[hummingbird]

Who can forget the image of Mother Theresa being carried aloft through the streets of Calcutta in a simple, yet beautiful, Indian style funeral procession? Juxtapose that with the ululating hysteria taking place in Britain and the Princess Di thing looks like an absurdity (replete with Elton John rewriting a song he wrote for Marilyn Monroe)!

It was so unreal. I felt like the world had turned upside down. The images and emotions displayed seemed so disconnected.

[GipperGal]

It was so unreal. I felt like the world had turned upside down. The images and emotions displayed seemed so disconnected.

I know. Do you remember that just the day before Mother Theresa died, Michael Douglas was on either Leno or David Letterman's show, and he was commenting about the hysteria in Britain and said, "If Mother Theresa were to die would she get this much attention?"

And we got the answer to that the next day.

It was surreal. I remember watching Elton John play "Candle in the Wind" at Princess Di's funeral and thinking, "this is like a bad episode of the Simpsons!" It was so utterly ridiculous.