A recently deceased drugs kingpin who founded a multimillion-dollar methamphetamine empire was receiving an unexpected send-off on Saturday, with an elaborate funeral supported by politicians and city officials and a guard of honour provided by the police.
The preamble had set the scene: renditions of Shannon's 'There is an Isle' and Munster's 'Stand up and Fight;' a guard of honour provided by representatives of St Munchin's and Shannon.
Van Persie has not taken long to consummate his new relationship at Old Trafford and will run out through a guard of honour provided by his former team-mates, and to an expected chorus of boos, having proved the pivotal figure in United's comfortable title triumph, which was crowned by his 24th Premier League goal of the campaign against Aston Villa on Monday.
Here, we test experimentally whether the fear of being shamed or the prospect of being honoured provides an incentive to cooperate.
Once randomised if a participant specifically requested that the intervention was discontinued or modified this would be honoured provided valid consent was obtained; however, as both interventions are delivered perioperatively such a scenario is extremely unlikely.
For girls with little education they provide an opportunity to shine and have the honour of providing for their families by sending new-found riches back home.
Olympic commentators desperately competed for the honour of providing the "most sexist coverage", and men worldwide were gifted some insightful advice about how to talk to women in the street, even when they are wearing headphones and might not want to talk to you.
Many have paid the ultimate price, 171 of them, according to the running honour roll provided by Reporters Sans Frontieres.
National prestige and honour still provided a motive for war (one thinks of Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1981), but these were isolated cases.
It is ultimately this sense of shared honour which provides the basis for a united vision before Agincourt, but one that feeds into narratives of home and community as well as army life, with all engaging plural narratives.
