Margaret Thatcher passed away?

[Elwood P Dowd]

A friend just called me and said she passed away earlier tonight. Still searching these internets to confirm.

[Dash87]

1. Really? That would be bizarre timing (New Year). If true, RIP, I guess

[Ken Burch]

21. Perhaps someone told Stewie that Maggie was his mother...

n/t.

[sharesunited]

2. Only when you see her Wikipedia article updated.

That's the most authoritative public reference I know of for this kind of thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. If it's true, it's nowhere on the Web

Seems like it would be in Google News, at minimum, but it's not.

[htuttle]

4. That explains all the Ewoks dancing outside my window

I thought the fireworks were for New Years.

[blogslut]

7. Okay

That shouldn't be so funny. Why am I laughing?

[Luminous Animal]

34. I'm laughing, too. A lot.

[Ian David]

37. CRACKERJACK JUNCTION sings THE EWOK CELEBRATION SONG

CRACKERJACK JUNCTION sings THE EWOK CELEBRATION SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN62wqBdbxA

[HughBeaumont]

5. Nothing on BBC, and they'd likely be the first to know.

[Ken Burch]

20. Perhaps they've been barred from annoucing the death

until after the casket has been interred.

[katanalori]

6. I don't think so.....

There is a website in the UK called (believe it or not) "Is Margaret Thatcher Dead yet?"

They keep track of this issue, and as of now, they report that she is still alive.

http://isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/

[hlthe2b]

28. OMG... that is rough!

(and admittedly, a teensey bit amusing)...'Goin to hell, aren't we? :evilgrin:

[napi21]

8. It's terrile to say, but I haven't heard about her in so long I thought

she had already died.

[Ken Burch]

9. The anti-Thatcher majority in Britain is prepared for the event, however:

[Unrepentant Fenian]

18. Ken, Love the pic! Thanks

[Tx4obama]

10. I just found an article BUT is it fake? See link below

http://socyberty.com/government/former-british-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-dead-at-85/

[Ken Burch]

12. This was seen on a UK website in early November:

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. That's the only one I've found. (nm)

[Ken Burch]

11. When it happens, I fully expect the Metropolitan Police to teargas the large crowds of people

who will be marching through the streets of London singing "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!"

[Ken Burch]

13. Sick part is, when she DOES die

the prez and The Big Dog AND Hillary will all go to London to attend her funeral.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

15. Tá Gráin Agam Ar Thatcher Fós!...

I won't be attending her funeral, but I've been looking forward to it for a long time.

[Canuckistanian]

17. I'll be attending her grave when I visit

With a full bladder.

[Ken Burch]

19. Well, you can still give her a proper Irish wake....

You know, the kind where everyone gets pissed and shouts abuse at the corpse(which is propped up in the midst of the festivities)!

In your case, you'd have to make an effigy, but then you could make the event non-denominational by giving it a funeral pyre.

[Agent William]

35. As an unrepentant Unionist....

I heartily concur.

I recently moved to W. Yorkshire and apparently people here were once employed in sectors other than making coffee and tending hotels. I know people across Northern Britain/Ireland will welcome that day too.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. And I coincidentally happen to be drinking champagne

[katanalori]

22. Not yet, but they are planning the funeral anyway............

Saturday, Jan 01 2011 6 a.m.

"Although Lady Thatcher is currently in good health – she was with the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday – The Mail on Sunday has learned that plans are under way for her funeral, when the time eventually comes, to take place at St Paul’s Cathedral."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034634/Lady-Thatcher-honoured-State-funeral.html#ixzz19lPmtq3d

[Tx4obama]

24. That article was written when she was 82, she is 85 now. n/t

[Forkboy]

23. It would be a great way to start the year, but can we confirm?

I suppose I should be nicer. It would be a sucky way to start the year for douchebags, authoritarians and asshats. Thatcher would have been big on pre-emptive things, so I'm sure she could appreciate my pre-emptive rejoicing over her death.

[bananas]

25. "Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9dlG-iq3F8

[Ken Burch]

31. Maggie Thatcher having a one-night stand with Rod Stewart?

All I can say to that image is......

[Tx4obama]

26. Well this is interesting

I went over to an Italian newspaper to see if there was anything there and there wasn't,
but I noticed that Governor Bill Richardson made the FRONT PAGE, towards the middle.

"Il governatore del New Mexico: «No alla grazia postuma per Billy the Kid»"
Translation is: The Governor of New Mexico: "No to the posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid.

It's always fun seeing what news from the USA they post over seas ;)

Front Page:http://www.corriere.it/
Article: http://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_dicembre_31/billy-the-kid_8d8d58e8-1507-11e0-aafd-00144f02aabc.shtml

[Poll_Blind]

27. Just confirmed this is NOT the case. This pic from earlier this evening at an event:

PB

[musette_sf]

29. +1

[Ken Burch]

30. What makes it even better is that that creature is "Tory Blue".

n/t.

[NuttyFluffers]

32. That would explain the fireworks across the world...

but alas, I need more proof.

[Zax2me]

33. Agreed.

You need more proof.
No, you need proof of any kind.

[malaise]

36. Well given her state of dementia

she really doesn't know if she's alive.
There's nothing on BBC.

[LeftishBrit]

38. She hasn't - it would be all over the British news if she had