It seems like for a few months now, I've been watching New Hampshire's WMUR in the morning and frequently a commercial comes on for an opportunity to get a Fritz Weatherbee ring tone. It's really hard to describe who Fritz is if you don't live in New Hampshire but anyway, one of the ring tone's say "If you pick up your phone, it might be Binky Sears!". Binky Sears - Who is Binky Sears? It's taken me a while but I've finally tried figuring out who this 'Binky Sears' character is and I've determined that nobody else seems to know either. I've only found one lonely message board thread about it and it doesn't conclude anything. So....

Who is Binky Sears?

And why should we get excited if he calls? If I ever find out, I will post the answer hear and if you have any leads to where we might be able to find an answer, please comment or contact me.

Possible Ideas

#1 - BINKY SEARS may be an Anagram

Anagrams are a type of word play where the results of rearranging the letters of a phrase make a new phrase. It's doesn't seem likely that Fritz is using anagrams or other hidden language to communicate with his audience but it's not completely crazy as it is something people who pass on knowledge sometimes do. Before we try 'BINKY SEARS', I'll illustrate an example of an anagram's from the popular book 'Da Vinci Code'.

• O, Draconian Devil -> Leonardo da Vinci
• Oh, Lame Saint -> The Mona Lisa

Below is a list of anagram solutions I found for 'BINKY SEARS'. There's probably 1000's of solutions so I'm just going to list some interesting ones. If you're trying this yourself and the anagram really exsists, it's probably a 'New Hampshire Phrase' or specifically related to something in 'New Hampshire'.

So here we go! By rearranging the letters 'BINKY SEARS', you can spell:

• IS BARN KEYS
• IN BRASS KEY
• SKIS NEARBY
• SKI BARNEYS

So far, I'm not convinced 'BINKY SEARS' is an anagram.

#2 - Fritz's Mom is 'Binkie' and 'Sears' is a Clue to where his Uncle came up with the name

This idea came from a comment on this post which was written in a way that leads us to believe Fritz left it himself. This means we need to do some research in New Hampshire about his mother spelled 'Binkie' and the term 'Sears'. My first thoughts are that it could be 'Sears', the department store OR 'Sears' a last name like Richard Dudley Sears. It could even be a homonym like 'seer', which is a visionary.

I've found a couple references to a 'Richard Dudley Sears' who was a graduate of Harvard and resident of Massachusetts. It's hard to tell but this this 'person' may have been a great tennis player or even a architect in Concord,NH. If he is the architect in Concord,NH then we may be on to something.

#3 - Contact Fritz & Ask Him

Well, aside from being the most obvious solution I'm a bit perplexed as to why Fritz would be making and marketing ringtones about something the nobody knows about and ultimately has to be ask him in order to find out who 'Binky Sears' is. Is this Fritz's way of reaching out to the community? Maybe I will inquire about 'Binky Sears' from Fritz himself and finally get a more solid conclusion.

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