tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post4702839490358214455..comments2024-03-27T19:51:28.984-07:00Comments on The Burrow: RIP, Again, Times TwoAshleigh Burroughshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-74891506459431969192013-04-11T17:03:46.368-07:002013-04-11T17:03:46.368-07:00Her politics certainly were not mine, but I admire...Her politics certainly were not mine, but I admired her as a successful woman in a man's world. I'd like the Obama-haters to admire him as a good father and an eloquent speaker and "a real guy" even if they disagree with his politics.<br /><br />I love the image of a decorated wheelchair... Annette knew how to make smiles , didn't she?!<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-43725728813085003162013-04-10T17:09:03.471-07:002013-04-10T17:09:03.471-07:00Mrs. Thatcher's alignment with Mr. Reagon lowe...Mrs. Thatcher's alignment with Mr. Reagon lowered her in my esteem. Also, my Welsh family of miners didn't appreciate her politics. The movie confused me with the moving back-and-forth in time; maybe I didn't know enough of her history and got lost.<br /><br />Annette will always be a best friend, a big sister. It seems as though I remember a story about her decorating her wheelchair for her daughter's wedding.Hughes ap Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10069264462698564387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-7035700412623208562013-04-09T16:17:39.163-07:002013-04-09T16:17:39.163-07:00"Maundering"..... what a great word. An..."Maundering"..... what a great word. Annette always seemed to me to be the kind, cool girl, not the mean one. But, I will leave you to your musings over Doreen.<br /><br />As for Mrs. Thatcher, I didn't have to like her politics to admire her as a person. Her beliefs, though not mine, were well-reasoned and thoughtful. I could disagree with her respectfully.,<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-19445754242610055532013-04-09T12:55:34.517-07:002013-04-09T12:55:34.517-07:00Because I can never start a sentence with a constr...Because I can never start a sentence with a construction like, "As a woman, I...", I can never conclude it with something like "...admired/respected Margaret Thatcher." So I'm afraid I never developed much positive feeling at all towards her. (The movie did help me on that score.) Sorry -- speak ye not ill of the dead, all that -- I disappoint myself to sound so uncharitable.<br /><br />Annette, well, an awful big bundle of kidhood memories tied up with ANYONE on the original MMC. The one I had the biggest crush on was Doreen. (<a href="http://www.originalmmc.com/doreen.html" rel="nofollow">The troupe's Web site</a> speaks of "her merry, mobile face and engaging personality." Well, yeah, I suppose. Whatever. I just couldn't stop looking at her. That page also says, "her greatest popularity was with the sort of guys who don't write fan letters." All right, already. Guilty as charged.) But Annette? Cute/Pretty, girl-next-door, all that. Completely unobjectionable. And completely unapproachable. I think I could've made Doreen laugh, even while in elementary school. With Annette, I would have been mung-tongued and clumsy. I'd leave her to the guys whose hands never sweated. So hearing of her death was kind of like hearing of, I don't know... Jackie O's death, maybe.<br /><br />Boy, this is a maundering comment.JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-9413936295741685912013-04-09T08:08:02.887-07:002013-04-09T08:08:02.887-07:00As our politicians descend into screaming rhetoric...As our politicians descend into screaming rhetoric, I am continually reminded of Mrs. Thatcher's ability to sway a crowd with reason, thought, and a twinkle in her eye.<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-19384556790449509322013-04-09T08:06:30.077-07:002013-04-09T08:06:30.077-07:00I thought of Ronnie and Mrs. T suffering the same ...I thought of Ronnie and Mrs. T suffering the same way at the end, too, Rain. The news spoke of "a series of strokes" and I wondered about the absence of Alzheimers which had been reported years ago.....<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-45013249332368134962013-04-09T07:52:53.513-07:002013-04-09T07:52:53.513-07:00When I was a girl, my cousins and I would play in ...When I was a girl, my cousins and I would play in our big old barn whenever the whole family gathered at our farm. There were bales of hay and a swing rope. So we'd get up on those bales and swing out over the open floor before the swing returned us and the next kid got to do it. I was the oldest and always got to be Annette as we'd do the Mousketeer entrance. Spin and Marty was a big deal to my life and obviously had an influence that still lingers with my choices. I so wanted to be Spin's girlfriend but if I couldn't be, I was glad Annette did get to be. :) It is a release for her given her latter years but it came too early. At least Mrs. Thatcher got to live out a full old age lifespan although at the last evidently she wasn't all there because of Alzheimer's. Kind of ironic given Reagan's end also.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-42732720874582673342013-04-09T07:16:21.599-07:002013-04-09T07:16:21.599-07:00Rest in peace to two amazing women. I too didn'...Rest in peace to two amazing women. I too didn't agree with Thatcher's politics, but as a woman, I admired her so much. <br /><br />I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club. LOVED it as a kid. I loved the doors they would come out of. Just thought that was the neatest thing. My mom was a huge fan of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon and we watched the Beach Blanket movies. <br /><br />Thanks for the lovely eulogy for these two amazing women. <br /><br /><br />Megan xxxMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622415628314992252noreply@blogger.com