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Topic: Blair plans state funeral for Thatcher
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Doug
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posted 04 June 2006 06:35 PM
In case you need extra help maintaining a diet, read this article, it's guaranteed to reduce, perhaps even reverse your appetite:
quote: TONY Blair is backing a controversial plan to provide a state funeral for one of the Labour Party's most reviled enemies of recent decades: Margaret Thatcher.Scotland on Sunday can reveal that civil servants have been working for months on the details of Baroness Thatcher's funeral, even though there is no suggestion the 80-year-old is suffering from any life-threatening condition. But Blair believes Thatcher's eventual passing should be marked with the first state funeral for a commoner since Winston Churchill more than 40 years ago.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=824002006 Blech.
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Ken Burch
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posted 04 June 2006 08:52 PM
On the plus side, everyone who was in the anti-Thatcher popular vote majority can now begin planning the celebrations...I'd say it calls for a week of all-star concerts and jam sessions... fabulous street parties and bonfires...with free ganja all around! And parades of colliery bands from the closed pits of '85. It must mean the end of the pustulent old bag is coming soon. Rejoice, children, rejoice, for deliverance may be nigh! [ 04 June 2006: Message edited by: Ken Burch ]
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Paul Gross
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posted 04 June 2006 09:06 PM
Elvis Costellohas been waiting for over fiften years...excerpt from song: Tramp The Dirt Down quote:
I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain She spills with compassion, as that young childs Face in her hands she grips Can you imagine all that greed and avarice Coming down on that childs lipsWell I hope I dont die too soon I pray the lord my soul to save Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live Long enough to savour Thats when they finally put you in the ground Ill stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down When england was the whore of the world Margeret was her madam And the future looked as bright and as clear as The black tarmacadam Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't Haunted by every tiny detail cos when she held that lovely face in her hands All she thought of was betrayal
PS. When I first heard this song in the pre-google days I assumed "black tarmacadam" was some clever British historical or literary reference. I just googled now to discover that it is just the old fashioned/full term for tarmac. Oh well. [ 04 June 2006: Message edited by: Paul Gross ]
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