Dear Americans. I am British. And I'd just like to say...

[sibelian]

...that I'll believe she's dead when they've published a picture of her corpse with Dorothy's house on top of it.

Ciao!

[haikugal]

1. LOL.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. LOL!

[LittleBlue]

3. ...

[Fawke Em]

4. There's a FB Group for that:

A Facebook campaign has been launched following the death of Baroness Thatcher to make Judy Garland song 'Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead' number one.

Members posted a link to the song and urged people to download it in a bid to send it rocketing to the top of the charts.

It features in the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz and is sung by Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, the Munchkins and Glinda the Good Witch, played by Billie Burke.

They sing it as they celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the East after Dorothy "dropped a house on her".

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-facebook-campaign-1818341

https://www.facebook.com/groups/372787542835065/?fref=ts

[zeemike]

54. For those not familiar with the song...

The lyrics...


DING DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD
Munchkins;
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
Mayor;
As Mayor of the Munchkin City, In the County of the Land of Oz, I welcome you most regally.
Barrister;
But we've got to verify it legally, to see
Mayor;
To see?
Barrister;
If she
Mayor;
If she?
Barrister;
Is morally, ethic'lly
Father No.1;
Spiritually, physically
Father No. 2;
Positively, absolutely
Munchkins;
Undeniably and reliably Dead
Coroner;
As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her.
And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
Mayor;
Then this is a day of Independence For all the Munchkins and their descendants
Barrister;
If any.
Mayor;
Yes, let the joyous news be spread The wicked Old Witch at last is dead!

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[Matariki]

74. Sing it high, sing it low.

[KansDem]

5. Ahhh, 'fess up! You just want the shoes!

[Cleita]

6. Maybe the Brits should burn the body just to make sure. n.t.

[sibelian]

9. "Cough, cough! What a smell of sulphur!"

We'd need respirators.

[Jackpine Radical]

24. An enterprise in which there are a lot of stakeholders.

I wonder who is left to swing the mallet.

[awoke_in_2003]

49. We have to nuke it from orbit...

it's the only way to be sure.

[olegramps]

90. She has already polluted the earth far too much with her evil hatred of the working class.

[Marrah_G]

7. ROFL!

[L0oniX]

8. But who will get the ruby slippers?

[joeybee12]

10. Get the photo quick before her feet shrivel up! nt

[backscatter712]

11. Make sure you hammer a wooden stake through her heart!

Don't forget to cut off her head and stuff garlic in her mouth!

[sibelian]

14. Pf! With acid for blood?

Anyway, knowing her it'd probably bring her back to life.

[amuse bouche]

12. TeeHee

I am having great fun reading the comments on Huffpo U.K

Even though it is heavily censored, the Brits humor shines through

[tavalon]

13. Clearly, you Brits loved her the way we loved Reagan

Proof positive that Devils come in any gender.

[Whisp]

18. and we had such love for Mulroney.

evil shits.

[shenmue]

15. :)

You win.

[LiberalEsto]

16. Wooden stake

through the chest area where most humans have a heart.

[ColesCountyDem]

32. Exactly what my father said, when Richard Nixon died....

"I'll believe the sonofabitch is dead when they show me the corpse with a wooden stake driven through his heart!".

Cracked me up.

[SwankyXomb]

83. She did indeed have a kind heart

and she kept it in a glass jar on the shelf.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Have a pint on me.

[Greybnk48]

20. LOL! Agreed.

Not a fan of her or our darling boy Saint Ronnie Raygun.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Funny, considering all you've done since is water down her policies.

[sibelian]

26. ME? I water PLANTS, darling.

My influence on the policies of the United Kingdom consists of roughly THIS:

X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X (with maybe one or two more if I live beyond 80...)

Democracy in action! Yay!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. So you didn't join in the fun back then?

[sibelian]

35. Yes! That's me in the wig!

[amuse bouche]

45. Can you tell me how much was the tax, what it was for and why

were people rioting over it?

Loving your posts

[Blue Idaho]

73. Maggie Maggie Maggie - Dead Dead Dead!

Ronny Ronny Ronny - Dead Dead Dead!

Now let's burry their disastrous policies once and for all.

[pink-o]

22. I was singing that the minute I heard the news!

I lived in England in the 70s and 80s and watched her destroy the country the way her BF Reagan did to this one.

I posted this on FB: I refuse to shed a tear for her passing. I cried enough for the Brits who lost their homes, their jobs and died of AIDS because of her. She can go straight to hell.

[AtomicKitten]

23. she and Ken Lay are squirreled away somewhere

[malaise]

25. LOL

[steve2470]

27. witch under house :)

[zentrum]

44. Great pic but you miss the point.

She is not dead. Thatchery lives on. She's a witch who hasn't had the proper stake driven in yet.

[steve2470]

47. Thatchery does live on, yes nt

[amuse bouche]

28. Hey sibelian

would you kindly explain this post from HP?

"First time i have ever agreed with Joey Barton , virtually no one outside the south east of England is sad today , she stole from us and her legacy lives on."

[sibelian]

39. Joey Barton's a thuggy footballer. Bit of a tearaway.

I suppose he must have said something nasty about her... which would fit, she was horrible to the North of England.

[RetroLounge]

78. I love that you used "tearaway"

I used to be in a band called The Tearaways...

Hardly ever hear that word here in the states.



RL

[valerief]

29. And Ken Lay stuffed in the chimney! nt

[lobezen]

30. That is the funniest thing

I have read/seen/heard today! THANK YOU!

[IDemo]

33. "Bring out your dead!"

[Aerows]

34. I hope they

take a picture of her melting when the water hits her.

I know, it's awful to speak ill of the dead, but I have my moments when I'm awful. I'll try to restrain myself in a few minutes, and I'm not into grave dancing.

I'll be back and quite remorseful after I've done a jig.

[tavalon]

36. But at least you will have exercised

Exercise is good, I'm told.

[Aerows]

38. I'm feeling

a bit grey in this situation, and the good, white, shiny doesn't suit this situation LOL. I'd feel similarly when news of Bush and Cheney's passing hit my ears.

I'm sure they will run into her in hell.

[Cleita]

42. In the case of a heartless leader with blood on their hands it's okay. n/t

[Aerows]

56. Margaret Thatcher

was certainly that.

Though she didn't approach the evil I am discovering that was Reagan. Both were on the same side of destroying people.

[Cleita]

58. She did calloused terrible things to the Irish. n/t

[Aerows]

67. Okay

It's a toss up then which one was more terrible. Either way, they both were some evil people.

[HipChick]

82. The got her back...they tried to blow her up while she was sitting on the loo..

[olegramps]

91. Her grave could be a first class place for a public urinal.

[Diclotican]

37. sibelian

sibelian

Some place in hell - She is waking up - and wonder why she was not allowed into heaven

Diclotican

[CBHagman]

40. Mock the Week on a prospective Thatcher funeral.

This from a while back. Be sure to catch the part with Frankie Boyle (around 30 seconds in).

[truebrit71]

41. Fucking brilliant!!!

We can dig a hole so deep we can hand her over to Satan personally...

[malaise]

62. Damn that's hilarious

[rhett o rick]

68. Thanks for posting. nm

[Nevernose]

69. Really funny

The part about spending the funeral money on giving everyone in Scotland a shovel was priceless.

[joesdaughter]

72. That's funny n/t

[zentrum]

43. A post of beauty!

[wryter2000]

46. You win the internets! n/t

n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

48. ...

on edit: oops, someone already got it.

[riqster]

50. I'll be having a sip of Dalwhinnie tonight in honor of this day.

Maybe two sips.

Maybe three.

Maybe an Old Peculier too.

[adieu]

51. And what is so hateful about

Annette Funiccello? Was it because she liked chunky Jif instead of the smooth?

[KauaiK]

52. HAHAHAHAHAHA

OMG, I am laughing out loud.....

[notadmblnd]

53. Oh but dont cha know, you can't bad mouth people here when they're dead

Only when they're still alive is one entitled to say mean, rotten things else the moral, self rightous brigade will arrive to shame and blame.

Death is scared here on DU. What will the Freepers think? Must not offend Freepers

[LittleGirl]

55. Ciao!

ha ha...my british husband will love this. thanks for the chuckle.

[Liberalynn]

57. I sang the Ding Dong song when her compatriot Ronnie died

I subsituted "bastard" for witch. I am singing it for her today. Hopefully they are roasting together!

[sibelian]

63. Yay!

The world is a slightly better place...

[Carolina]

59. LOL and K&R

[Auntie Bush]

60. +101

[RoccoR5955]

61. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Which old witch,
Mag the Hag of course!

As posted to my facebook page this morning.

[sibelian]

64. 106 recs!! Gosh.

the most ever, for me... yay!

[RainDog]

65. ...

[renate]

76. darn you....

... now I have to spend the next three hours listening to the English Beat on YouTube. Thanks for the memories! (And I'll be darned if that music isn't INFINITELY better than the dreck kids listen to these days.)

[pkdu]

79. Couldn't agree more ....and DaveW and the gang are still touring today!..as good as ever!

[kurtzapril4]

89. Says you!

Because when I was listening to English Beat back in the day, the old hippies were saying the same thing you did, LOL!

[idwiyo]

66. K&R funeral next week, see you in London at the party!

[Posteritatis]

70. Think whoever destroyed all the horcruxes will get a statue someplace? (nt)

[SoCalDem]

71. here ya go..

more @
http://b3ta.com/challenge/thatcherrip/

[blkmusclmachine]

75. Obama loves her.

[DonCoquixote]

77. do like you did to Ollie Cromwell

Cut the head off and display it as a warning to all.

[bobduca]

80. Shame on You! Don't you know we revise history whenever a right winger dies?

Obama described Thatcher as "one of the great champions of freedom and liberty" and a true friend to the US. Former president George HW Bush and the Republican House speaker John Boehner also paid generous tributes.

[wickerwoman]

81. The worst part is that Morrissey's greatest song is now obsolete.

[dipsydoodle]

85. As is Morrissey

Obsolete.

[TomClash]

84. LOL

[John2]

86. She was like any other

human with flaws. She did what she thought was right. She was no Saint just like Ronnie. The Press and Right try to make her one. They mourn her passing but many who she offended don't. I doubt President Obama even knew her but he gets caught up in this nostalgia crap. She is a hero of the Reagonites. So they want to build her legacy just like with him. They both rode in on their white horses and single handledy destroyed the Soviet Union for freedom if you believe it.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

87. ROFL! n/t

[IrishAyes]

88. Good for you!

You're the kind of Brit I adore. Don't let anything I've said about a certain troll lately put you off. I'm really a halfway decent person on alternate days if the weather holds, the coffee holds out, and ... and ... well, the list can grow long, so I'll stop right here and just say good for you. An enemy of my enemy is a friend to me.

[Brigid]

92. May I award you . . .

The internets for the day.

[Big_Harry]

93. Thatcher the witch

Hi I from Scotland I worked in the coal mines in the 80s she shut all the pits in Scotland in 85 putting over 100,000 people out of work and did bat a eye she also shut all the ship building down with a lose of 50,000 jobs also the steel mills with a loss of 30,000 jobs but she take all the taxes from our oli and whiskey which are. The biggest exports from Briton she hates the Scots and we hate her

[sibelian]

95. Hi Harry, I'm also Scottish.

We won't forget her in hurry. She was just pure destruction.

[AnneD]

94. And in honour of

Roger Ebert, I give that a