So we have a new trend on our hands. Everywhere you look, it's all over the place. It's all over the news. It's all over the internet (and not just the 'sleazy' parts) and making it's way to your household. It's a new fad that is sweeping across the nation. It's called..... wait for it.... "Tea Bagging!"
Now, from what I gather, these "tea parties" are a way for the GOP's to protest tax increases on the wealthy (or taxes in general?) by mailing tea bags into the IRS and government officials like our President and others.
But somehow this phrase went from referring to the tea parties, to referring to the people themselves as "tea baggers".
I have a confession to make: I love all this talk about "tea bagging". Every time I hear it, I get a huge grin on my face. I don't think a day goes by where I don't hear the term being said either on the news networks or on the blogsphere. It's just everywhere.
Between watching Rachel Maddow mock the phrase openly and being a regular news item on the interwebs, I just have been laughing my ass off at how one bad choice of phrase has turned the GOP wingnuts into a laughing stock. Again.
So the question really remains: Do any of these "tea party" organizers really know what the term "tea bagging" means?
When they talk about sending tea bags to Washington officials, or "teabagging the White House", do they know what they are saying?
For the older ones, or for the Red State spys, I'll give you the official definition from the Urban Dictionary:
1. teabagging
To have a man insert his scrotum into another person's mouth in the fashion of a teabag into a mug with an up/down (in/out) motion.
2. teabagging
v. To lower one's scrotum into another's mouth.
3. teabagging
the insertion of one man's sack into another person's mouth. Used a practical joke or prank, when performed on someone who is asleep, or as a sexual act.
Of course, this all boils down to balls. Anytime you hear about these tea parties or teabaggers you automatically think of the sexual act involving balls.
But do they know this? I'm asking this question seriously because I want to know if they knew about this phrase before using it to describe their activity.
And if they don't know it yet, should we let them in on the joke?
I know some will say that we are just juvenile, perverted to think of the sexual act of 'tea bagging' instead of the serious protest involving tea and taxes. But how can anyone take them seriously when their protest immediately makes a person think of balls?
And the phrase teabagging has been around so long now, I can only assume that they either knew about it and went ahead anyway --- or are so clueless that they chose the term with no idea of the meaning behind it.
All this talk about teabagging has left me with horrible visuals of our guys on Faux Noise and what they fantasize doing to other people. And of course, I visualize balls. Balls everywhere.
What do you guys think? Should we let them in on the joke?
UPDATE: Gooners suggested I add this clip from the State. Here is the video: