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The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists received its Royal Charter yesterday - its mark of approval from the Queen. The Livery Companies were originally proto-trade unions or professional standards bodies, depending which you look at it, based in the City of London. The first, the Worshipful Company of Mercers, got …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Great news

    Now the BCS seems to have gone tits up where do I sign?

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  2. Ralph B
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    Sounds like something out of a Terry Pratchett book ...

    I hope and expect the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists to tell Black Rod exactly where to stick it - employing appropriate open standard - and have a nice sounding electronic doorbell fitted to the Houses of Parliament.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      No, really?

      It's almost as if pterry satirises real events and institutions.

      Also, I think "Fearsome fellows" was a bit bitchy. I'm assuming their decorations mean they've done scary stuff. And by scary I don't mean wearing a uniform for 60 years.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Don't criticise BCS! They donate hundreds of secondhand anoraks a year to the third world.

    I thought XANSA was now Steria.

    I got an unusual response to an application from them the other day. (Well, a response, and that's unusual.) and he told me he'd not been Xansa for years.

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  4. steward
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    "Worshipful Company of Information Technologists"?

    Sounds like something American steampunk enthusiasts would come up with for roleplay. The Society for Creative Anachronism figures out how to make iPads "in-period".

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  5. John Whitehead
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    Vile toadies should be ashamed

    Dressing up daft, going to church and grovelling to royalty -- these people have clearly taken leave of their senses. Have they no pride in current achievements? Must they look back to a fictionalised mediaeval past to validate today's success? It makes me feel sick and I despair of ever seeing grown up people acting rationally and intelligently in combination to improve the lot of others. Disgusting.

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    1. gimbal
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      Hear, hear

      @John Whitehead: You know, I think you've hit it straight on the mark, friend.

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    2. Graham Marsden
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      WTF?

      Sorry...

      ... this is El Reg, not the Socialist Worker...

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  6. M7S

    @AC 14:08

    You're quite right about members of the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers (part of the Honourable Artillery Company). Many of them have an impressive CV in, um, particular fields.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    BOFH

    Did I spot the BOFH there?

    The one where, if you look carefully, you can just make out that the ceremonial spear is actually a disguised cattle prod.

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  8. John Whitehead
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    Socialist Worker? More romantic nonsense

    Don't confuse republicanism with socialism. There's no need to fantasise about a utopian future of smiling proles selflessly aiding the oppressed in order to oppose the nonsense of monarchy and state-sponsored religion. Let's just be grown up about politics and put away childish things like crowns and mitres.

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  9. Cortland Richmond
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    Oh goody!

    And do the Worshipful Company enjoy the right to carry swords in the City of London? Brings new... intensity to Net Neutrality! Nine dead after committee meeting, etc. Equal THAT,BOFH!

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