This is pretty awesome- an entire Flickr theme dedicated to “creatively” spelled signs at teabagger rallies, which have been cleverly named “teabonics”:
There is a whole lot of win here.
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This is pretty awesome- an entire Flickr theme dedicated to “creatively” spelled signs at teabagger rallies, which have been cleverly named “teabonics”:
There is a whole lot of win here.
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IndyLib
The “o” in congress looks like an animated sperm.
I see on closer inspection that it’s supposed to represent a pig. These idjits can’t draw either.
MikeJ
You damned prescriptivists. English is a living language, and however people use it is the proper way.
licensed to kill time
Yay! Blog war below makes my head hurt.
R-Jud
I clicked through a few of those and then saw someone I swear is related to me.
Time to start drinking heavily.
Mark S.
I guess the “O” is supposed to be a pig (it’s saying “oink”) but it looks like a sperm cell.
Reposting because it got lost in the Jane Hamsher civil war thread
Yeah, I can see why Brown wanted to be reimbursed. On the other hand, I don’t see how this part of the story really affects Michael Steele. I don’t expect him to know where every dollar goes, and they seem to have fired the people involved.
Mark S.
@IndyLib:
We saw the same thing.
JGabriel
Wonkette:
Moral of the story: Never give money to the RNC. Eventually, it will become public, and deeply embarrassing, and destroy your business and social life.
Which, to be fair, is a just punishment.
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Paris
Somebody spent a lot of time to warn that Scholiast policies may be ruining us. I wish I knew what that meant.
Marc
A few favorites:
“Youth in Asia will kill your Grandma.”
Who knew?
“I didn’t serve 22 years for Socialism”
Nope, that was for killing those nuns…
“Feedom doesn’t come free”
But it does come with a modest fee!
pharniel
OT looks like the minute men are closing up shop.
Osprey
That O is supposed to be a pig…you can put lipstick on a sign…there’s a joke somewhere but I doubt I’ll think of it.
And Repeel.
And that website…do they let their damn kids draw those signs? Did most of these people drop-out before the 4th grade?
If ignorance is bliss these people must shit fruity-smelling rainbows.
Tonal Crow
@Mark S.: “Young Eagles event”? I sense further scandal, but maybe it’s just my crystal ball going flaky.
Punchy
What the fuck is black oval on the “L” supposed to be?
Legalize
My favorites are the ones where someone tried to fix the nonsense scrawled out on the signs, but only succeeded in contributing more hilarity to the Flickr stream. And for that, I thank … someone.
JGabriel
Osprey:
I can’t possibly imagine that these people are multi-cultural in their guts. It’s against everything they stand for!
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R-Jud
@Punchy: It looks like it is a crayon making a check mark. As in checking a box to vote.
But I’m not sure. I will drink some more and then get back to you.
Bill E Pilgrim
Wait but shouldn’t it be called “Ivoronics” in this case?
Or maybe “Deliveronics”
celticdragonchick
@IndyLib:
You beat me to it. I was going to say it looked like Red State sperm. :P
williamc
Teabonics!
I love it!
One of the things that makes the teatards feel so superior to everyone, I’ve found, is that they aren’t “like those young bucks from the streets butchering the English language and living on the gubmint’s tit” (an actual quote from a tea partier I wish I didn’t know). Except most of them are old fucks butchering the English language and living on the gubmint’s tit..
licensed to kill time
You’d think if you felt so strongly about something that you were willing to create a sign and hold it in public that you’d spend a few seconds checking your spelling.
I like the one that tells Mexicans to respect “are” country and learn English.
Also, Beck guest host says tanning bed tax is racist to light skinned Americans.
freelancer
James Wolcott:
some other guy
@Mark S.:
It does, however, paint the RNC as a bunch of spendthrift libertines rather than the fiscal and social conservatives they pretend to be.
Remember, this was a group of RNC staffers, fundraisers, donors, and marketers who dropped $2k at a sex club, not just one rogue employee attempting to embezzle funds for his own benefit.
Sentient Puddle
Wasn’t there a study a few months back that said teabaggers were more educated than common perception?
JGabriel
@celticdragonchick:
It does, which is ironic because it’s hard to look inbred before you’re bred.
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ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Say what you will about the tenents of teabaggism, at least they have a work ethnic.
Chyron HR
Oh, @ ! # ? @ !, it’s one of those snakes from Q*bert! The Teabaggers are courting hipsters to form an unbeatable political coalition.
Mark S.
@Tonal Crow:
I think they took that name because they already had a theme song.
(I hope I used the right YouTube. I know John is touchy about this)
asiangrrlMN
@IndyLib: Looks like Kenny from South Park to me.
Repeel? Like the Congress was a bunch of bananas?
@Sentient Puddle: Well, my common perception is that they have no education, so any would be considered ‘more’, I guess.
@Mark S.: I hate you for that. I didn’t even have to listen to it before I started cringing.
mai naem
This is what happens when you go on the Hooked On Palins program.
wasabi gasp
Repeel ain’t no wurd ‘cuz m’gessin’ thain’t meny stuffs you’d be a’peelin’ moor then th’ 1 time, xseptin’ fer my scabs.
Sentient Puddle
@asiangrrlMN: Fair point. After all, they did draw symbols that resemble characters in the English alphabet on those signs.
asiangrrlMN
@Mark S.: Aaaaand because I’m a masochist, I am now listening to it. I hate myself even more.
I’m askeered going through the Flickr photo stream. It’s like my worst nightmare come true.
P.S. I just sent in my census form today. If you don’t hear from me in the future, you know they got me.
Evinfuilt
@Tonal Crow:
I just love that to be a Young Eagle, you just have to be 45 or younger.
The only requirement to be Young Republican is you’ve only had one mid-life crisis.
freelancer
“Yes God-
Thank You Fox-News For Keeping Us Infromed”.
Bill E Pilgrim
@asiangrrlMN:
No I think they’re talking skin care.
Sly
As an upside for them, if Teabaggers ever decided to post on a WP blog, they’d get past the moderation filter without even trying.
Legalize
I must say that I am worried about the youth in Asia killing people. That’s something we need to address.
asiangrrlMN
@Sentient Puddle: Yep! My fave so far is “This is America and our only lanaguage is English”.
@Mark S.: Holy shit that song is fucking long. It just won’t end.
@Bill E Pilgrim: Snert. How very metrosexual of you! Then again, you are living in France, an ebbil sockulist country if there ever was one.
dmsilev
@Legalize: I thought that was the sort of thing that got DFHs into the streets 30 years ago. Have we come full circle?
-dms
Mark S.
@asiangrrlMN:
Jeez, do we need to stage an intervention?
WereBear
@licensed to kill time: Yes, I read that thing on the tanning bed tax being racist. Is Glen Beck now roiling in envy?
It is sad that they are ignorant, but it is not unusual. It seems impossible that anyone who reads or writes fairly often would make these kinds of mistakes. So I can only assume they listen to right wing radio and read Mallard Fillmore.
Cat Lady
OK, I’m so lost on the first word – what’s the deal with Repeel? Is it deliberately misspelled? Why the shaky ‘ee’s? What’s that L supposed to be? Is the sign supposed to be so obtuse? Does it reflect it’s maker’s mental prowess? How much thought went into that sign, and didn’t that person have more than 30 seconds to make it? Why does this make me so crazy? What’s so fucking hard about making a hand made two word sign? [insert Dean scream here]
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Marc:
Nope, but he did serve 22 years in the largest socialist system in the country. The irony.
Tonal Crow
@Evinfuilt:
Wow. I guess the GOP really is our fathers’ party.
me
“i before e except after c”
Martin
@Evinfuilt: Obama just missed the deadline. Too bad.
SkepticRising
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Yeah. Damn shame they didn’t apply a little of that work ethic to learning English as a first language. Or maybe to learning a little history. Or perhaps even finding out what socialism actually means.
All you can do with these guys is point and laugh.
GReynoldsCT00
@Punchy:
bullet, voting check mark, all the same to Caribou Barbie
RELOAD!
Martin
@GReynoldsCT00: One man, one vote. One shot, one kill. Same thing?
asiangrrlMN
@Mark S.: I am watching Olbermann now. A good tonic. But, still. My ears cannot unhear what has been heard.
I gotta say, Markos is on Olbermann, and I have been enjoying his commentary as of late.
@Cat Lady: Deep breaths! Pet a cat or two! Don’t look at the feed. I had to quit because of the egregious spelling errors (and the sheer hypocrisy of their stupidity).
daryljfontaine
@Bill E Pilgrim: Moronics.
D
demkat620
@Punchy: I think it is either a peeler or a switchblade. Take your pick.
Calouste
Looking through those pictures, I’m surprised they haven’t started spelling “Congress” with runes at the end yet. But then again, even that would require more literacy and history than most teabaggers can manage.
David in NY
@Cat Lady:
With all that analysis, I was gonna ask if you were an English major, but then I spotted the apostrophe in “it’s”, and now I’m really confused.
Tsulagi
I like this one from Mayor Chester…
Now is it a matter of a missing p, or did Chester drop an r? NO EXCRETIONS meaning NO SHIT, but Chester wanted to keep it clean? Hard to tell with those immersed in teathought.
EEH
@asiangrrlMN: Not to worry, the guys in the black helicopter who dropped off our census form and picked it up later were as nice as can be.
Larv
@Marc:
@Legalize:
No, I think they’re referring to Youth in Asia, the ’80s punk band. I hadn’t realized they’d reformed, let alone that they were going around killing grannies, but I suppose anything’s possible. You know what those punk rockers are like.
gex
@asiangrrlMN: I find that this is my favorite coming from Texans, more than a few of whom are proud of their history of coming from those German speaking Texas towns where German was the official language.
There is literally no point they make that isn’t riddled with errors AND hypocrisy.
Bill E Pilgrim
@asiangrrlMN:
I swear the only time I have makeup and perfume on is when it’s rubbed off from someone else.
David in NY
Was not “Youth in Asia” one of Emily Littella’s hearing mistakes?? “What’s all this about Youth in Asia??”
EDIT: And doesn’t it suggest that that sign is a plant?
gex
@WereBear: and this is precisely when their arguments should be thrown back in their faces. This tax covers anyone who goes to a tanning bed, regardless of their skin color. Isn’t it great the law is colorblind?
gnomedad
This guy was just trying to avoid moderation.
kansi
@Tsulagi:
Yes, that is full of LOL. Too bad the town is a few miles down the road from me. But my fave is the Youth is Asia going to kill Grandma. Someone get Chuck Grassley on the phone, stat!
El Cid
The law in its majestic equality allows both light and dark skinned to rest beneath tanning lamps.
daryljfontaine
Oh for crying out loud.
Three sentences. Nearly identical structure. Three different spellings.
YES WE R THAT DUM.
D
Bill E Pilgrim
@gnomedad: I don’t think moderation is something that any of these tea baggers have to struggle to avoid.
Sylvan
Some great teabaggage here in Brooklyn.
GregB
Youth in Asia=Going Khmer Rouge
asiangrrlMN
@gex: No kidding! Stupid stupid stupid. These people should be in remedial school, and yet, they are afforded more media attention than any anti-war protest group ever got.
@Bill E Pilgrim: Bow chick bow bow!
@GregB: Oh, I like!
Mark S.
@some other guy:
Anybody who still thinks the GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility deserves to be parted from their money.
S. cerevisiae
@Legalize: Yes, youth in Asia killing our seniors must stop! I say we send the teabaggers to a suitable place in Asia to investigate.
gogol's wife
I like “lobbyest” and “pollititions,” for their creative misunderstanding of morphemes. A noun becomes a superlative adjective; a noun analogous to “technician” becomes a noun analogous to “abolition.”
El Cid
@asiangrrlMN:
Whut? So thay kin bee wun of them ay-leetis pointee heds wif thur ‘boks’ and ther ‘faks’ an thor haterd of Sarlah Plalin? NO THINKS!
Cat Lady
@David in NY:
You’re right – apostrophe fail. The Dean scream in my head overrode my grammar default settings. The poli sci major in me demands coherency when expressing one’s political belief systems. I wouldn’t think it would be too much to ask, but apparently I would be very very wrong.
YellowJournalism
Set these to some crappy pro-America rock or something equally ironic, and you’ve got yourself one hell of a screensaver.
Okay, I’ve found my favorite. The Obama shirt with the definitions. They spell loses incorrectly twice, quite creatively, and I think that they took the concept from an anti-Bush T-shirt.
Anyone else looking over their comments for mispellings and mistakes so they don’t look like an asshole for calling people out on their mispellings and mistakes? Granted, we’re not holding them up for the cameras in a public place…
Bill E Pilgrim
@asiangrrlMN: What in heaven’s name was that? A chicken barking?
El Cid
social
socialer
SOC|ALEST
David in NY
Random thought: in Firefox when I want to refresh the comments, I have to “RELOAD”.
On that note, good night.
demo woman
@kansi: Many of the signs confused me but that one won the prize.
gogol's wife
@El Cid:
Right. lobby — lobbyer — lobbyest
asiangrrlMN
@El Cid: Damn! You caught on to my nefarious plan.
That means underhanded for any teabagger who is trolling.
@Bill E Pilgrim: That was my soft-porn music background to you getting your groove on.
Dumb
Dumber
Dumbest
That would be the most apt comparison for the teabaggers.
LD50
@Sentient Puddle:
Yes, most of them *have* actually finished junior high school, despite appearances.
MikeJ
@David in NY: You expected to hit cancel?
Tonal Crow
“THE BORROR IS THE SLAVE OF THE LENDER….” http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/4468907993/in/set-72157623594187379/ Oh, the horror!
Lyle4
There’s a teabagger asshole on CNN just now who said Obama hasn’t shown any inclination to read or follow the Constitution.
THEN WHY DID YOU DICKHEADS MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR BEING A FREAKING CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER??????????
I just want to punch them all in the face.
David in NY
@MikeJ:
I thought it was a bit Palinesque, is all.
Bye now.
SadieSue
BTW – in case anyone’s interested & didn’t see my previous notes about the Hutaree dogs who were left tied up at the house (compound?) after the Hutaree were arrested & the various agencies left the area:
The local (to the Hutaree) Humane Society called me back to let me know they thought the Federal government was going to take care of the dogs. I let the woman know what the article said about the dogs still being there so she said she would let their dog officer know & he’d check on them.
Thanks to KRK for finding me the number so I could call. And thanks to all the commenters for their many rescue stories that inspired me to call. I just couldn’t stand the thought that people might have forgotten about the tied up dogs.
Edited to add – & once again I post this on a dead, or soon to be dead, post. My timing is, as always, impeccable. sigh
YellowJournalism
@daryljfontaine: You beat me to it. Ha!
trollhattan
Ah kaint wate fer Apprul fifftean an teh teebagerz decent ahn teh stait kappatal. Ah’ll bee fotograffin’ teh fuun, fur shoor.
Last year’s was a swell introduction, but the movement was so squeaky new and grassrootsy then. (Hey, it’s Cliff Clavin! Ohmagosh, Neil Cavuto!) Now, the random, general anger should be much better coordinated.
Thank you Fox, indeedie.
Calouste
@Lyle4:
And of course the
journalistmedia personality on CNN let that go by without asking for an example where Obama didn’t follow the constitution?Tonal Crow
Then there’s “Carpenters against new tax’s”. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/4469689554/in/set-72157623594187379/ . I feel ambivalent about highlighting this one, because the New York Times style manual might deem it correct. You know, “This Month’s Sales of SUV’s Decline” and all.
Lyle4
@Calouste: Not to mention the CNN “reporter” called the teabagger’s comments poignant.
POIGNANT. Apparently you just have to say stupid shit while sounding kind of sad to be called poignant these days.
jl
I think the first line of the sign is saying that Congress is like a reptilian slithering (therefore, shaky) eel, so we have:
(repeal) the Congressional reptilian eels, who are also spendthrift pigs.
Perhaps also that they are spermatazoan like pigs, not sure about that. That might be filthy thought contamination from the degenerate liberals here at this here lefty blog.
There will be dissertations written on the semiotics and significology of teabonics. I pity those who must read them.
danimal
Thank goodness for this photo montage.
I just got appointed to my local death panel and was wondering where to start.
YellowJournalism
@Lyle4: Most of those guys probably haven’t read it at all. They just rely on what Glenn Beck tells them is in it.
HumboldtBlue
I am almost positive (just don’t ask for any goddamned links) that the Youth in Asia signs were a spoof.
Grammar, spelling and punctuation will be the downfall of this nation yet.
PaminBB
Maybe if they are all good, the Easter bunny will bring them dictionaries.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Cat Lady:It’s okay, compared to the horrors I just saw going through those photos, an apostrophe typo is like smudging a number while writing Fermat’s last theorem from memory.
jl
@Lyle4:
“POIGNANT. Apparently you just have to say stupid shit while sounding kind of sad to be called poignant these days.”
I thought it was always that way in the news media.
Calouste
@Lyle4:
Poignant
–adjective
1.keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
2.keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.
3.affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
4.pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors.
I go for option 4. It stinks.
YellowJournalism
@PaminBB: That would be an interesting counter protest.
Bill E Pilgrim
@asiangrrlMN: Oh good then. I didn’t realize we had a soundtrack! Better put my headphones on, I’m clearly missing half the fun.
asiangrrlMN
@SadieSue: Good on you! Glad to hear that someone is looking out for the animals in this sad sad story.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@IndyLib:
I agree, definitely a sperm.
And in my case, actual size.
El Cid
@Tonal Crow: Nigh there barrer nor linderbee.
Dr. Loveless
@Tonal Crow:
Yeah, but a Boramander outranks a Lukore. You obviously need to switch armies.
asiangrrlMN
@Bill E Pilgrim: Damn right! If you’re gonna groove, then you gotta move. Or something like that.
Bringing dictionaries as a counter-protest? I like the idea. Or, better yet, bring a dry-erase board and go around correcting everyone’s sign. Ha!
El Cid
@Lyle4: The Constitution isn’t something that you learn by reading it and “studying” it. It’s something you learn by just being with the right kind of people.
In fact, it’s better that you not read it, so you don’t get all confused, and let the people who best channel what you’re already thinking tell you what it means and says.
LuciaMia
Were they all rousted out of bed at 4 am and told they had to make a sign ’cause they were off to a Tea Party rally in 5 mins. AND they had to both dress and paint their sign in the dark. Chop-chop!
Only explanation.
some guy
@Mark S.:
The teabaggers are in the process of being conned by FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, and the like into voting for the GOP again in November on just that basis.
I wonder how much Palin and Beck and Hannity can wring from the ignorant pensioners and unemployed before the useful idiots wake up and realize that the GOP has no intention of ever actually making Paul Ryan’s privatization fantasies into reality.
YellowJournalism
@asiangrrlMN: But it’s even better with the whole Easter Bunny motif. “Hi! I’m the Grammar Bunny, and you’re a moron.” (Hands over dictionary/style book) “Here’s how to spell it. Have a nice day!”
asiangrrlMN
@YellowJournalism: Oh my god! I love it. If I wore leather horse bits, do you think I’d get more intention?
@LuciaMia: You win the thread.
Little Dreamer
I can agree with that, can we all jump on that bandwagon and proclaim that there should be no amesty?
Bob L
If the Teabaggers taught us anything, it is “Feedom isn’t Free.”
J
Do the people with ‘socilist’ on their signs think there is something called ‘socity’ and suppose that one can be ‘socil’ with one one’s neighbors or go to a church ‘socil’? If not, and they haven’t grasped the relation between ‘socialism’ and ‘social’, I wonder what they they think the evil ‘socil’ of which ‘socilism’ is the ism is.
Calouste
@LD50:
Does that say more about teabaggers or does it say more about the exit level of junior high?
Nutella
@daryljfontaine:
Not Moronics. It’s Moranics, of course.
MikeJ
Isn’t there anything to talk about today other than drama queens? Every thread. Sheesh.
Linda Featheringill
Looked at all the pictures on “Teabonics.” I found it all rather depressing. And some people complain about young people being functionally illiterate!
russell
“Control our boarder”
These people are giving me a sad.
Woodrowfan
no one has yet noted (and if I missed it, my apologies) that the RNC card was REJECTED…
FlipYrWhig
I think the L in “Repeel” is supposed to be a folding knife. Add in the Oink O, and I think the image is supposed to convey skinning a hog.
chrome agnomen
@Punchy:
i’ll tell you what it is. they started to spell repeal, REPEL, with an exclamation point, then ‘corrected’ the spelling and changed the exc. pt, to an ‘L’.
or something else entirely.
Obamarmy
The TEABAG Movement sweeping across America has forged a new English language vernacular.
A phenomenon that linguists are calling TEABONICS.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/28/851690/-TEABONICS
Bender
Really? You guys want to get into this? Really?
This is the kind of thread that thrives only in HiveMinds…
David in NYC
@Bender #125:
So you found one picture from over 3 years ago, and this is the same as an entire Flickr page devoted to items in the last 12 months?
You teabaggers are really good at the false equivalences, aren’t you?
And yet, here YOU are.
Bender
I don’t think John would let me post 50 links. Tip of the iceberg.
Again, you do not want to get into a discussion of which Party has the bigger morons, not when there’s Democrat congressgenius Hank Johnson!
Tell me again how you guys are the party of SCIENCE!!