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Do not adjust your mindsets…..

Tim Dunlop here, checking in.  My blog, The Road to Surfdom, is currently migrating to a new server. Unfortunately this process has taken longer than I thought—migration can be like that—so Tim has been kind enough to offer me asylum on these shores (rumours that I was stopped at the border and was seen throwing posts overboard are greatly exaggerated).

Some people in comments below expressed concern that it might get a bit confusing around here having two Tims posting, but I suspect the content of the posts will provide sufficient differentiation.  To say the friggin’ least.  Following the unofficial convention we use at other sites, lets call me Tim and Tim tim.

Still, no doubt many will miss this post and find themselves in their own personal Crying Game, having logged onto tim’s site and wound up reading Tim’s posts.  To such people, apologies in advance….

Anyway, just wanted to say g’day, thank Tim once again, and I’ll be back soon with a proper post; I’m thinking something along the lines of why George W. Bush is such a dick or how John Howard is destroying Western civilisation…

Posted by Tim Dunlop on 04/16/2005 at 03:44 PM
  1. G’day tim,

    For a leftist nut job you seem to be all-right ;)

    Posted by Secret Agent X-9 on 2005 04 16 at 04:54 PM • permalink

  2. They call me…Tim?

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 04 16 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  3. I look forward to your postings – haven’t forgotton your gracious offer to tim when his site was hacked

    A suggestion: criticising George Bush or John Howard should be safe enough, but you might want to avoid mentioning plastic turkeys, or saying any one said anything about being deputy sheriff….

    Posted by debo.v2 on 2005 04 16 at 05:15 PM • permalink

  4. their own personal Crying Game

    LOL

    Posted by Aaron - Freewill on 2005 04 16 at 05:27 PM • permalink

  5. Hi TD.
    Perhaps while you are here you could give us a dissertation on the respective social and cultural underpinnings (well-springs? inspirations?) of so-called left & right politics and world views.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 04 16 at 05:43 PM • permalink

  6. Welcome aboard! :P

    Posted by dobeln on 2005 04 16 at 05:57 PM • permalink

  7. First liberal I’ve ever heard of with a sense of humor.  Are we sure he’s who he says he is?

    Posted by blerp on 2005 04 16 at 06:04 PM • permalink

  8. “They call me MISTER Tim!”

    Posted by Ken Summers on 2005 04 16 at 06:09 PM • permalink

  9. “...lets call me Tim and Tim tim”.

    Pleased to meet you, Tim and Tim tim.

    “...why George W. Bush is such a dick…”

    Not just a stinky poopoo head?
    .

    Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 04 16 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  10. That’s Big Swinging Dick to you, boy…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 06:23 PM • permalink

  11. Oh, this WILL be both fun and interesting - my two favourite blog sites have merged.

    I am going to sit back and watch the fun, here, when ‘reality based community’based on how the world should work - but doesn’t (belongum Tim) meets ‘reality based community’ (belongum Tim) based on how the world actually does work - in day to day reality.

    Tim (D) and Tim (B), some of your flakier denizens ain’t gonna like this.

    Hmm. Timdo and Timbo, perhaps?

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2005 04 16 at 06:26 PM • permalink

  12. Thanks, everyone.  The Crying Game line, for those not aware, belongs to George Costanza.  Still, it isn’t really a joke until someone plagiarises it.

    Posted by Tim Dunlop on 2005 04 16 at 06:28 PM • permalink

  13. Imus, back on 9/12 or so, said Bush was the right man for the job because Bush was enough of a prick to pull the trigger.

    Which I guess he did, though in a nicer way than was expected ; rather than killing them all, he’s introducing democracy.  We will no longer co-inhabit the globe with 11th century governments.  So he’s sort of a dick, stupidly imposing this idea of his.

    Imus has since then turned into a panty-wearing liberal.

    Bush is fairly eloquent about it; and sometimes not [url=http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/imuscut.bushpope.ram]http://rhhardin.home.mindspring.com/imuscut.bushpope.ram [/url] a divergence that needs explanation.

    I blame vapor lock

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 04 16 at 06:44 PM • permalink

  14. Jeebus!

    First Rich Hall now Tim Dunlop.  When’s the alternative universe Spock with the Van Dyke going to show up?

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2005 04 16 at 06:46 PM • permalink

  15. Well, um, I guess this is OK.  But, um.  Are your readers going to live around here for a while?  They better behave.

    Hey you, off my yard!  And you, don’t park your junker in front of my house.  Darn liberals.

    Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 16 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  16. Joebagadonuts — Use your power! Be the captain of Tim’s Blog…

    So how is John Howard going to destroy Western Civilization from way out there on the edge of it like that, rather than right in the middle like where us Amurcans is?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 07:30 PM • permalink

  17. Tim is to tim as Liberal is to liberal, or is this the wrong way around?

    Posted by zscore on 2005 04 16 at 08:06 PM • permalink

  18. wouldn’t it be less confusing if we just called everybody Bruce ?

    Posted by guinsPen on 2005 04 16 at 08:19 PM • permalink

  19. suinsPen — Perhaps we should invite New Bruce here to lead the invocation:  “This is the wattle, the emblem of our land…”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 08:22 PM • permalink

  20. It’s like some freakazoid merging of two separate blog-sentiences. Maybe Tim D and Tim B are like Jekyll and Hyde.

    Everyone, don’t look at my name. It’ll just confuse matters more.

    Posted by TimT on 2005 04 16 at 08:33 PM • permalink

  21. Andrea — Perhaps we could have a special color for Tim(d)‘s posts, might be hard to tell them apart otherwise.  Maybe white?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 08:34 PM • permalink

  22. Leftist assylum seekers should be tossed into detention centres, not offered a cushy haven on Rightist blogs.

    Posted by Jack on 2005 04 16 at 09:05 PM • permalink

  23. Hey, visiting Tim. (We say “Hey,” where I’m from, when you guys say “G’day.”)

    Posted by m on 2005 04 16 at 09:08 PM • permalink

  24. Let’s see, you drop into Tim’s blog and take his name while giving him a pseudonym. Only the   deluded left could be so arrogant.

    Posted by slatts on 2005 04 16 at 09:36 PM • permalink

  25. wronwright — Why haven’t you given your yard back to the oppressed native peoples?  Bad enough you stole the part of their country with all the paved roads and running water, but now you’re going to deny their right of return to your lawn?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  26. slatts — You might have to take that up with Mommy and Daddy Dunlop.  I’spect we’ll be able to tell the difference between Darryl and his other brother Darryl (Hey, does that make Andrea Larry?)

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  27. Joe bagadonuts — I wonder which Tim is painted black on which side…?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 16 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  28. Oops, sorry Tim D. I misread your suggestion thinking you’d rebranded Tim B Tim tim. Bear with me, I’ve got a brother and a son both named Tim. Enough to make one as deluded as a lefty.

    Posted by slatts on 2005 04 16 at 10:02 PM • permalink

  29. Onya Tim. You too, Tim.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2005 04 16 at 10:40 PM • permalink

  30. With apoligies to FST.

    “I live in Timtown on a street named Tim
    Near the corner of Tim Street and Tim

    I work in the Tim Building with a boss named Tim
    Gonna have three kids, name’em Tim, Tim, Tim

    See, some of us Americans know something about Australia and comedy. Unlike the decidedly unfunny Rich Hall.

    Six degrees of separation moment.  The cover art for FST’s “Fighting Clowns” album was created by the decidedly funny Phil Hartmann, who also appeared on SNL as did the aforementioned unfunny Rich Hall.

    Related asides, I did once meet Rich Hall. Wait, no,  I was simply flushing a turd down the toilet.  Easy to confuse the two.

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2005 04 16 at 11:37 PM • permalink

  31. (Sits back, munching popcorn from hollowed out skull on her lap, watches.)

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 04 17 at 12:32 AM • permalink

  32. I suppose if Darlene Taylor can go to Margo Kinston’s Web Dairy, it’s OK for Tim Dunlop to stay at Tim’s place.  Welcome Tim tim.

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 04 17 at 12:33 AM • permalink

  33. This is bad, REALLY BAD, I might accidentally read one of Tim and Tim tim’s posts - akkk…a different point of view! Must…be….careful…

    their own personal Crying Game

    What, because we’ve found a big prick where we expected a big pussy…cat?
    :)

    Seriously though Tim and Tim tim, as others have alluded, apart from being a whacko, petticoat over the head raving moonbat, you seem like a fairly normal sort of guy (unless there is more relevance to the “Crying Game” reference?)
    So its good to see this bit of cooperation as a reminder that Left and Right - despite appearances - can be ideological enemies without being mortal enemies.

    Maybe white?

    lol…Careful Richard, crushing of dissent and all that. :)

    Posted by Michael42 on 2005 04 17 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  34. Tim Dunlop needs to ask himself: “Why does the server hate me?”. I think we must acknowledge that blame for the server problems lies with both Dunlop and the server, but Dunlop must bear the bulk of the responsibility. I certainly hope Dunlop isn’t unwise enough to take unilateral action against the service provider, as that would only provoke greater disasters in future.

    Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 04 17 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  35. Of course, if you two Tims really wanted to mess with us, you could try impersonating each other in yours posts and seeing if we can tell whether it’s meant seriously or not :).

    Posted by Sonetka on 2005 04 17 at 12:47 AM • permalink

  36. Michael42 — I’m not crushing anything; I’m just trying to tastefully accessorize… that’s my story and I’m sticking to it…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 17 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  37. You should call yourselves T1 and T2, just like B1 and B2 from Bananas in Pyjamas ... should we then call you Tims in Skins ... no ... Tims in Sins ... I got it ... Tims in Spins!  Hmmm ... just forget it.

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 04 17 at 01:00 AM • permalink

  38. Dammit, TimB, if you wanted to cross-blog, why couldn’t you hook up here?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 17 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  39. Tim B and Pamela A would be a pair of blogs ... very appropriate ... isn’t it bizarre that her TV show is called stacked!

    Posted by Stevo on 2005 04 17 at 01:13 AM • permalink

  40. I’m just trying to tastefully accessorize… that’s my story and I’m sticking to it…

    Ahh…I see.
    And might I say that you appear to have a fine eye for the appropriate colour in the appropriate situation.

    Posted by Michael42 on 2005 04 17 at 02:24 AM • permalink

  41. lets call me Tim and Tim tim

    I’m afraid that’s a little too nuanced for my simple neo-con mind but I suppose I will have to cope.

    Welcome aboard anyway.

    Posted by Adam B on 2005 04 17 at 03:08 AM • permalink

  42. (Sits back, munching popcorn from *freshly* hollowed out skull on her lap, watches.)

    Fresh is a celebrity’s best friend

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 04 17 at 03:16 AM • permalink

  43. Having a few probs with the ‘new technology’ eh t/d? That’ll teach you to hire Hamish Alcorn to build your website.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 17 at 03:19 AM • permalink

  44. BTW Tim, I always wanted to ask you, why have you named you blog after the most famous work by one of the finest ant-socialist, neo-liberal philosophers?

    Posted by Adam B on 2005 04 17 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  45. By which I meant “your blog” and “anti-socialist” - I really must learn to use preview or stay away from blogs while intoxicated.

    Posted by Adam B on 2005 04 17 at 03:26 AM • permalink

  46. Welcome, Tim.  It’s always good to see real discussion, and not just a bunch of foil hat wearing moonbats flinging feces around the joint.  Not that us RWDB aren’t capable of flinging feces ourselves, but it’s always interesting to see how often Godwin’s Law is demonstrated in those threads by the “opposing view”.  Although not as often now, since Andrea tightened up on the registration for this blog, and kept the worst of the moonbats out of here.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 17 at 03:46 AM • permalink

  47. See?I thoughtthis would be fun. Hey Andrea, got another hollowed-out skull?
    I’ll bring the beer…

    When, of when, withh Nabakov show up?

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2005 04 17 at 05:32 AM • permalink

  48. Mark Bahnisch‘s server has been down all afternoon.

    Could Tim be the merely the first of a wave of lefty blog-refugees seeking asylum? Do we need to establish quotas, or a border protection policy?

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 04 17 at 05:35 AM • permalink

  49. No, Evil Pundit, we need immigration quotas!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 17 at 06:05 AM • permalink

  50. Another server down!
    It’s a Pseudnami!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 04 17 at 06:44 AM • permalink

  51. Bring it on!

    White, the color of surrender, isn’t it?

    Posted by Retread on 2005 04 17 at 07:16 AM • permalink

  52. Mr. Dunlop:

    Let me throw down a question for your consideration ... a question that I have yet to see a good answer for, from those of your ideological stripe:

    “If established corporations are so powerful, how do people like Sam Walton (Wal-Mart’s founder) and Michael Dell (Dell Computer’s founder) come from nowhere and, time after time, steal their customers so effectively?”

    Posted by Rich Casebolt on 2005 04 17 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  53. Evil Pundit — Do they do lawns, or are they just coming here to crowd up our schools and emergency rooms?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 17 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  54. Adam B — I always thought ants were pretty good socialists…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 17 at 11:10 AM • permalink

  55. Good lord Tim!!

    (all the rest of you clowns, behave!)

    Posted by cs on 2005 04 17 at 11:16 AM • permalink

  56. Hi Tim.  Do you wear pajamas when you blog too?  (That’s pyjamas to you folks in Oz).

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 04 17 at 01:19 PM • permalink

  57. Following on/moving into the/the Tim/Tim detente/al detente…

    I want to make very clear/dance around the issue that frankly you dickhead RWDBs/ you smug and dumb lefties have hit the nail on the head/lost the plot when it comes to how the world is now working out/screwing up so badly.

    From where I stand/sit, it’s bloody obvious/not an easy choice.  It’s polarising/coming together into those that that hate freedom/having the freedom to hate. There is only one way/several ways forward here/or there.

    Should we grasp the bull by the horns/get on the horn to grasp the bull? I think not/it’s about time. So I say to other Australians/to all hopeful peoples of the world. Now is the time to come together/accept we’re all different and glory in/take up the challenge of this indisputable fact/ difference of opinion. It sounds easy/hard but we have done this before/are ready to rise to a new challenge.

    Tim/Tim are putting the future behind them - a clear statement/subtle gesture/challenge/pointless third way for all of us/those who aren’t us/you over there pinching my ciggies.

    All that’s left to say/there’s nothing more to be said/can be summed up in a few words/cannot be captured in words. And it is this/or something else. When is said is said and done/as so much remains to be said, we can all agree on one thing/except those who can’t.

    The Pies have got Buckleys this year.

    I’ll leave you with a universal/unique moving message/bizarre shit.

    http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/BL/BL_Black_Lodge_Singers_-_Flintstones.mp3

    Posted by Nabakov on 2005 04 17 at 03:06 PM • permalink

  58. You can say that again!

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 04 17 at 05:33 PM • permalink

  59. What Nabakov/Treacher said. I think.

    Posted by Ken Summers on 2005 04 17 at 05:51 PM • permalink

  60. Hee! I was right! Pass the popcorn, Andrea (and have another tinnie).

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2005 04 17 at 05:59 PM • permalink

  61. Tim D - you might not have been actually seen throwing posts over-board - but you did contribute to the quotes ending up in the drink!  Therefore you are responsible for putting your posts at risk.  I fully support any policy that discourages post smuggling.

    Andrea decides what posts come to this site and the manner in which they come!

    Posted by Razor on 2005 04 17 at 10:42 PM • permalink

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