Mourners pay respects to Hillary

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7199496.stm

Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel stand behind Sir Edmund Hillary's casket in Holy Trinity Cathedral
The body of Sir Edmund Hillary will lie in state for 24 hours

Mourners in Auckland
Hundreds of New Zealanders paid their respects to Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to scale Mount Everest, ahead of his state funeral on Tuesday.

Mourners gathered at Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral to file past his body as it lay in state.

[Kucinich4America]

1. I gotta stop eating so much popcorn

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[havocmom]

3. Wish we could set a web camera up in this one

and catch the expressions of DUers when the page loads :rofl:

[DJ13]

2. This morning CNN's ticker had a running headline that read:

"Thousands pay respects to Hillary"

I was laughing my ass off.

[Hugabear]

4. Okay, you sucked me in

I assumed it was some sort of morbid mock ceremony by either anti-Hillary Democrats, or a bunch of rethugs.

[formercia]

5. Everyone needed a good laugh today.

Especially the Brits.

[roguevalley]

6. RIP, Sir Edmund. RIP.

[formercia]

7. He was a great man

He made it the hard way.

There were no ladders to cross the crevasses and climb the walls.

[roguevalley]

9. what he and the sherpas did was astonishing. Rather like the first

time someone broke the sub four minute mile. a sparkling moment of originality not to be trumped in a world full of poseurs.

[tigereye]

10. I don't think he left quite as much of a mess behind, either....

;)


on edit, I mean the mountaineer type mess, compared to mountaineers today.

[B Calm]

8. Mods deleted one of my posts about Bush being shot in the head in Texas.

But like this one, it was a real story about a guy named Bush being shot in the head. As thin skinned as some are around here, I'm surprised your post has not been deleted too!