I wish I was in the same ceremony as Bob Dylan... never mind, I'm seeing him play at the SECC on Wednesday night so can't wait for that.

Is anyone else going to see him?

[Mr Comedy]

[s]lapis lazuli wrote on 18:58, 16th Jun 2004:
[s]medea wrote on 18:41, 16th Jun 2004:[i]
I'm graduating Wednesday afternoon!

Hooray for ancient history!


I was quite excited about graduating at the same ceremony as Trevor McDonald getting an honorary degree.. hmm. but I wish I was in the same ceremony as Bob Dylan... never mind, I'm seeing him play at the SECC on Wednesday night so can't wait for that.

Is anyone else going to see him?
[/i]

Trevor MacDonald is playing at the SECC?


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"[I am] a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning.
-Samuel Johnson

[puzzled]

[s]lapis lazuli wrote on 18:58, 16th Jun 2004:

I was quite excited about graduating at the same ceremony as Trevor McDonald getting an honorary degree.. hmm. but I wish I was in the same ceremony as Bob Dylan


I'm sorry but I just don't get how people can be so excited at being in the same room as a 'celebrity'.
In the case of Sir Trevor, he was a good newsreader, but how on earth does that merit being rewarded by an academic institution. I might be able to understand if the person had given the university a heap of money which helped further scholarship, but what have these people actually done?