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The Tim Blair Building in New South Wales is now joined by Tim Blair Field in New Hampshire.

(Actually, it’s a typo; the real name is Tom Blair Field. Still, this is the nicest honour-in-error since Yahoo News briefly appointed me Prime Minister of Britain.)

Posted by Tim B. on 05/10/2007 at 10:25 AM

  1. You mean you weren’t Prime Minister of Britain?  What a relief.

    Posted by miriams ideas on 2007 05 10 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  2. How about some honors for Miss Harris? 

    I have just arranged for the first hurricane of the North Atlantic season to be named in her honor.

    Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 05 10 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  3. Tim Blair is an anagram for “Bra Limit”.

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 05 10 at 10:36 AM • permalink

  4. Don’t know if I would want to be PM of Great Britain.  I think I would invoke the Norman Mailer convention on that one.

    Mailer once ran for Mayor of New York City.  One wag asked him what his first official act would be.  His response—demand a recount.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 10 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  5. Is it just me, or is the Tim Blair franchise the finest franchise in Australia?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 10 at 10:46 AM • permalink

  6. How ‘bout your own city, on top of Geothermia perhaps?

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 10:48 AM • permalink

  7. Geothermia is so yesterday. I like Blairotopia as a future look.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 05 10 at 10:53 AM • permalink

  8. #1
    Isn’t Tony about to step down ... Tim’s turn?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 05 10 at 10:54 AM • permalink

  9. Actually, since it was in New Hampshire, it was an “honor-in-error”.

    Posted by Veeshir on 2007 05 10 at 10:54 AM • permalink

  10. #7

    Blairville?  Blairsburg? Blairington?

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:00 AM • permalink

  11. Prime Minister Blair… hmmm… okay, boss, you run, I’ll dredge it…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 10 at 11:03 AM • permalink

  12. Ha ha, the Blair influence grows.  Soon there will be giant portraits of him on the sides of tall buildings.  Every schoolroom will have his picture on the wall, smiling down at all the little RWDBs-in-training.  As our Dark Lord Rove drifts farther back into the shadows, Tim Blair will become the new Scourge of the Nutroots!  Victory will be complete!

    Or he’ll just go out to road-test another dysfunctional vehicle.  Either way, it’s all good.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 10 at 11:07 AM • permalink

  13. Actually, I went to Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 05 10 at 11:18 AM • permalink

  14. Mr. Bingley

    Was it on the corner of Blair Street and Blair?

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 05 10 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  15. joe,

    Possibly off of Blair Square…..

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 05 10 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  16. The Blairfax Building
    TimBlairTown (after Prince Charles’ School)

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 05 10 at 11:29 AM • permalink

  17. Hehe, I kid you not.

    My 25th reunion is coming up next month.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 05 10 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  18. Bingster

    I don’t see Linda in the picture. Que Pasa?

    bye-the-bye.  We just attended the better half’s aah,hmmm,oooh, bigger number than 25th last weekend.  Had a really great time.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 10 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  19. In my neck of the woods

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 10 at 12:26 PM • permalink

  20. Yuh know, Wendy’s is trying to sell off Tim Horton’s.  Buy it, change the name to Tim Blair’s…...could be an EXCELLENT* franchising opportunity!!

    *in a Monty Burns sense, of course.

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 10 at 12:36 PM • permalink

  21. #4: Mailer once ran for Mayor of New York City.  One wag asked him what his first official act would be.  His response—demand a recount.

    Actually, it was William F. Buckley, in 1965.  He wrote a book about this experience entitled “The Unmaking of A Mayor.”

    Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 05 10 at 01:26 PM • permalink

  22. Bruce.

    Mailer did run for mayor of NYC in 1969.

    I seem to remember that quote being attributed to him.  If it was, in fact, Buckley then I will invoke the Buckley convention regarding PM of Britain.  It does sound like both of them.  There was another great quote by Buckley regarding trials.  Something about taking a page out of the NYC phone directory and getting a better trial.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 05 10 at 02:49 PM • permalink

  23. The Blair Train continues its run towards world domination.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 10 at 03:02 PM • permalink

  24. Not only that, but it’s a BASEBALL field!

    There’s probably a lesson there somewhere, but I’m to lazy to go hunt it down and kill it.

    Posted by mojo on 2007 05 10 at 03:22 PM • permalink

  25. Congratulations, Tom.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 10 at 04:18 PM • permalink

  26. Wow and I can still comment on your blog… you’re so nice to us little people.

    Posted by Teresa on 2007 05 10 at 04:43 PM • permalink

  27. Tasty Corn!

    Welcome back to Blair News, it’s gutsy and it’s good!

    The winner for best new Blair Bogie Blogger Quote goes to:

    “If the possum wants to rid himself of the Creature, I would advise him to throw a bottle of chardonnay into the neighbouring yard.”

    Margos Maid


    More Blair Bogie Awards contiune throughout the page..

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 10 at 06:22 PM • permalink

  28. Mr Bingley, that Blair Academy is an impressive bluestone pile.

    Posted by kae on 2007 05 10 at 06:29 PM • permalink

  29. I want the main bedroom!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 10 at 06:35 PM • permalink

  30. There was another great quote by Buckley regarding trials.  Something about taking a page out of the NYC phone directory and getting a better trial.

    Actually - “I would rather live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone directory than in one governed by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 10 at 07:03 PM • permalink

  31. ..since Yahoo News briefly appointed me Prime Minister of Britain.

    No not despair Tim, there’s a vacancy coming soon.  But would Muddling Britain be be able to tolerate the improvement?

    Posted by Barrie on 2007 05 10 at 07:04 PM • permalink

  32. I really shouldn’t read this blog while I’m trying to eat weetbix. There have been far too many near misses.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 10 at 07:08 PM • permalink

  33. Nilknarf Arbed

    Keyboards aren’t that expensive. Well unless the keyboard is attached to say, a laptop.

    You’re lucky that you have the ability to direct (meaning aim) fire, unlike the poor bastard that sneezes.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 10 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  34. Oh…while eating weetabix.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 10 at 07:47 PM • permalink

  35. Ha ha, the Blair influence grows.  Soon there will be giant portraits of him on the sides of tall buildings.  Every schoolroom will have his picture on the wall, smiling down at all the little RWDBs-in-training.  As our Dark Lord Rove drifts farther back into the shadows, Tim Blair will become the new Scourge of the Nutroots!  Victory will be complete!

    It won’t count until lefties start setting out for Tasmania on inner-tubes and oil-drum rafts… oh, who am I kidding?  What lefty has that kind of initiative?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 10 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  36. El Cid, there have been a few close calls here, and you’d think I’d have learnt by now.

    I really should invest in a selection of keyboards just in case.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 10 at 11:34 PM • permalink

  37. Tim Blaii-i-i-ir!

    Is that what you yell before a tree falls down?

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 05 11 at 03:24 AM • permalink

  38. #32 clearly the time is ripe for protective computer covers against sneezing, weetbix eruptions etc.

    I’m sure PACO or Andy Canuck have products galore -I’m too snuffled up to think of product acronyms. *snif*

    Posted by carpefraise on 2007 05 11 at 03:29 AM • permalink

  39. #38, do you mean the you need the Protection of Accessories for Computers Organisation?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 11 at 06:49 AM • permalink

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