A Knighthood for Richard Whiteley

"I'm the Magical Gooseman - half man, half goose, and half Knight (I have three halves just like Countdown). This is my genetic make-up, so my Knighthood is independent of the usual honours system and thus more powerful. I can also confer Knighthoods onto "

"educating and stimulating well done Richard"

"Twice Nightly Whiteley should be knighted!"

"The man was the deity of daytime TV- and I fancied him something rotten"

"If Richard were on a collision course with destiny, his Knighthood would be a bird that had been sucked into his turbine and blown out the other side in a cloud of feathers and blood. Please support this petition."

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"There was a time in the 80s when very few contestants had a word disallowed. This is because offering an invalid word would mean you got burnt. You could be 50 points up - it didn't matter. You would forfeit both the game and your life."

"I'm actually -- wait. Knighthood for Richard Whiteley? Count me in on that, I want to see it happen please! Also, Wittgenstein was a behaviourist."

"I would like Richard to win a thood. I am a thoodie myself, on my programme The Eth Word."

"You'll never be my equal. In your whole drawn out saga you killed one person like the loser that you are. I bagged a whole load of them and will always be your superior."

"Yeah knighthood for whiteley I agree completely"

"To Mikey Wheeler at number 171 - What is it that Richard Whiteley is alleged to have done? You need to be clearer in your posts mate!"

"Now that that fat hat vat I placed on the mat is being handled by that rat Matt Gatte I'm at my flat wondering what cravat to wear to celebrate being the Prime Ministussssssssssss."

"We seldom make demands of oneself, but on this occasion above all others, Richard Whiteley should really be granted a posthumous knighthood. However, we have decided to award it posthumously, as we find the symmetry pleasing."

"Just a brief note while I am visiting the internet. This petition is still under consideration so don't give up hope yet. I have yet to make up my mind but would prefer it if there weren't quite as many benders posting on here! This is official Royal poli"

"Give him a knighthood now"

"What David Cameron says."

"In death I join Richard Whiteley. We are now equal."

"I love Richard Whiteley so much that i think of him doing me from behind. I use a cucumber and some lube to pretend to myself that it is richard giving me one. I pretend that he is wearing nothing but his famous ties and that he sometimes puts it round my"

"A survey was done and people were asked to rank ten celebrities (living and dead) in order of how deserving they were of a knighthood. Unsurprisingly, Richard was the Condorcet winner."

"Give him a hood! Give him a hood! A Knighthood, yeah! Give him a hood! Give him a hood! A K-hood, yeah! A K-Hood or a Dayhood whichever one you could, a Fighthood or a Knighthood, whichever one you should."

"I was president before you, Barack, and I'm black too. So shut your face"

"You don't see many games going to deuce nowadays. It's a shame but they've changed a lot of things over the years - the name (it used to be tennis), the format (it used to be more ball-based, whereas now it's about letters and numbers) and also the fan-ba"