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To: average joe who wrote (536)	4/10/2009 11:01:31 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1134

But can she get candle wax off a stone hearth?

To: average joe who wrote (536)	4/11/2009 6:04:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1134

What about Wiccan high priestess?

To: average joe who wrote (536)	4/13/2009 7:32:44 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1134

Clued in "Queen of Teabaggery" needs to be added to the list I see. LAst week, I read a reference about Rachel Maddow and the MSNBC crowd laughing about "teabagging". I had to look it up on google to see what this was. I'd never heard of it before. I'm still not sure which of two weird practices I read about are the right definition of teabagging. And I don't want to know, so if anyone knows, don't bother cluing me in. Now I see our favorite View threadster is laughing that the ignorance of conservatives like me on this score is a sign of our cluelessness. He probably meant the far right- it IS embarrassing to watch the naive people talking about Tea Bagging their representative (for example), and then getting mad when they find out what tea bagging is. :-) I mean on the one hand you feel sorry for them, but on the other you think "My god, that person is out of it." Or seeing them go on and on about an ACORN conspiracy ACORN knows nothing about. That is crazy stuff. Of course I think it's perfectly fine to make fun of it all- so I have to disagree with him on the making fun part. Humor is the best sanity enforcer we have. No one wants to follow people so nutty that most people laugh at them. And that's a good thing. There are plenty of conservatives who aren't embarasingly clueless, and who do not subscribe to the right wing conspiracy du jour- but they don't seem to post much on SI, and they certainly aren't the shock jocks of the right who dominate the radio. Message 25567225 She is talking about a conversation that Manymoose, myself, Lindybill, KLP and maybe a few others took part in on PfP - talking about the tea party protests and the possibility of sending tea bags or the little pieces of paper attached to them to our represntatives as a protest. None of us used the phrase "teabagging" per se. Her mind, like the illustrious Rachel Maddow and her MSNBC crowd, made the connection to "teabagging" and her imagination filled in from there. Re the Divine Mrs X laughing at how clueless we are. Guess what. I'm glad and proud I didn't know what it was. Being up on every freaky sexual practice and the gay term for it, is that some mark of intellectual distinction, a sign of sophistication? I suspect in many liberal circles it is what passes for sophistication. I suppose its big of X if she lets her hubby (and friends and strangers) do this to her (imo anything a married couple do in bed is ok if they're happy with it) but why he'd want to I don't know. I'm not a prude but this is something I've never had a desire to do or thought about doing or wondered if there was a name for. Personally I think its weird of someone to think that everyone in the country is up on "teabagging" and that that weird sexual practice springs to mind whenever they hear tea party or tea bag. Who's the real weirdo here? The people unaware of some strange offbeat sexual proclivity or the one who's mind immediately jumps to that from mentions of tea parties? Now I'm wondering if I'll think of this "teabagging" thing now whenever I see X or cosmicfarce's posts (like, 'oh, they're the people who do that')?