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Re:Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees? by tormeh on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @10:29AM (#10123094)
A line from the show "The West Wing" went something like this:

"Please, Reverend, call me 'Mr. President'. It's not that I need you to stroke my ego, it's that in this job I have to make some difficult choices that can be uncomfortable to me personally, and I would like you to emphasize the office rather than the person holding it"

As a Scandinavian, all honorifics, including "Mr." etc. sound weird, but that was a great explanation for why some people would like one.

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Re:Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees? by vacri on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @07:30PM (#10126619)
Mad Magazine had a gag way back in the day saying that one of the benefits of being a senator is being called "The Honorable [name]", right up until they jail you for all the horrible things you did in office...
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