'Gongs' for all!

Yep! You may not realise this but two million or so AA members might just be eligible to get their very own 'gong'. Just get a friend to write you a recommendation and send it off to Queen Queenie (or Liz Windsor), c/o Buck House, London SW1A 1AA and you too could become the proud owner of a BEM (Medallist of the Order of the British Empire). (Now what did we do with that pesky Empire? Can't find it anywhere! Never mind! We'll have a look later).

These awards are handed out yearly to the good and worthy (and also civil servants, judges and politicians for just doing what they're paid to do anyway as well as the well-heeled who've given the party in power a bit of a 'bung'), a bit like the merit badges they used to hand out at school. Do some people never grow up!

See The Queen's Birthday Honours list (the very last person on it … of course!)

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous PBS ... Pretty Bloody Sober!)

PS For a few grand you can even get yourself a peerage and flounce around the House of Lords draped in a dead animal fur! So much for Darwin's theory!

PPS Thanks to our correspondent 

PPPS Plymouth Intergroup corruption (see here)