Teabagging

[Strike For The South]

You're supposed to do this to women? Well...heh....ohhhhhhh

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Everything I know about American history I learned from Fallout 3, my teacher was named Abraham Washington and he told me:

"On July the 4th 1776, a group calling themselves the Second Judgemental Congress got together at For McHarry in Maryland. After a ceremony which ended with Paul Revere singing the famous battle hymn known as the National Anthem, the document was signed. From there, it was sent to England by plane presumably and presented to King George himself. Thus began the Evolutionary War."
- Abraham Washington

He told me this after I managed to blast my way through DC and retrieve the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence for him.

Proof positive that Vin Deisel's "XXX" character was correct.

[Lemur]

I'm getting sick of letting every urban dictionary definition, or anything close to an urban dictionary term, dominate discourse like this.

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

Disgraceful. What is this world coming to?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

Disgraceful. What is this world coming to?

Any time now, some enterprising searcher for recreational internet "video" will input the term MILF and tumble across this thread as one of the "hits." No doubt he'll be disappointed that you didn't provide a linkee to the Motorway homepage.

[Gregoshi]

Then I'll just add the word Halo to this thread so we get some hits for those "halo + teabagging" searches. Here's an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 thrown in for good measure. Wii, this is fun.

On topic: actually, I think the Republicans are just sandbagging at the moment...which sounds a lot more painful than teabaggin'.

[Lemur]

I hate to burst anyone's bubbles, but to the best of my knowledge Google does not index the Backroom. It's invite-only, so their spiders can't crawl back here.

There is no way to search the Backroom. People never believe this, but it's true. If you want to find an old thread you have to do it the old-fashioned way, page by painful page.

[LittleGrizzly]

I can confirm what Lemur said... makes it hard to find things... and what makes it even harder is when you imagined whatever your looking for in the first place.... that was a fun day...

ohhh and this topic is full of awesome...

Teabagging FTW!

[Gregoshi]

Lemur, Destroyer of Dreams...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

By ignoring all of his post except that specific part you seem to have just proven his point...

[Lemur]

By ignoring all of his post except that specific part you seem to have just proven his point...

Would it be safe to say he teabagged me?

[KukriKhan]

It would be safe, in my little deluded world, to think that 'teabagging' and 'MILF', terms now accepted for usage in my politics-religion-and-culture-backroom...

were tolerated. And laughable.

But hey, I'm just an old guy, out of touch with the cool, hip kids.

Next up: 'corn-hole-ing', 'douche-ing', 'felch-ing'. Hey, It was on TV, so it must be OK, right?











I accept my deserved warning points, standing.

[Fragony]

Good thing you don't know about plompzakken and swaffelen.

[KukriKhan]

Good thing you don't know about plompzakken and swaffelen.

You Whacky Canadians and your crazy cabin-fever remedies.

LOL

[Banquo's Ghost]

Gentlemen,

Let's not test the limits of international double-entendre too far, please.

Remember, we're a PG-13 site and there might be Republicans reading.

[Fragony]

But it is our word of the year! To swaffel is to hit an object with a top-heavy penis, made famous by a dutch student who swaffeled the Taj Mahal.

[Lemur]

Okay, that may have been the best tebagging pun ever. Some talking head on cable just said, "And in Cavuto's defense, if you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you‘re going to need a Dick Armey."

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

You owe me one, Lemur. And that guy goes way above and beyond the call of duty.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Gentlemen,

Let's not test the limits of international double-entendre too far, please.

Remember, we're a PG-13 site and there might be Republicans reading.

Thanks for the smelling salts, Banquo, I'd gotten woozy after those posts. I didn't know there WERE such activities, much less words to describe them. GOP does stand for God's Own Politicians of course, so we simply cannot countenance anyone even thinking in that fashion.

[Don Corleone]

I just want to know if the real Lemur's going to be upset when he finds out that Keith Olbermann has hijacked his .Org account. All I need is a few baseball references to come sneaking in and I'll have enough to go the police.

[Gregoshi]

Gentlemen,

Let's not test the limits of international double-entendre too far, please.

Remember, we're a PG-13 site and there might be Republicans reading.

Don't teas me, bro.

[Lemur]

I just want to know if the real Lemur's going to be upset when he finds out that Keith Olbermann has hijacked his .Org account.

Now wait a cotton pickin' minute, I haven't watched an entire Olberman show (just the usual YouTube clips) but isn't he really serious? Every time I see him he's barking on about how someone is a liar and dishonorable and should fall on their sword if they have any decency, and so forth.

No, no, if you're going to conflate me with an MSNBC character, I'll take the lesbian, please. At least she's funny. And she was the first to really give teabagging a good going-over.

Anybody attended one of these events today? Looks like the ones in D.C. never got the proper permits to do much of anything.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Looks like the ones in D.C. never got the proper permits to do much of anything.

Thats epic fail right there.

[Gregoshi]

Anybody attended one of these events today? Looks like the ones in D.C. never got the proper permits to do much of anything.

It's a good thing those Bostonians back in 1773 had enough foresight to get their permits.

[KukriKhan]

Anybody attended one of these events today? Looks like the ones in D.C. never got the proper permits to do much of anything.

Just got back from one of three(!) in my town. About 60 people, outside the Post Office (safely off federal property), hand-made signs, a little chanting. No speaker.

There's another planned in about a half-hour. I'm thinking of going - it may be larger, being after folks' work-hours, and it's gonna be in what we loosely call "downtown", outside city hall. Wifey took the still-camera with her to her Mom's, so all I can get are cell-phone photos, but I'll try to pull them off that device via bluetooth.

signed,
your intrepid reporter
Kukri

[Lemur]

Cool stuff, Kukri.

Meanwhile, somewhere n America, a dump truck full of tea is driving down an empty road toward an uncertain future ...

Protesters, using a rented truck to haul the million tea bags, began unloading their cargo at the park this morning but were told by officials that they didn't have proper permits and must move the tea . They complied with the order but are still considering what to do with the load.

What will become of the tea truck? Nobody knows. It's like the Flying Dutchman. But full of tea. (I think Lipton's is making out like a bandit on all of this.)

[Gregoshi]

They can't toss it into the harbour either - that would be littering. Trouble is brewing...with cream and two sugars.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Ok-

1. Partisan political organizations "spontaneously" generate an organized and planned event where thousands (not millions) turned out in protest of an increase in taxes of 3% for the richest of Americans, which obviously did not include them. Turns out, the people at these events were ordinary people whose taxes would actually be cut or remain the same under Obama.

2. People show up with signs that say Obama=Hitler and show images of Obama's face over an image of Hitler, and one that said that taxpayers were the "Jews" for Obama's "ovens".

3. Fox News, in its fair and balanced coverage, promotes the event and greatly exaggerates how many people showed up, and dedicated many of their top "journalists" to cover this propaganda and present it as legitimate news. Fox News, today, (not just today...) was nothing more than a political advertisement with commercial sponsorship.

4. MSNBC, the liberal network, poked fun at Fox News and their single minded coverage of a Republican political stunt with their usual journalistic objectivity.

Why is it called news, when the news is generated by the noise organizations themselves and presented as news? It's nothing more than childish taunting and some taunting which crosses the line of being not just REALLY STUPID, but uncivilized hate speech. I particularly liked the Nazi references and the "lynch Obama" references. I also loved Rush Limbaugh's flip flopping on the issue... first Obama didn't do enough, then Obama did his job, and now Obama, IF HE WERE WHITE, would have been a racist killer of innocent black teenagers on the high seas.

Rush Limbaugh makes me gag. MSNBC makes me laugh, but at least I know it isn't news, it's commentary. I hope no one takes Fox "NEWS" as anything more than political commentary from the Republican party, because it has nothing that even remotely resembles news on it.

[KukriKhan]

Well, this is the best I could get with the cell-phone: my sidewalk "neighbors":

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

This event was larger, about 1,500* people by my unofficial estimate (the PD guy I asked said 2,500; I think he doesn't know how to count a crowd; it was about a mile of city sidewalk, with people 2-deep), with lots of enthusiastic car-horn honking by drive-bys. Plenty of American flags, about a dozen "Don't Tread On Me" flags.

Pretty diverse crowd age-race-sex - wise. More younger folks than I expected. All well-behaved and orderly. The guy with glasses in the above pic made up a hand-held sign for his son that read: "I DIDN'T KNOW A SECOND GRADER COULD BE IN DEBT!"; there were mostly hand-made signs, and a few 'professional'-looking ones. I didn't see any signs displaying "hate" slogans, or hear any such talk or chanting.

I was there for about an hour. I have other pics, but they're mostly cars in the foreground that the cell-phone focused on - I'll try to enhance/edit them with my ancient PaintShopPro software, so you can get a better feel for crowd size.

-edit-
*for reference, Escondido's population is about 125,000

[Lemur]

Yeah, Kukri, from what little I read today, it sounded like the protests in Cali were bigger than in Washington.

Meanwhile, the saga of the ghost tea truck continues. Somebody really ought to write a ballad about it:

"We have a million tea bags here, and we don't have a place to put them because it's not on our permit," said Rebecca Wales, lead organizer of D.C. Tea Party. [...] A local think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said it would allow the dumping of the tea bags in its 12th floor conference room instead. Not quite the same impact, though.

[Banquo's Ghost]

1. Partisan political organizations "spontaneously" generate an organized and planned event where thousands (not millions) turned out in protest of an increase in taxes of 3% for the richest of Americans, which obviously did not include them. Turns out, the people at these events were ordinary people whose taxes would actually be cut or remain the same under Obama.

It doesn't matter, this is democracy. Ordinary people feeling so strongly about something that they march out on the streets.

Just what I was bemoaning the lack of a week or so back. It's wonderful.