Out of Office, Tony Blair Struggling To Leave That Stupid Grin Behind
It’s been two weeks since Tony Blair stepped down from his longtime post as British Prime Minister, but sources say he is still having trouble leaving certain aspects of the past behind.
Star Telegram staffer Hugh Connelly reports that, “Mr. Blair understood that after ten years in office he had become accustomed to a great many things that would change. We are hearing from people close to the Blairs that Tony has reconciled quite well with the end of his tenure but simply cannot leave that stupid grin behind.”
Blair’s grin, which became almost as notable as the contrast between his eloquent lies and George Bush’s bumblings, appears to have been the real crutch and backbone which saw him through the trying last years of his prime ministership. But now, with no country to rule and no cameras chasing him from all sides, that stupid grin is proving a stubbornly persistent vestigial limb. Nearly every candid photo taken of Blair in the past two weeks depicts the same stupidly grinning face as when he ruled the famed British nation.
“I have spoken to my God and resolved,” an emotional Tony Blair said to reporters yesterday, “that this Friday will be the last evening I and the grin spend together. I ask that you as respected members of the press respect our privacy during these emotional, trying times.”
Sources say the smile will be buried at the family plot in
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