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10 Apr 10 - 05:15 PM (#2883856) Subject: Teabonics From: Arkie 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? |
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10 Apr 10 - 05:16 PM (#2883859) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Arkie Sorry, this is supposed to go below the line. |
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10 Apr 10 - 05:37 PM (#2883868) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: GUEST,CS Thanx4dis, an I thort tha BNP wer dum an igorent? |
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10 Apr 10 - 05:39 PM (#2883870) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: michaelr It's the Moron Majority. |
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10 Apr 10 - 06:26 PM (#2883895) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: mousethief Arkie: I had an email today about teabonics and the revolution taking place in American spelling and grammer. GrammAr. |
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10 Apr 10 - 06:38 PM (#2883903) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. Tea Party Flag |
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10 Apr 10 - 07:31 PM (#2883932) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Alice 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 |
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10 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM (#2883955) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Rapparee 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. |
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10 Apr 10 - 08:38 PM (#2883957) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Bobert 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... |
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10 Apr 10 - 08:43 PM (#2883960) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Don Firth A new form of government: Idiocracy. Don Firth |
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11 Apr 10 - 10:57 AM (#2884229) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: EBarnacle 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." |
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11 Apr 10 - 06:16 PM (#2884439) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. They don't seem to understand much of anything at all. Yet the Repubs can't pander to 'em fast enough. |
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11 Apr 10 - 06:50 PM (#2884461) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Amos 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 |
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11 Apr 10 - 09:02 PM (#2884513) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Riginslinger Yeah, superstition is a problem, all right. No wonder there's always so much turmoil in the Middle East. |
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12 Apr 10 - 03:52 AM (#2884642) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: The Fooles Troupe "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! |
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12 Apr 10 - 07:07 AM (#2884717) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: GUEST,CS 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... |
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12 Apr 10 - 05:07 PM (#2885040) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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12 Apr 10 - 06:23 PM (#2885083) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 03:58 PM (#2885774) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 04:18 PM (#2885788) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Stringsinger 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 04:27 PM (#2885801) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: mousethief 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 04:47 PM (#2885826) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 05:36 PM (#2885856) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: mousethief 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 06:39 PM (#2885905) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. 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. |
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13 Apr 10 - 07:01 PM (#2885935) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: McGrath of Harlow Bloody Monday Well, maybe it never happened. |
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13 Apr 10 - 08:57 PM (#2886027) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Q (Frank Staplin) What does 'Bloody Monday' of 1855 have to do with the subject at hand? A mighty stretch too far. |
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13 Apr 10 - 09:34 PM (#2886055) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. 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? |
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13 Apr 10 - 09:43 PM (#2886060) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. 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. |
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14 Apr 10 - 09:13 PM (#2886862) Subject: RE: Teabonics From: Greg F. 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. |