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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/06/2010 : 02:44:11
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Here is a collection of the misspelled (and often incoherent) signs that the Teabaggers have displayed. I hope others will post their own personal favorites:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/06/2010 03:29:45
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 04:23:36 [Permalink]
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Respect
are-country
Speak English |
He didn't say anything about writing English. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 04:29:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
Respect
are-country
Speak English |
He didn't say anything about writing English.
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That's a good point. People who can actually write are kinda suspicious, after all. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 04:35:24 [Permalink]
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I was one of those that was brought up to value spelling over content, so when my children were in school, I felt that spelling was not as important to their teachers as it should have been. They thought it more important for children to write something than to learn how to spell the words.
I think we all know very educated, bright people who can't spell their own names, so I guess it's a little juvenile of me to chuckle at some of these, and I wouldn't be chuckling so loud if I agreed with the people holding the signs above. But how could a person who thinks that socialistic policies are so evil be so ignorant of how to spell the word socialistic?
(all content run through Microsoft Works spell checker) |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 05:41:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
I was one of those that was brought up to value spelling over content, so when my children were in school, I felt that spelling was not as important to their teachers as it should have been. They thought it more important for children to write something than to learn how to spell the words.
I think we all know very educated, bright people who can't spell their own names, so I guess it's a little juvenile of me to chuckle at some of these, and I wouldn't be chuckling so loud if I agreed with the people holding the signs above. But how could a person who thinks that socialistic policies are so evil be so ignorant of how to spell the word socialistic?
(all content run through Microsoft Works spell checker)
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I'm one of those picky people, too. I think it's very important to express oneself in fairly standard language, unambiguously and clearly. That requires proper grammar and spelling. I don't always live up to my own standards, but I do try. Usually.
I do think what we see with the serial misspellings among the teabaggers is that they largely represent the dumber and more ignorant of our countrymen. There's no other way to express this: They're mostly idiots inherently incapable of sensing or correcting their own tarditude. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/06/2010 : 06:28:41 [Permalink]
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Rite like a iggnerant bufoon and you readers woll thik of you in that sam lite. And ritly so.
It's a little sad when you think about it, for it speaks volumes about our educational system, especally primary & high schools. That is where children are supposed to learn about these things.
But there funy anyway.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 08:20:22 [Permalink]
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You know, the screwed-up spelling wouldn't be so bad on its own. But these people either noticed it themselves, or somebody had to have told them, and they decided that it would be better to have the sign than not. While dozens (if not hundreds) of their neighbors in the crowd probably have correctly spelled signs expressing the same sentiments. That says something.
Of course, since a lot of these people feel that sex is dirty and a sin, perhaps "no pubic option" is an intended double entendre. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 08:32:52 [Permalink]
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The leader of the teabaggers, Dale Robertson:
note: this is not a photoshop, and where he wrote "niggar" is covering up something else. |
by Filthy
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2010 : 11:38:28 [Permalink]
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On a loosely related matter:
Tea Party Convention forgets US flag, blames hotel staff
By Ron Brynaert
Friday, February 5th, 2010 -- 10:54 am
Perhaps the inaugural National Tea Party Convention was striving for historical accuracy.
On Thursday, Tennessee's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center welcomed "hundreds of conservative activists" on Thursday (See also Invoking ‘literacy test,’ Tea Party opening speaker suggests blacks be kept from voting), who are often referred to as "flag-wavers."
As the Washington Post reports, "The convention's first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention -- nor was there an American flag in the convention hall."
The paper reports that Memphis Tea Party leader and convention spokesman Mark Skoda "blamed the oversight on the hotel staff."
However, since the original Boston Tea Party demonstration occurred three years before Betsy Ross debuted her American flag on July 4th, 1776, the modern day patriots were able to keep it real in an old school vibe.
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"Patriots," eh? I have another, less glamorous name for these conservative clowns, and it ain't "conservative clowns."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 15:15:26 [Permalink]
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Here's something that will peg your irony meter:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/tom-tancredo-tea-partiers-lack-civic
"...And then something really odd happened -- mostly because we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who cannot even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English...put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama."
Tom Tancredo (R) Fmr. Rep., Colorado |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 15:34:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
Here's something that will peg your irony meter:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/tom-tancredo-tea-partiers-lack-civic
"...And then something really odd happened -- mostly because we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who cannot even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English...put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama."
Tom Tancredo (R) Fmr. Rep., Colorado |
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Yes, I saw that. Hello again, Jim Crow!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2010 : 18:35:08 [Permalink]
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Of course, I'm a lot more concerned about whatever fascistic messages do get through the smokescreen of burning, paranoiac stupidity than I am by the misspellings and grammatical errors of their expression. The implicit and explicit no-nothing anti-intellectualism, the racism, the "God Gold & Guns" poster (despite its misspelling of "ingredients") -- all these are chilling.
Still, it's nice to at least be able to delight in the opposition's slobbering stupidity in its ability to convey what they think are ideas. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2010 : 19:21:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
, perhaps "no pubic option" is an intended double entendre.
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I believe I could support a "No pubic option". Especially when it comes to soup. |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 18:28:08 [Permalink]
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| I suppose I should have said "Peg your irony and hypocrisy meters". If we gave this group any type of literacy test, how many people do you think would successfully complete it? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 18:45:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by podcat
I suppose I should have said "Peg your irony and hypocrisy meters". If we gave this group any type of literacy test, how many people do you think would successfully complete it?
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Probably more of them than you'd think, so long as "completing" included eating the pencil and and making a paper airplane out of the test paper.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/07/2010 18:54:26 |
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Teabaggers: Breaking the Spell
