Not Knighted!

"I find it hard to believe that he has been knighted. He hardly seems deserving."
"I did not say that he'd been knighted."
"You did! I distinctly heard you say it!"
"No. He'd been ignited. No one knows yet whether it was spontaneous combustion, some wild experiment of his gone wild, or an accident. All we know is that suddenly, mid-lecture, he was engulfed in flames, albeit briefly."

"So you actually said he'd been ignited, not knighted."
"Yes."
"Hmm. Well, I suppose that is a more credible claim."