April 11, 2005
DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE:
Thatcher steps out at lap-dance club (news.com.au, 12apr05)
MARGARET Thatcher, the former British prime minister, has made a rare public appearance for her beloved Conservative Party - at a glitzy London lap-dancing club.Mrs Thatcher, 79, turned up at Stringfellow's for a Tory fund-raising event ahead of the May 5 general election toting her trademark handbag, the Daily Telegraph and The Sun newspapers reported.
"Margaret Thatcher has always been a heroine of mine, so I was genuinely humbled to welcome her to the club," said mulleted clubowner Peter Stringfellow, 64, who is usually surrounded by buxom blonde twentysomethings.
"I was just in awe of the woman."
Can any straight male say he hasn't imagined a scenario much like this at least once? Posted by Orrin Judd at April 11, 2005 9:35 PM
You're joking, right?
Posted by: ghostcat at April 11, 2005 10:16 PMNo, April 1 was two weeks ago.
Posted by: jim hamlen at April 11, 2005 11:15 PMYes.
Posted by: joe shropshire at April 11, 2005 11:26 PMI dunno, read the Diaries of Alan Clark, a former Tory MP who served in Thatcher gvts, and a man who made Clinton look celibate -- he was absolutely besotted with Thatcher, thought her the sexiest woman he'd ever met.
Actually do read his diaries in any case, they're very good.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 11, 2005 11:49 PMYou do realize that Eric, Julia, and Margaret are all the same person, don't you?
Posted by: joe shropshire at April 12, 2005 12:11 AMI happen to be drawn to strong women, but all else is never equal. Not even close, in this instance.
Posted by: ghostcat at April 12, 2005 12:12 AM"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day..."
Posted by: Matt Murphy at April 12, 2005 12:56 AMMatt, don't do that to Orrin. It's unnecessarily cruel.
Posted by: Peter B at April 12, 2005 6:17 AMI don't understand why we have to think about highly intelligent, accomplished mentally-tough women in a sexual manner. It is true that I could easily imagine myself happily married to Margaret Thatcher or Jeane Kirkpatrick or several women I know professionally in academia and the private sector, whose intellect and mental discipline is beyond dispute. But I don't have those Daisy Fuentes fantasies about them.
Posted by: bart at April 12, 2005 11:32 AMDaisy is a conservative too.
Posted by: oj at April 12, 2005 11:49 AMBart:
The question is, could these women imagine themselves married to you?
Posted by: jim hamlen at April 12, 2005 12:20 PMIn Hell.
Posted by: at April 12, 2005 12:24 PMWouldn't really be Hell if you couldn't hear Bart yapping over the loudspeakers, now would it?
Posted by: joe shropshire at April 12, 2005 12:56 PMJim,
If you knew anything about demographics among professional people in urban areas, particularly in the Jewish community, you wouldn't have to ask that question. At 40, my prospects are infinitely better than they were at 30. My educational and professional attainments, my culture and my willingness, if not insistence, to do the shopping and the cooking, start to matter, moving me up the marriage chart at light speed.
Posted by: bart at April 12, 2005 1:23 PMJoe,
To paraphrase Harry Truman, 'I'm telling the truth, you just think it's Hell.'
Posted by: bart at April 12, 2005 1:25 PMIf Liza Minnelli needs another.
Posted by: oj at April 12, 2005 2:34 PM