Comments on: Dear Oxford University Press: Get a clue about “teabagging”

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By: emjem24

emjem24 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:34:49 +0000

OneMonkeysUncle said:

On November 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm, Rob said:
It is a VERY offensive term. And I am angry every time I hear liberals use it…

Mission Accomplished.

Petty is as petty does. Class always rises to the top. Then again, when considering much of what you post OMU, that pretty much excludes you.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:37:18 +0000

Calling a Tea Party member a “teabagger” is equivalent to calling Obama “boy”.

By: spaceycakes

spaceycakes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:47 +0000

Of course a sh*t-stabber would use a term like ‘teabagger’

By: rocketman

rocketman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:11 +0000

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Long ago in the Army I heard the term HUM JOB and wondered what it was. Another soldier explained that it was a Marine Corps term for a perverted “tea bag” trick done while the person–of either sex–performing it hummed the FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA tune the Gyrines like.
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Sometimes military service “broadens” your horizons! Let’s lose this term.
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John Bibb
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By: Grand Rants

Grand Rants — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:16 +0000

Keep a Civil Tongue in Your Head…

I’ve had enough. Starting back in March and April, when the whole concept of the Tea Parties was in its infancy, the wits and wags on the left decided to take a page from Saul Alinsky’s playbook and bring ridicule to bear on the whole endea…

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:07 +0000

“in allusion to” not “an allusion to”?

By: TigerLady

TigerLady — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:31 +0000

Rob said:
Once you really understand the meaning, you can be INCENSED at the use of it in this sentence!

I totally agree. I am incensed when I hear anyone using this term to describe people who are using their right as an American to descent.

I don’t agree that we should find a term to use on the left. Vulgar is vulgar.

By: Dave Turson

Dave Turson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:46:06 +0000

Googling through several articles, it appears the “Word of the Year” is chosen by Americans. Some UK citizens may be involved, but it’s handled through the Oxford University Press USA as a promotional gimmick for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Rebecca Ford (senior OUP blog editor) sees it as a good time to cause a few giant ripples in the blogosphere.

I often joke that Oxford Word of the Year is the happiest time of year for me because it always sets off a tsunami. Whether our audience likes the word we pick or not, everyone feels they have to comment. It always leads to tons of new relationships with blogs.

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:07:18 +0000

Old Country Boy, you are wrong and Al is right.

That you do not see this is a reflection on your lack of common sense.

Or, as has been speculated here already, you are a troll.

By: locnetwork

locnetwork — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:20:00 +0000

I wonder how many #1 bestsellers Mr. Taibbi has written?

Having a #1 Bestseller, no matter who wrote it, is not a strong indicator of talent. It just means that enough people bought a possibly horrid book to make it #1.

Michelle might be a great read. Dan Brown is not, and a bajillion people bought the unreadable Da Vinci Code.

Either way, Matt Taibbi probably doesnt care. He’s just happy to get noticed in amongst all the Seagram’s ads in that craptastic magazine.

By: Old Country Boy

Old Country Boy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:38:26 +0000

zorro – some people are born wise, some otherwise. I think you fit into the latter category. Can’t you get off of calling highly educated people who deal with language everyday “ignorant slobs” just because they don’t know your bathroom idiom? Their job is not to tittilate the Holden Caufields of this world, but to serve as a clearinghouse of appropriate English words. However, I suspect they don’t care that you think they are ignorant or don’t change their underwear.

By: dan708

dan708 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:18:54 +0000

Matt Taibbi called MM a “GOP spokesclown”? That’s the most unkindest cut of all!

By: zorro

zorro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:17:09 +0000

On November 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm, Old Country Boy said:
…Maybe the Oxford dons (in Angleterre, England, Albion) know more about it than you.

I doubt it. They are just ignoant slobs, plain and simple.

By: Flyoverman

Flyoverman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:05:41 +0000

They have to use these terms. They have nothing to counter our ideas and we are currently, soundly and repeatedly, kicking their “single point of contact.”

We have the initiative, we have the momentum, we have seized the Marketplace of Ideas. We need to stay focused and keep hammering away.