Naomi - //andy-hughes, I don't think that would wash unless you could demonstrate who, other than you, made the allegation. I'd give this one up if I were you. You have placed your foot firmly and inextricably in your mouth. //
I have never had you down as one of the brigade of nit-pickers who analyse each and every word of anything I post in an effort to sink into a morass of minutia and drive everyone else off the thread with sheer boredom and frustration - and I am sure you are not.
So let’s park the bit about the accountant, and concentrate on the gist of my point, which is the unsuitability of celebrities in general to receive this kind of ‘tribute’, especially when people are glossing over one of the more unsavoury aspects of a career that would appear close to saint-hood if some people are to have their way.
The point of my post remains valid – Sir Terry is not the paragon of wonderfulness that merits this level of national sob-fest – it demeans the notion of what a tribute actually is, as well as demeaning the venue in which is possibly to be held, and it opens the floodgates for anyone who works for the BBC for a certain amount of time to expect this sort of unseemly eulogising when they have cocked their toes up.