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― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Shoe-ins for above-the-fold obituaries in the NYT (with a catch)

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't it be lovely if she died without publicity, missed only by a few friends and close associates and buried in a quiet and unregarded corner of an anonymous churchyard, there to molder away peacefully - wholly forgotten by the world?

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

No. That would suck. I want the opposite of Regan. Rejoicing in the streets, yo.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.brianregan.com/images/briandance12.gif

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Daughter Carole - who is still in Australia having won the ITV1 show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

OH WELL

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

then how would I find her grave so I could dance on it?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

RJG for the official eulogy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

then how would I find her grave so I could dance on it?

The breathless anticipation is always better than the reality.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

They either wall off or guard her grave, or it'll be drenched with piss every day for years.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Her doppelganger is of course Vivienne Westwood. I certainly hope she can live on without her evil twin.

― moley, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

There are usually posters around Hackney Central Station yelling "PARTY! TRAFALGAR SQUARE! The Saturday after Thatcher dies."

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've said this before Martin. There will be a 20-mile queue of people with full bladders.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

false alarm

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you people are cruel. Maybe that's why I love you so.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 8 December 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

a cruel irony that John Peel would have gone to tap classes for the opportunity to shake it on her grave. oh well.

― john clarkson, Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, did they ever post ("honor") guards at Reagan's grave?

― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

to make sure no honor got in, har har?

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

HIGH FIVE! I'M LOLLIN IT

― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

I bet she kicks off right before Obama is inaugurated.

― teeny, Monday, 29 December 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

haha hi teeny

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 December 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

She's back! (Teeny that is.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 December 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

Better the day of the inauguration, so she could be legitimately overshadowed and demoted.

― Aimless, Monday, 29 December 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

She would never let anything overshadow her.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

Broken Arm.

"It's a simple fracture, but bearing in mind who she is, she's 83 and the shock to the system, it's just belt and braces. There is nothing untoward."

― Mark G, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

Fell off her broomstick I'll bet.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:14 (sixteen years ago)

hit by egg thrown by ilxor

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

mosh pit at Rolf Harris gig

― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

Tripped on her daughter's gollywog.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

is this news? no

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

^^^ new ILX strapline

― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

It was on the Guardian website as 'breaking news' which I thought was quite apt. But yeah, not much of a story.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

"is this news? is THIS news?"

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

Elvis Costello is taking his wellies off... for now.

― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) "I hope you saved some NEWS for meeeeeeeeeeee!"

― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:38 (sixteen years ago)

Kind of dreading her dying as the gushing hagiography and nostalgic revisionism which will be foisted upon will be next level nausea.

― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:46 (sixteen years ago)

yeah but at least she'll be dead.

― a hoy hoy, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

Do people think that'll actually happen outside of the usual media suspects who always held those views anyway and as such won't be revising anything? I honestly think the real necrophilia will be pretty avoidable by just not reading the Telegraph or whatever

― leave true black metal to those who don't deserve to listen to it (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:51 (sixteen years ago)

It'll be all "divisive figure", "as hated as she was loved" etc etc.

― Matt DC, Friday, 12 June 2009 12:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BVp5m2kHL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU02_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/There-No-Alternative-Margaret-Thatcher/dp/0465002315#

― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 12 June 2009 12:59 (sixteen years ago)

it's gonna be pretty hard to ignore the millions of people queueing up to dance on her grave, no?

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

the worst thing is you won't be able to go to an indie club for like 6 months cos they'll all be playing that fucking hefner song

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:03 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) They could make it easier for everyone by having her ashes scattered across the whole of Hyde Park. And then holding a huge rave there.

― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

ft. live PA by Blackout Crew performing 'How Much Is That Doggy In The Window' and 'Telstar'

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:11 (sixteen years ago)

the worst thing is you won't be able to go to an indie club for like 6 months cos they'll all be playing that fucking hefner song

haha yes

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:12 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) They could make it easier for everyone by having her ashes ~~scattered across the whole of~~placed inside a giant floating duck house in Hyde Park. And then holding a huge rave there.
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― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

Is there a musical genre called duck house?

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:14 (sixteen years ago)

clubs with low ceilings, maybe

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.buckstars.co.uk/images/orville.jpg
e, e, look at me, I'm flying and other Daily Mail baiting drug referencing bollocks...

― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

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shakey mo spartacus, i predict

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

Perhaps because one of her children has a working relationship with the media outlet in question? Duh, you guys.

― ned ragú (suzy), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

(Tests echo chamber) pinging-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing

Dial up more reverb, Sparky. I can still hear myself think.

― Aimless, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

Duh you guys

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

these things have gone around before

the old crone probably fakes her alzheimers and is shorting on her own death with some clandestine offshore bookie

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

o jeez i was making a joke

― max, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

typical bbc

By Paul Fletcher

2134: Still not dead

From Rob, Chelmsford, via text: "Fletch, you need to resign from the BBC now! You are total pants. My licence fee pays your salary and I object to you being employed by the beeb for your totally futile comments. Your P45 is hopefully in the post."

2131: Nothing

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

sorry, didn't realise you were joking

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

please flag future jokes with a joke tag

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

u need to get 'joke sense' the same way obit writers have 'death sense

― max, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

i couldn't laugh as i had a vision of your death

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:44 (fifteen years ago)

have you got any tips of similar nature from yr contact before

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

Already jockeying for the grief vote: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5831523/clegg-heir-to-thatcher.thtml

― Stevie T, Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

dammit why was i even considering voting lib dem

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

lib cunts more like.

this election will be my first time voting in the uk. i think i'll vote for someone awful and then move back to ireland having sabotaged your country.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

Why did I read that when I knew it would severely dent my good mood? argh.

xp you'll have a job not voting for someone awful, but that was probably your point

― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

voting for someone awful = scoring from here

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/11/article-0-01CA4EFF0000044D-740_468x286.jpg

xpost

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

i had labour canvass me today and basically the guy was happy with me saying "not too impressed with labour but definitely no voting tory". His main point was "Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, ok fair enough - shrugs his shoulders -, but compared to David Cameron and George Osborne" - tilts head does you-know-what-i'm-saying face.

― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

i am fairly happy with the status quo tbh. prob the biggest disaster i can imagine is curbed drinking hours. but obv david cameron is the most embarrassing pandering leech of all time.

x-post labour called to my door a few weeks back and basically said to vote for them just in the case the bnp got in. tho in fairness to your dude, osborne is actually even worse than cameron, the way he chortles like a little demon imp while Cameron makes some lame jibe at PMQs is actually vile.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

I'm aware of the Tory powers' conniving trendseeking crypto-libertarian elitism, but Nick Clegg's awfulness hadn't been manifest until now

I'll have to vote Labour :(

or like SWP woohooooo

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)

I have to (obv don't have to) vote Lib Dem because the only other party who might get in here is the Tories and I want to hang on to some delusion of minor differences

also the local LD MP seems sound, or at least the Daily Mail article about him makes me warm to him enormously:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490815/Meet-Dr-Death-Lib-Dem-MP-Evan-Harris-backs-embryo-experiments-euthanasia-freer-abortions.html
(in which they claim that a fairly middle-of-road dude is a radical ideological extremist for having a science background, and drag out Nadine Dorries to say he looks a bit funny or something)

― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

For all the chat about the polls narrowing, when I checked Paddy Power for the election odds they had labour at 4/1 and the tories at 1/7.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

xpost haha that guy seems awesome, at least it's a daily mail article that allows its target to be taken or left

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

and by 'awesome' i mean 'awesome for a serving MP'

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

i think he's one of the guys who was on the drugs advisory panel w/ david nutt?

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

he was at college with michael foot and me. sound chap.

louis, you should definitely vote swp. you're exactly their demographic.

― gfunkboy (history mayne), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

the sad thing is that i probably am these days

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

"these days"?

― gfunkboy (history mayne), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

well who else is gonna vote for 'em other than impoverished ideologues who've been chewed up and spat out by systems of privilege

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

I'm sure you could still wangle a career in advertising or PR.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

It's a hop, skip and a jump to the front bench from there.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

stop waving that cardboard satan in my face

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

"If you see your mom this weekend, be sure to tell her THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER! THATCHER!"

― might seem normal but is actually (snoball), Thursday, 11 March 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

twitter doesn't really have much except someone asking whether she had a stroke 2 days ago

I looked at this and found that the 'someone' you're talking about is the drummer out of Dananananaykroyd.

― James Mitchell, Friday, 12 March 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)

haha

― nakhchivan, Friday, 12 March 2010 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

@GaryCaldwell5 Heard you marked Torres out of the game. What about marking the Tories out of the General Election...?

this isn't the drummer from D is it now

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Friday, 12 March 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Defcon III: Lady Thatcher admitted to hospital

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

Seems like she did a lot of worse things she could have admitted to.

― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago)

I've a magnum of champagne on ice waiting, just in case.

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago)

To break over her head if she leaves?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago)

Well, should the circumstances present themselves, yes. Or to drink if she makes it out without a staph infection.

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

Alternatively, you could use it to christen the boat you bought specifically to run her down with.

― The Flamoboyant Magic of Gunter and Ernst (EDB), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

(purchasing boat)

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

By contrast, both their Conservative predecessors, Sir John Major and Baroness Thatcher, received invitations. Lady Thatcher declined on health grounds although Sir John will be present when Prince William marries Kate Middleton.

Here's hoping for an Easter heatwave / street party trestle table accident.

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 24 April 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

simulcast of the royal wedding and maggie's state funeral?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 24 April 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

Two services at once! That church is big enough.

― StanM, Sunday, 24 April 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

It could be called a wedderal or a Funding

― StanM, Sunday, 24 April 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

A national celebration! Oh and a wedding.

― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Sunday, 24 April 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

Join the Facebook campaign to get Wills 'n' Kate to pick Hefner for the first dance at the reception.

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 24 April 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

xpost: you may kiss the dust

― StanM, Sunday, 24 April 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

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