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Global Warming is an attention-seeking goon.

(Sin City art by Dave Follett)

UPDATE. Thanks to folks who enjoyed the column. Beats me why more columnists don’t think in terms of a big inviting empty space to be filled with whatever you want than in terms of word count.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/22/2007 at 08:55 PM
  1. Mr. Blair’s caught the Paco detective bug and to good effect too.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 22 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  2. Somehow I don’t think the warmenistas will appreciate the subtlety.......

    Posted by Louis on 2007 06 22 at 09:12 PM • permalink

  3. This was good news.
    I didn’t know I had a secretary.

    Classic.

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 22 at 09:27 PM • permalink

  4. I like the chickie

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 09:29 PM • permalink

  5. nice ass

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  6. Nice secretary, no doubt takes good dictation. Still got my heart set on Sheila, though. Whatever that two-bit gumshoe’s paying you, sweetheart, I’ll double it. (Offer also includes larger office, ocean views, quieter clientele, no second-hand smoke).

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 06 22 at 09:30 PM • permalink

  7. and a large couch, right Dminor?

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 09:31 PM • permalink

  8. How’s the compost, Cid? That garden bed must be erupting with all sorts of bloomers.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 06 22 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  9. #7 That couch is strictly for professional use, I’ll have you know.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 06 22 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  10. The luvvies and climate-change handwringers should be completely confused by this one.  Excellent!

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 22 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  11. bloomers...why hell yes...all over the place, emptied the Explorer out

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  12. Ripper!
    Was that Flannery, after a lil’ too much ‘sauce’ at the restaurant caper with Maggie Fulltoss?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 22 at 09:34 PM • permalink

  13. The secretary has a gun strapped to her thigh, and a bloody knife jammed into her desk. Kinda scary.

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 22 at 09:36 PM • permalink

  14. Now we know where 1.618 works.

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 06 22 at 09:36 PM • permalink

  15. This would’ve been even more perfect if Blair had said “Sod off, swampy” when booting Global Warming out of the office.

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 22 at 09:41 PM • permalink

  16. Hilarious!

    And Candy Andrea looks good in red.

    Posted by C.L. on 2007 06 22 at 09:42 PM • permalink

  17. Funny Dminor...had the same picture of her...when seeing that

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 09:44 PM • permalink

  18. Was it this David Follett that did the excellent art work?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 22 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  19. Holy climate change, Mr Blair

    Shouldn’t that be unholy?

    Posted by Pa Feral on 2007 06 22 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  20. Global Warming is an attention-seeking goon.

    Well, we already knew that.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 09:56 PM • permalink

  21. Nice, I like it.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 22 at 10:01 PM • permalink

  22. Everyone’s trying to get into the act! in a Jimmy Durante accent.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 22 at 10:04 PM • permalink

  23. LMAO, Paco

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 10:09 PM • permalink

  24. Oh. My. God.  That was bloody brilliant!*

    *Note:  RebeccaH is neither British nor Australian, therefore her use of “bloody” and “brilliant” is non-rote.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 22 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  25. Candy? CANDY!!!! CANDY!!!!!

    “To the BlAiR MoBiLe Blairman”

    Great Cartoon! 14:If I saw him in the Gym I’d jump on him!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 22 at 10:15 PM • permalink

  26. #20
    Rev Al, evangelist.

    Flummery will have to work on his poses, less wild eyes ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 22 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  27. What model of mower was it Tim? I’m in the market for one myself.

    Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2007 06 22 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  28. Hurry up with part 2 of Blair Cartoon....

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 22 at 10:19 PM • permalink

  29. That was pure Gold.  Who here wants a whole series?

    Posted by Kobaal on 2007 06 22 at 10:37 PM • permalink

  30. TIM B TIMB ..

    29 Yep, Can you use us as the characters or our names please in the next series? This would annoy Monica Attitude at the Alphabet Station......

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 22 at 10:41 PM • permalink

  31. Rushdie on the phone: ‘I’ve got a new book about carbon credits: Satanic Purses

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 22 at 10:43 PM • permalink

  32. Yes, and can you put my dot art on the wall of the cartoon please?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 22 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  33. Suddenly -

    It was my wife Brunhilde. This was good news. I didn’t know I had a wife.

    ‘GET R-R-R-RID OFF ZAT SCAR-R-RLET HUSSY OR I VILL FR-R-RY YOUR TESTICULATAS IN BOILINK PIGFAT!

    ‘Yes dear.’

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 06 22 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  34. So Glowball Warming is a sock puppet? Ya, I can see that.

    Posted by gajim on 2007 06 22 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  35. JonathanH

    ‘GET R-R-R-RID OFF ZAT SCAR-R-RLET HUSSY OR I VILL FR-R-RY YOUR TESTICULATAS IN BOILINK PIGFAT!

    And here, I thought you had wed, another New Zealander.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  36. All have a wonderful day, afternoon or evening...pick one.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 22 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  37. Freak. Ing. Awesome.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 06 22 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  38. #29: I’ll second that. Tim, did you draw the thing, too?

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 11:15 PM • permalink

  39. #38: Well, if I’d read the parenthetical under the post heading, I guess I’d already have known the answer to that question.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  40. How about a cartoon called Huckabee’s Heroes? Pound until tender, broil for thirty minutes (turning once), feed to dogs.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 11:21 PM • permalink

  41. Yup, definitely needs to be a series.  Let Paco help write it.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 22 at 11:23 PM • permalink

  42. Tim Congratulations.
    You’ve mastered the art of writing a column in ten minutes and having an artist spend three hours illustrating it.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 06 22 at 11:31 PM • permalink

  43. Tim, that comic is brilliant and brilliantly funny; sums up the whole global warming scare, including its morphing into the broader concept of “climate change”. You should do one featuring Al Gore (although you’ll need to use bigger panels).

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 11:38 PM • permalink

  44. Oh, and I apoplogize for even mentioning Huckabee (#40); that’s unacceptably off-topic. It’s just that his latest salvo completely unmasked him as an apologist for terrorism, and it sent me into a cold fury.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 22 at 11:40 PM • permalink

  45. Hey, Tim. If there is a second installment, set it in the daytime or turn on some lights in your cave....umm, office.

    I want a better look at Candii!! A latex jumpsuit and a .38 snubnose revolver...what more could a man want!!

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 06 22 at 11:43 PM • permalink

  46. If there’s a second installment, I’d love to see Candii toss the infamous Inspector Dan from Tim’s office. The noir-crossover potential here is enormous!

    Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2007 06 22 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  47. So, when can we expect the second installment in the Adventures of Detective Tim?

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 22 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  48. You are changing the face of newspaper columns, Tim. Very, very clever - funny and true too.

    Next week, all the regular leftoid columnists will go full graphic.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 06 23 at 12:19 AM • permalink

  49. I’m pissed.  I walked down to my neighborhoods block party.  I met a new neighbor.  He works for Audi and has an R8 with him.  He won’t let me drive it.

    He asked me what publication I work for.  Tim, can a get a reference.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 06 23 at 12:28 AM • permalink

  50. Can I?

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 06 23 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  51. Brilliant stuff Tim. I almost choked on my coffee at my favourite inner city cafe this morning due to laughter. I’m sure all the lefties were wondering what I was sniggering about.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 06 23 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  52. paco. Huckabee is a persistent little troll. Hes left the italics jar open though. I can hear the bees warming up now....

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 23 at 01:15 AM • permalink

  53. If so called “Tim” keeps trying something different, he may never be the neo-con Phillip Adams, and all his dreams will be for nought.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 23 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  54. #48

    Next week, all the regular leftoid columnists will go full graphic.

    Did someone say Leunig?

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 06 23 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  55. Great column Tim.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 23 at 01:50 AM • permalink

  56. Well done, very, very funny

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 06 23 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  57. Phatty appeals to Turnbull: pharcical

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 23 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  58. #57 kiss of death for malcolm then

    Posted by KK on 2007 06 23 at 02:27 AM • permalink

  59. #20
    Gore’st Thump the AGW bible ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 06 23 at 03:21 AM • permalink

  60. Mellanie Phillips has an excellent article on this.

    This might also be considered an inconvenient truth

    China overtakes US on emissions

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 23 at 03:24 AM • permalink

  61. Just how I like my noir.  Carbon black.

    Posted by lotocoti on 2007 06 23 at 04:56 AM • permalink

  62. Candii’s chest is doing an excellent impression of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae (hat tip to PACO).

    Oh, those poor, poor 300 Spartans...doomed to be forever remembered in relation of the strength an early Greek woman’s bustle.

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 06 23 at 07:05 AM • permalink

  63. #40 Huckabee’s Hero?

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 23 at 07:35 AM • permalink

  64. #60 - frollymole has fingered Melanie’s goods. Her article is a glow-ball tearer!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 23 at 07:50 AM • permalink

  65. Only hope I am here for the great cooling when it comes so I can mock unashamedly the warmongers.

    Posted by WaZoBia on 2007 06 23 at 09:08 AM • permalink

  66. What does warmongering have to do with “cooling”?

    As usual, trolls can’t think. What you should have said was: “Only hope I am here for the great cooling when it comes so I can mock unashamedly the anthropogenic climate-change deniers.” Only, maybe those words are all too big for you.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 23 at 09:30 AM • permalink

  67. I forgot to add: the mockery of warmongerers is in other threads. Go to them—but prepare to be mocked in turn as a terrorist-appeasing peacebat.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 23 at 09:31 AM • permalink

  68. Only hope I am here for the great cooling when it comes so I can mock unashamedly the warmongers.

    This statement is so silly, it can only be irony.  Or is it satire?  I always get those two mixed up.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 23 at 09:47 AM • permalink

  69. The coolening is here now, temperature 6deg on the beach, the first time in 3 years.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 06 23 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  70. OT
    Loewenstein’s My Israel Question has slid so far down the ranks it has now cracked the million mark.
    Now ranked at 1,039,102 on Amazon.
    Must be time for Ant to pull out his credit card again and to fill up another one of his cupboards with copies of his own book.

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 06 23 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  71. #70 We’re all proud of him Hank. It was about time he hit the Million.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 23 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  72. missred, aka Trixi LaToux, comes back from lunch and sees the chaos in Mr. Tim’s office.  That crazy crossdresser, Candii, has stepped over the line once again.  Trixi quick removes the knife from her fine mahogany desk, cuts the holster off Candii’s unshaven thigh, kicks the gun out of reach and then pins her helplessly to the wall where she will remain until the “men” come to take her back to the asylum.
    Trixi unceremouniously takes her booted leg to Mr. Climate Change and bounces him out of Mr. Tim’s office, returning to then deal with the rest of the self serving looneys polluting the hallway outside the office. 
    Returning, her red curls a bit messy from her tasks, she makes Mr. Tim an adult beverage, cleans his ashtray, gives him wink, and sashays out of his office (as Mr. Tim casts a surreptitious glance at the fine form of his real secretary).

    Posted by missred on 2007 06 23 at 10:44 AM • permalink

  73. Ok, so what happened to the link?

    Posted by gajim on 2007 06 23 at 11:18 AM • permalink

  74. mmmm… Clicking on the link currently leads to

    Page not found

    [Hammet mode]Last week it was a dame, a client of mine, that was 404’ed, now this.  Who was behind it?  The fat man seemed likely, but it wasn’t his style—too direct, too blunt for the lavender scented Gore Gutman....

    Posted by Apostic on 2007 06 23 at 11:19 AM • permalink

  75. #73, #74 The link works fine for me.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 23 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  76. Aha! You’ve finally realised that the average global warmer has trouble reading words while believing blindly everything that ‘science’ tells them.
    You have, in the past, attempted to confuse the gwers by introducing logic into the argument. If you want to really confuse them, ask them the percentage of global CO2 production attributable to humans. From my own limited survey of gwers estimates vary from 50% to 100%, but strangely, I don’t know the answer either because nobody will print it. However, if it’s over 2% I will act as Al Gore’s catamite for a week.
    The gwers have invented the worlds most perfect pyramid scheme; you get enough money to hire one tame ‘scientist’ to frighten enough people to donate enough money to hire two tame ‘scientists’ etc.

    Geoff Carruthers
    P.S. I read recently that one of these ‘scientists’ declared that all gw skeptics were being paid by Exxon. If you have any contacts with that august institution please intercede on my behalf. I figure I’m owed about 15 years back pay.

    Posted by bloodnok on 2007 06 23 at 11:50 AM • permalink

  77. link doesn’t work

    Posted by murph on 2007 06 23 at 12:23 PM • permalink

  78. Yeah they’ve taken it down already… I’d just linked to it on Samizdata and all.. :(

    Posted by Scott W on 2007 06 23 at 12:25 PM • permalink

  79. Why’d they take it down?  Afraid it would crash their server?  Cowards.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 23 at 12:34 PM • permalink

  80. Nah, they’ve changed the site over to the Sunday Telegraph. The News Ltd sites all do it.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 23 at 12:37 PM • permalink

  81. Here’s hoping that it is back up on Monday then!

    Posted by Scott W on 2007 06 23 at 02:08 PM • permalink

  82. #66, Andrea:

    I may be wrong, and often am, but I read WaZoBia’s “warmonger” as one of our old word plays on the term warm monger as warmonger.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 23 at 07:59 PM • permalink

  83. WaZoBia clarified in another comment (on a newer post) that that was indeed what he meant to do. He’s all clear!

    Darn. And I thought I had a new troll to play with. Huckabee’s all tattered.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 23 at 09:24 PM • permalink

  84. Tim tam, can the Blair gang be a cartoon of protesters in your next cartoon?

    I think it should have been a half page along with a story. Poss. a monthly cartoon.

    I still enjoyed it!!!!!!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 23 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  85. I won’t be impressed until he hits six million.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2007 06 24 at 01:10 PM • permalink

  86. That’s fantastic!

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 06 24 at 05:38 PM • permalink

  87. love it. A very inventive use of your space!

    Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 24 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  88. I do Tim!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 06 25 at 12:04 AM • permalink

  89. Awesome Blairtoon!

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2007 06 25 at 02:19 AM • permalink

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