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Originally posted by Doug
The pooh-pooh, who cares about some old rich lady dying talk is really rude, disrespectful, and unwelcome. I'm not particularly well-read in a literary sense, so I can't say it's Shakespeare, although it could be from Julius Caesar, but someone famous once said or wrote "don't speak ill of the dead."
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Definately. And, yes, I think that was J.C., but I could be wrong.
The queen Mum was an amazing women who was really the last of her kind, a royal with some actual influence and real respect from officials in her day. Her passing is symbolic of something some might say happened a long time ago, the death of the "real" monarchy in england, as far as power goes. That's a few hundred years of history right there, in a country where the past is apparently VERY important to everyone (I swear, every frigging inn on the side of the rode in you people's country has been there since the last ice age. Ooh, sorry, musn't poke fun at the political ally...)