Mark Weiss wrote: > Thanks, Alison. I'd missed that one. Not surprising that the gang > missed it too. > > >> The Tea people called themselves Tea Baggers, a phrase coined by FOX >> News, until some delighted bloggers pointed out it was obscene gay >> slang. Which I thought was pretty funny. AFAIK, the person who had the guts to say this out loud was Rush Limbaugh, who was doing a Poor Me about how the Left was mocking the Tea Party attendees by using their ignorance against them. Apparently, Tea Bagger is a lot older than the Tea Party movement. K -- ---------------------------- Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html