Teabonics

Subject: Teabonics
From: Arkie
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 05:15 PM

I had an email today about teabonics and the revolution taking place in American spelling and grammer. I tried to check it out on Snopes but kept running across sites such as this.

Teabonics

Is this for real or is someone going to a lot of trouble to embarrass the teaparty movement?

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Arkie
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 05:16 PM

Sorry, this is supposed to go below the line.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 05:37 PM

Thanx4dis, an I thort tha BNP wer dum an igorent?

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 05:39 PM

It's the Moron Majority.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: mousethief
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 06:26 PM

Arkie: I had an email today about teabonics and the revolution taking place in American spelling and grammer.

GrammAr.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 06:38 PM

Tea Party Flag

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Alice
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 07:31 PM

I had posted previously in another thread about Teabonics and a link to the photos.
I didn't know it was already making the email rounds.
Teabonics refers to the flikr photo page that shows signs with spelling and grammar errors from Tea Party gatherings. The person who put up the flikr page called it Teabonics.


Alice

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM

I liked the sign that read "Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare!"

Spelling and grammar have been lost causes for years; now civics is going the same way.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 08:38 PM

The meek shall inherit the earth... Heck, I thought it was gonna be the cockroaches but the cockroaches better beware 'cause the Tea Partiers are gonna roll right over them...

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Apr 10 - 08:43 PM

A new form of government:

Idiocracy.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 Apr 10 - 10:57 AM

Yesterday, as I drove past mylocal post office, I saw a couple of guys on the curb trying to drum up support to impeach Obama. When I asked what impeachable offenses he had committed, other than being Black and passing health care reform, they had no answers. They don't seem to understand the concept of "High crimes and misdemeanors."

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Apr 10 - 06:16 PM

They don't seem to understand much of anything at all.

Yet the Repubs can't pander to 'em fast enough.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 10 - 06:50 PM

I think illiteracy is a pre-cursor to the kind of superstitious thrashing and hatred these folks sometimes go in for; down underneath their bitterness may come from a desperate inability to understand.


A

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Riginslinger
Date: 11 Apr 10 - 09:02 PM

Yeah, superstition is a problem, all right. No wonder there's always so much turmoil in the Middle East.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 03:52 AM

"I think illiteracy is a pre-cursor to the kind of superstitious thrashing and hatred these folks sometimes go in for; down underneath their bitterness may come from a desperate inability to understand."

Spot on! - just read the BS threads here - especially the mindless anti-GW/CC crap!

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 07:07 AM

There's a high degree of illiteracy to be seen in the UK's counterparts: barely educated, very right-wing, undisguised racism, working-class (or underclass), often in run down areas, low or no employment, absence of independent or critical thought, readily manipulated by hate-filled media propaganda, angry lynch mob 'scapegoating' village mentality...

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 05:07 PM

Maybe they should revive the old name for this kind of movement, and call themselves Know Nothings...

I rather liked the one saying "Respect Are Country - Speak English"

It's fun clicking on the option for slide-show, and seeing how many of the mistakes you can pick up as they flash by.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 06:23 PM

Actually, the American Party, waggishly styled the "Know Nothing" party,
aside from its unfortunate anti-immigration stand, was quite progressive on issues of the day - including an anti-slavery stance- & in many of the States where it was in power enacted very worthwhile legislation.

Hardly the same as the Tea Party - a.k.a. the Raving Looney Party- which operates in a delusional and fact-free environment.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 03:58 PM

I suppose it depends on what you mean by " quite progressive"...

"Know Nothings were not content to attempt to bring about their agenda through peaceful means. Intimidation meant to keep Catholics away from the ballot box came to a head on August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky. In a hotly contested race for the office of governor of that state, Know Nothings killed 22, injured many more, and destroyed property." (From the Wikipedia entry, for convenience. But the account appears to be accurate enough.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Stringsinger
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:18 PM

The Teabaggers don't understand the history behind the Boston Tea Party. East India Tea
tried to put the local tea producers out of business. It had nothing to do with condemning local government.

No tea bags then either.

The frustration is obviously misplaced by a lot of hot-headed people who don't really
know what's going on.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:27 PM

Stringsinger: The Teabaggers don't understand the history behind the Boston Tea Party.

You could just abbreviate that and say the Teabaggers don't understand history. Or civics. Or science. Or maths. Or the correct way to use the English language. Or .... you get the idea.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:47 PM

The English and history espoused by teabaggers has much the same quality as that in many posts on Mudcat. Don't see much to choose between.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 05:36 PM

When Mudcatters strap guns to their legs and go to town hall meetings wearing shirts claiming that blood needs to be spilt, that might become relevant.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 06:39 PM

I suppose it depends on what you mean by " quite progressive"...

It also depends, Kevin, on where you get your information.

Instead of sound-bites from "Blog-O-Pedia", you might try an actual history book dealing with mid-nineteenth century U.S. political parties & trends.

I'd be happy to recommend several if you're interested.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 07:01 PM

Bloody Monday

Well, maybe it never happened.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:57 PM

What does 'Bloody Monday' of 1855 have to do with the subject at hand?
A mighty stretch too far.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 09:34 PM

Again Kevin, that's a single incident, a sound bite, and hardly an even-handed analysis of the whole program and history of the American Party.

Tell ya what- maybe the Tea Partiers should call themselves
"The Gordon Party" - the anti-Catholic mob that Lord George whipped up killed and injured over 450 persons if I recall, destroyed a whole bunch of Catholic churches and damn near the Houses of Parliament.

That sounds more like the Tea Party, don't it?

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 09:43 PM

And by the by, Kevin, "Everything2" is another blog with even less credibility than Blog-O-Pedia.

If you really can't abide the printed word, there ARE some useful & authoritative on-line history reference works & encyclopedias.

Subject: RE: Teabonics
From: Greg F.
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 09:13 PM

Here you go, Kevin (and anyone else interested) try this for a start:

Anbinder, Tyler G.:Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s. Oxford University Press, USA 1994

Plenty more where that came from.