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"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" re-enters the Charts following death of MT

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  • #92
    space_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 663 ✭✭✭space_man


    Nodin wrote: »
    No, you'll just wait for somebody to desecrate his grave and agree it was "karma".
    Weathering wrote: »
    Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has described comments made by Baroness Thatcher as "unabashedly racist".

    http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22087702



  • #93
    southdublin87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭southdublin87


    Haha Thats gas!


  • #94
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Wait till Adams dies, I hate the man with a vengance, but I won't be celebrating his death. I will however be thinking back over his words (dubbed & not dubbed) when he was banned from the airwaves in the 80s. I will ponder on what his contribution was to society as a whole over his lifetime, and just thinking about the good (making peace) in the latter half of his life, and the bad (reaking death & destruction for the 1st half), but I won't be celebrating his death, not now that he's mellowed & taken the political path.

    One would almost think that Gerry operated in a vacumn. Your ability to ignore whole herds of elephants trampling through a given room is getting more and more fascinating. Jim McAllister was on the telly last night giving us his opinion on the GFA, one would think that the venerable Jim misses the violence, he wanted the GFA repealed because it didn't fit his vision of democracy.
    If you want to succumb to your 'real' feelings when Gerry shuffles his mortal coil, feel free, you will not find real democrats stopping you or restricting you. We do reserve the right to disagree with you though.


  • #95
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I'd say a better, possibly more subtle, Costello song is Shipbuilding:



    or the rawer, more poignant Robert Wyatt version. If you can listen to this and not be moved, there is no hope for you.



    That said, for every copy of Ding Dong... sold, a few pence will go to the estate of EY Harburg, the lyricist, who was driven out of Hollywood by the Red Scare blacklists. She would have loved that.


  • #96
    Mr Tibbs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Mr Tibbs


    I see our government will send Pat Rabbitte to represent them at Mrs T funeral. Perfect choice an extreme right wing so called member of the Labour party attending the pinup conservative model's funeral. I heard Pat was broken hearted when he was told Mr T was dead. He said with tears in his eyes that Mr T was his favourite action hero. Hope he doesn't make a fool of himself over in HollywoodLondon.


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  • #97
    gurramok
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    What number is the song at now? Heard no.4 as of Wednesday night in the UK.


  • #98
    LordSutch
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    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Your ability to ignore whole herds of elephants trampling through a given room is getting more and more fascinating.

    Please clarify "herds of elephants".


  • #99
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    WayneMolloy wrote: »
    Nope.

    Nodin IS a radical leftist. When I saw he was the last person who posted on this thread, I already knew the comment wasnt going to be complimentary. Dealing with an ideology rather than an individual.

    LOL, you're funny Wayne. - ragging on another poster for "dealing with an ideology rather than an individual" - sure isn't that Hatcher did all her life, Be consistent - otherwise your posts are foolish. :D


  • #100
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Mr Tibbs wrote: »
    I see our government will send Pat Rabbitte to represent them at Mrs T funeral. Perfect choice an extreme right wing so called member of the Labour party attending the pinup conservative model's funeral. I heard Pat was broken hearted when he was told Mr T was dead. He said with tears in his eyes that Mr T was his favourite action hero. Hope he doesn't make a fool of himself over in HollywoodLondon.

    seriously???? that's laughable. Another nail in labour's coffin.


  • #101
    Mr Tibbs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Mr Tibbs


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    seriously???? that's laughable. Another nail in labour's coffin.

    All joking aside that is who the government has elected to go. I was shocked when I read this in the Indo. I suppose it will be easy to pick his head out among the funeral cortege.


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  • #102
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    Mr Tibbs wrote: »
    All joking aside that is who the government has elected to go. I was shocked when I read this in the Indo. I suppose it will be easy to pick his head out among the funeral cortege.

    he could have some principal and say NO! might get a bit of respect then.


  • #103
    Happyman42
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Please clarify "herds of elephants".

    Those herds are similar to those that trample all over McAllister's cozy sitting room... the idea that Adams had a 'conversion' from something bad to something good. He didn't, he achieved a society he and others (including Unionists and Loyalists) could live at peace in. He achieved this despite the likes of Thatcher and McAllister trying to shout NO at every turn.


  • #104
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    gurramok wrote: »
    What number is the song at now? Heard no.4 as of Wednesday night in the UK.

    Up to number 3 now, but still well behind the likely number 1

    http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/duke-dumont-trailed-by-pink-and-ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-in-race-to-number-1-2159/
    Ding Dong!… has climbed one place since yesterday’s Official Charts sales flash was published. From an initial sales gap of 16,000 copies on Wednesday, the track has closed in on the Number 1 by 2,000 copies per day with two days of the chart week left to run, but is still currently 12,000 copies behind Need U (100%).


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