I am so sick of hearing and reading about "tea bagging"

[Toucano]

It feels like we give a bit of credibility to their idiocy by using their inappropriate term.

I'm not a prude. I think my brain refuses to accept that "tea bagging" is a term relevant to politics (unless Larry Craig is also in the subject).

I will now call them "tea protests", and "tea protesters".


Thank you for permitting my short rant.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think maybe you are missing the point.

We use the term "teabagging" precisely because it's obscene and the teabaggers apparently don't know it. It makes them seem even more clueless and absurd.

So I intend to keep saying it.

Teabag.
Teabag.
Teabag.

[Toucano]

11. But it's acquiescing.

They think it means taping Lipton tea bags to your hat and spending 40 minutes in a city park.

That is not what tea bagging is all about!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Not at all. It's mocking them.

They think they're patriots. They think they're reenacting the Boston Tea Party. We know they're idiots because they are promoting their silly gatherings using a term that has amusingly obscene connotations, and apparently nobody has mentioned it to them. I think "teabagging" is really hilarious.

[saltpoint]

2. But "tea-baggers" is the term of the common man or woman, the term

with its sleeves rolled up and its teeth uneven, a term unfazed by coarse speech or conditions.

"Baggers" alone is one of those 2-syllable juicy nouns that have unlimited appeal in times when politics and culture intersect.

Witness "carpetbaggers."

[Toucano]

7. Uh, I think carpetbagers had bags made from actual carpets.

I could be wrong...

[saltpoint]

10. No, I'm gunning for the "taste" of the words. Their phonetic zeal for

our ears.

"Tea-baggers" is the term of choice not because of media ubiquity but because it crunches in our ears like Dr. Octopus stepping on Aunt May's bifocals.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Uh, excuse me .........

What?

[Stellabella]

4. Why aren't they charged with littering?

That's what I can't figure out.

[L. Coyote]

5. I'm just calling them the Tea Party, or just TP

[BuyingThyme]

6. You must not be a Stephanie Miller fan.

[Toucano]

9. Never heard of her.

Does she not realize that the tea sold in bags are the cuttings swept up from the floor!!!

[BuyingThyme]

14. A caller had a great teabagger story today:

It seems that the caller's grandmother is a member of a group of elder women who like to follow a round of golf with a spot of tea. They call themselves the Tea Baggers.

When the grandson explained the term in its modern context, the Baggers apparently stopped wearing their t-shirts. But they kept the name.

[Toucano]

16. And a child shall lead them...

;)

[JenniferJuniper]

8. Um. I don't think they think the term is inappropriate because

they have no freakin' clue what we are laughing about.

I doubt too many of them have seen any John Waters' films.

So how can we be giving them any credibility while we laugh hysterically at their, ahem, nuttiness?

[Deja Q]

12. Well, I'm not. It turns me on.

:o


:P

[Toucano]

13. That's not always a good thing. n-t

[azul]

17. Well then, please don't mention it again.

It's rather distracting from the uncomfortable issues of torture, state secrets privilege, domestic spying, IMPEACHMENT.

[Toucano]

18. Why do you want to IMPEACH Obama?

[azul]

22. very funny.

I should never underestimate the ability to be misunderstood: be specific.

Impeach Cheney! Then see what befalls this cabal that seems to consider itself above mere laws.

[HughMoran]

19. But Shuster said that Dick Armey will need an Army of Dicks to pull it off!

:rofl:

[L. Coyote]

20. I know. If only the nutbags would just go away.

[TankLV]

21. I know - let's talk about "corn holing" for a bit now...

or the childhood joys of "animal husbandry"...!!!

[KillCapitalism]

23. Me too

I'd like to show up to one of these parties with a sign that says "STFU and pay your taxes like the rest of us."

[mwei924]

24. Whenever they use the term "teabagging" seriously, it just makes them look stupid...

.. and I will never pass up a chance to ridicule Republicans looking stupid. NEVER!

[saltpoint]

25. Kick.