Queen: So what do you do?'

Bob: whisperwhispercroakcroakemmylouharrisgarthbrooksderektrucks
whispercroakprogressiverockamericanawhispercroakwhisperwhisper
reallyreallyfinenewalbummorefromthatlateronwhispercroakcroak...

Queen: I'm sorry, what was that?*

[* or, more likely after decades of practice, 'How nice', then shuffles swiftly along...]

John Frank WINNARD. Director, William Santus & Co Ltd (Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls). For services to the Confectionery Trade in the North West.

Still no knighthood for Bongo. Peace and love.

When I helped out on Bob Harris' GLR show in the 1990s he became a great friend and mentor of mine. He really is a lovely human being and his passion for music is second to none. Some people on this site might not like everything he plays (myself included), but that isn't the point. He cares deeply about the records he selects for his shows and spends hours deliberating over the running order before going on air. And his warmth, integrity and humility are most welcome in an industry in which said qualities are often in short supply.

Well deserved, Bob!

Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden have joined Bill Oddie in getting OBEs. Now, I find them the funniest thing on the radio on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, but have they forgotten their earlier series I'm Sorry I'll Read that Again? One of the running gags was mockery of the honours system and the way in which OBEs in particular seemed to be randomly awarded. During a sketch there would be a line like:

"Then across the steppes swept the Tyrant of the East, the destroyer of civilizations, the most feared man in the known world. It was Genghis Khan.... OBE."

I have never been able to take the honours system seriously since then.

Former Word cover star Bryan Ferry CBE.

To See You Knight.

Just want to say that I thought that at midnight and 30 seconds when they announced it on Radio 5 as I drove home from the London Mingle. Along with every sub editor in the country I expect.

Byron Ferry - for services to sheep impressions
Emma Freud - for services to cockney rhyming slang

BTW only Bernard Cribbins OBE?! When Melrose Ape and myself saw him in conversation at the NFT last year we mused on his lack of gong and decided that he must have turned it down in the past.

For millions of kids he has entertained for years it will have to be an unoffical Sir Bernie of Cribbster

And he's got Word favourite (well, for some at least) CW Stoneking in session tonight.
Nice.