Obit: thatcher (not) dead

Subject: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:40 PM

news just in see here

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:42 PM

so what....

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:47 PM

She certainly saw the world very differently to the way I do. I hope her passing was painless and that her friends and relatives are left to grieve in peace.
I hope very much that this thread does not quickly degenerate into tirades of abuse from either her admirers or from those who are baffled by her admirers (like myself). There is no need to bear malice towards the departed.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:49 PM

Ditto

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:50 PM

Ditto the ditto.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Janie
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:51 PM

LOL. Took me a minute to realize it was send-up.

Janie

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: mandotim
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:56 PM

Sick, but funny. Nice one Shields Folk; had me going for a minute there! Carry on.
Tim from Bit on the Side

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 02:59 PM

And ditto that, too.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: sapper82
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:03 PM

And the lefties call the Tories sick???

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Firecat
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:14 PM

That is not funny. I happen to admire Mrs Thatcher and the thought that anyone could joke about her death is sick!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: mandotim
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:19 PM

Nothing funnier than an outraged Tory...
tim

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:21 PM

That IS kind of sick.

Funny... but sick.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,Eddie Bunting
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:23 PM

Great news well accepted in Ireland here tonight. I can now dispense of the effigy of her with the pins through the heart.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:38 PM

no one is more upset about this than me!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:43 PM

Lady Thatcher had suffered a serious heart attack but most guests thought she was choking on a bone. One man ran behind her and started punching her in the back to no avail.


Are they really sure he was trying to help?

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,Eddie Bunting
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 03:57 PM

So so sad to hear it's not true. If she was a pet dog they would have had her put down by now.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 04:23 PM

I did not have time to read further, as I am doing a translation at the moment. I got a bit suspicious, when I Googled and found no other stories. I guess it does not matter so much if I look a bit of a fool.
As a retired octegenarian, she is hardly in any position to do me any harm now. Enough said.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,Busy Girl
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 04:34 PM

Been too busy today helping with real social problems and real people to hear any "formal" news. Glad you've got enough spare time to contemplate inaginary news though. Got taken in for a bit, read it and was "fooled". Not that funny really - can't remember laughin. It's gonna happen one day anyway, inevitably. Can't be bothered one way or the other really. Well done!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 05:08 PM

This must be from those same idiots that ran the story awhile back about Kong being rescuscitated after over 65 years in cryogenic freezing. Dimwits! Haven't they got anything better to do? I have to admit, though, the Thatcher story is quite a bit funnier.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 05:34 PM

Ditto that.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,the big man
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 05:53 PM

cracking that ...now who can I send it to drat if only Sir Edward was still alive ...or is he?

well done Sheilds Folk and you from such a Tory strong hold as well!!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: GUEST,then big man
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 05:56 PM

how can I send the blue clicky thing to somebody?

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher dead
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 06:20 PM

This thread should be expunged unless (HOAX) is appended to the title.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 06:48 PM

well you've spoiled it now you boring sods

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:02 PM

Your thread was in bad taste. Also, it belonged in BS ya twit.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: number 6
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:05 PM

Sick .... and shameful.

sIx

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:23 PM

yes I thought that of thatcher too

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:38 PM

As I have said before, may she die slowly and in pain, and spend a long time in hell.

I will add now, I hope it is soon.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 07:43 PM

When I was "caught out" by the good news I turned to my wife and said today is a good day, only to find I had been cruely tricked. But afterwards I thought it would be good to share that fleeting moment of satisfaction with the rest of you.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: number 6
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 08:47 PM

That's what I'm saying Shields ....tricked ... sick, and absolutely shameful.

sIx

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 08:48 PM

Put the fooking thing in BS!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Shields Folk
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 08:56 PM

tricked.........yes
sick......I was when I realised that it was a hoax
shameful........not a bit

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: GUEST,Frazer Irwin
Date: 04 Nov 05 - 11:11 PM

She is a bad person (yes they do exist, sadly).
She ruined public services and ruined many lives, also.
However why did her advisers not suggest she get her teeth done sooner? Many think it was her mouth which finally drove her mad.

Frazer

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 03:50 AM

Can you lot ( ie those wishing her a painful death etc) please make your minds up, and come up with a concise list of those you hate, and confining all your pointless bitching about them to one thread? May I suggest 'Popular views of the Bush administration'

I'm Guessing Thacher, Regan, Bush (W) and Blair would proably be the top four. Any more?

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 04:27 AM

Tony...light of my life, fire of my loins.... a hate figure?

Yeh maybe you you've got a poiint.
still thi-ngs can only get better!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: GUEST,the big man
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 04:36 AM

so how do i put the link into an email?

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 04:49 AM

As someone who hates Thatcher with a vengeance I found this ' joke '
very sick, it was also extremely funny.

eric

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Stu
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 06:13 AM

Ah well, put the champagne on ice for a while longer . . .

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Paul Burke
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 06:13 AM

If she does ever die, it won't be from a heart problem. She never had one.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 07:22 AM

Funny but sick - also, I wonder what her lawyers might make of such a thread in the public domain, should this come to their attention...

Oh well. But it was funny.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 07:23 AM

you got me. :-)

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Tam the man
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 07:34 AM

It's a pity that isn't true, I had all my flags out to have a party

I thought all my dreams had come true

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 07:38 AM

Not the first time someone has pretended someone was dead on a Mudcat thread. A very extraordinary thing to do, in my opinion. It's hardly a clever hoax, naturally people will believe it if you say it. Very curious, the motivation, I can't really understand it at all. Is it meant to be funny? Or vindictive? It just doesnt seem to work for me.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: Cllr
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 09:04 AM

As an admirer of Thatcher I will confess to a being taken in for a few seconds until realising the adress shown wasn't BBC. I wasn't offended and my response might have provided a wry chuckle to the original poster not that he could have seen it. I think that greg has got the way of it in his last post I don't quite get the motivation behind it I certainly would not trust mudcat in future which is a shame as I check mudcat far more often than the BBC newspage. I am relieved that the thread title has been changed.

On a different note I do believe that anyone who wishes such ill harm on another living being can not be a very nice person. Such malice being bared in a community such as this is discordant to the general values expressed within my experience of the folk world. I think it says more about the poster than about the content of the posting. Cllr

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 09:11 AM

Sick and disgusting, but normal for this forum.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 09:23 AM

Well, I didn't see this thread till now, after the title picked up the (not). Otherwise you'd have got me too. What a shame - still they say that life often imitates art, so maybe that will happen soon. One can always hope!

GUEST, the big man, just highlight the URL, right click and copy, then open up your email, right click again in the body of the email and paste. It will automatically become a link - at least that's what happens for me in Outlook Express. Do all the email systems work like that?

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: RichM
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 10:12 AM

The English sense of humour (humor) has always been a mystery to me...I guess you have to be born to it!

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 10:18 AM

Hip Hip Hoo....oh never mind.

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 05:22 PM

Through some cosmic fluke, Reagan, Thatcher, and Gorbachev all died on the same day. Off they went to the gates of Heaven. Peter, seeing that these were all VIPs, sent them straight off to the Almighty.

God, sitting on his throne, called up Reagan.

"Ronald, my son, what have you to say for yourself?"

"I tried to improve the US economy," replied Reagan, "and I did my best to benefit the nation."

"Very well, my son, come up and sit beside me at my right hand."

And so Reagan sat at his right.

God then called up Gorbachev.

"Mikhail, my son, what have you to say for yourself?"

"I tried to make Soviet society more open," replied Gorbachev, "and I did my best to improve the Soviet economy."

"Very well, my son, come up and sit beside me at my left hand."

And so Gorbachev sat at his left.

God then called up Thatcher.

"Margaret, my daughter, what have you to say for yourself?"

"Only two things," replied Thatcher. "First of all, I'm not your daughter. Secondly, get out of my chair!"

Subject: RE: Obit: thatcher (not) dead
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 05 - 05:25 PM

Old joke about an old person, neither of whom have improved with age.