Two great icons pass.

[pahoffm]

Two great icons passed today.

Margaret Thatcher
Whether you liked Thatcher or not, the influence of her policies affected Britain for the next 20-30 years.
A working/middle class girl who rose to top power.

Annette Funicello
You may need to be my generation or earlier, but Funicello's influence on a generation of TV & movie watching Baby Boomers was enormous.

Margaret Thatcher biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/margaret_thatcher

Annette Funicello
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002088/bio

 

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Never felt so old as when I read that Funicello was SEVENTY !!!

 

[SfB_AkA._DeLiCiOuS]

RIP

 

[TigerForce]

Two great icons passed today.

Margaret Thatcher
Whether you liked Thatcher or not, the influence of her policies affected Britain for the next 20-30 years.
A working/middle class girl who rose to top power.

Annette Funicello
You may need to be my generation or earlier, but Funicello's influence on a generation of TV & movie watching Baby Boomers was enormous.

Margaret Thatcher biography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/margaret_thatcher

Annette Funicello
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002088/bio

Sad to hear, especially Annette Funicello's decaying health over the last 20 years.

 

[TigerForce]

This Margaret Thatcher interview with George Negus is still a classic on how hard this woman was.

[youtube=560,315] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fFCucvf40 [/youtube]

 

[glantone]

'Ding dong the witch is dead' went to No1 in the iTunes chart, and No3 in the official UK chart.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/bbc-caves-thatcher-song-ding-dong

The UK Sun reports that some of the munchkins are not happy ....

 

[Chiang Mai Tiger]

Hated her with a passion. Her position on the apartheid Sth Africa and Nelson Mandela made her a racist, fascist 'B' in my book.

Also if it weren't for her, Rupert Murdoch would only be assistant editor of the Wagga Wagga Post today.