Boing Boing, John Waters, Teabagging FTW
Well hell. So much for armchair journalism. I blogged this morning about John Waters inventing the term teabagging. My evidence? A bunch of lazy Googling. Freakin' Boing Boing e-mailed him. About all I've got going for me is time stamp: I think Boing Boing's on West Coast time, which means that Xeni Jardin's statement that "nobody has acknowledged how the word first entered popular American slang" is technically incorrect–I acknowledged it at 11:17, a full 12 minutes before she utterly and completely schooled me!
Anyone wanna get some coffee?
5:33 pm
We need some teabagging of the flaccid, impotent DC citizenry to stimulate an uprising & get our medical marijuana votes counted.
2:33 am
Andrew: don't feel so bad. I heard Waters claim he invented the term at a talk he gave in 1999. With my own ears. Apparently since that time he's backpedaled, or realized he must have heard it somewhere before he put it in a movie. I was quite surprised to read that interchange with Xeni Jardin.