Tim Blair

Hot 'Guins doesn't quite have the same ring. Does Tarrant play striker?

So Tim, what happens to the site when the Pies win it all at the Grand Final?

He must not read your site very often.I not even Australian and new that you're a Magpie fan just from reading your site. Onward to the Grand Final!!

A Magpie, not a Swan.

Keep a close eye on any small, shiny objects, Tim...

Is the cheer "MAG! MAG! MAG!"?

http://www.shades-of-night.com/aviary/gallery/images/magpie.jpg
http://www.shades-of-night.com/aviary/sounds/magpie1.wav

GO THE SWANNIES

GO PIES!

So it'll be back to normal after saturday then?

Good to hear.

Tim - If you go "all Hamas on Power Line's ass" does that mean you will accost his ten year old daughter and push her down the stairs? That's a more Hamas-like approach.

If you want to put some fear to Power Line how about "going all Tony Soprano on his ass"?

Oh thats an AFL team's colours? I thought it was for west sydney magpies. What sort of Sydneysider are you Tim??

That being said I'm really going to have to get a handle on all this AFL stuff before I move to Mexico. I will perish when I get there.

Penguins!?! Well, if that's what they look like, blame whoever designed the Colligwood official site; that's where I nicked the little birdies from. I must say they didn't look much like magpies to me either, but we don't have magpies in Florida (we have grackles, a sort of small, loud crow -- I think they are the reincarnated spirits of the many retirees who have graced our condo'd shores). Maybe they are the Australian version of the magpie?

Well, I did in fact find & explore the Collingwood team site (originally in order to see whether Tim had matched their fonts, but Collingwood turns out not to be font-distinctive)& I saw there some photographs of players with American-shaped footballs. So is Australian football some sort of rugby or soccer with pigskins? What is it?

Andrea, if Grakles are annoying crow like creatures who normally only prey on the young, weak and defenceless and are bloody loud bastards when you are trying to have a sleep in on a Saturday morning, then they may well be related to Magpies. Both the bird and the team. Now if you want a REAL team click Here.

Hey Vince - I was just asking if Tim was going to leave the site in this color motif. I have been a Pies fan since the 70's. Shepparton born and bred.

A penguin? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I will actually be cheering for Collingwood on Saturday against the Port Adelaide Feral Swamp Monsters- and when Collingwood kick a goal I will say "Yay, go Penguins!"

Australian magpie pictures.

Check the one where a magpie faces off with a kookaburra.

Or here.
Hope that works.

Hey where's that Buckley guy from originally?

He's from Collingwood originally right?

right?

That, Scott, needs promoting. When Port Adel. walk out on to the scared turf, MCG, Victorians compliment them in the encouraging voice,`Hell, Swaaaampmonsteers'.And then, they add the literary device, bathos, by breaking out into loud guffaws.
I will glue the eyes to the idiot box in anticapation. A few cries of, `Yay, Penguins ', wouldn't go astray either - the nice touch of good humoured self deprecation as the penguins squish swampmonsters into the peat enmired in swamp.

Must stock up on the tinnies.

"Power Line is begging for me to get all Hamas on their ass."

Arse, Tim. A-R-S-E. You're an Aussie, remember?

"Arse, Tim. A-R-S-E. You're an Aussie, remember?"

Bwahahaha! The Evil American Influence has taken hold! (I, on the other hand, used the non-American colloquialism "nicked." Does this mean I am doomed?)

Site design should be gone on Monday then...

Not doomed, My dear Andrea, evolved is the word you were looking for. Pretty soon, we will have you using the word coloUr and aluminium and actually being able to pronouce them correctly.

And when you finally realise that your sick perversion of rugby is a bastardised waste of valuable time, suitable only for the terminally insane and the maladjusted, then we will finally be on the road to progress.

One down, 250-odd million to go. :-)

T. Surprised,

He's from the Northern Territory.

And which club did he play for FIRST?

It was Collingwood first right? right?

Surely their favourite son would be one of them, born and bred in a small hovel, raised exclusively on street scraps, killing strangers in exchange for a game of kick to kick?

Chuckling at this blog...
Penguins... hilarious!

Southern Districts (NT).

He then played for the Port Adelaide Magpies, and then got drafted into a superior league. If you want to talk about his top-level career, he started at Brisbane and then onto Collingwood.

I'd say it's fairly obvious where his allegiances lie now.

Todd:

I don't follow sport(s), so you can say anything about American football that you like.

Oh, geez, the Ozzie equivalent of a Chicago Cubs fan.

You do know you get credit in purgatory, don't you Tim?

LOOKS LIKE THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE UMPIRES TO ME.

Yes Eddie, and on Monday I also look forward to seeing every link to Tim renamed "tim blair, conservative, collingwood supporter and all-round loser"

Sleuthing away here and one is almost certain: an evil glove puppet has infiltrated. A g.p. who is an evil genius, playing devilish hand against the penguins. There, Eddie, there is the enema .

Only collingwood supporters call their black & white stripes "colours". Everyone else knows black and white are shades. Silly collingwood.

Silly, maybe, but that yucky aqua worn by the swampmonsters,or, penguin black and white, the latter is an advantage.

Still great content, but awful design. It looks like the site for dodgy fringe group of loons.