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To: bicyclerepair
Tea bag is derogative

The origin of the term "Tory", meaning a member of the Conservative Party in the UK, is the Irish word tóraidhe, or outlaw. Being an Irish term, it also implied, in 17th Century England, that a Tory was a crypto Roman Catholic. The "Whig" of both the UK and American Whig parties came from "whiggamore" or cattle driver. Both parties eventually adopted for themselves a label that had begun as a term of abuse.

52 posted on 02/19/2010 7:22:06 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner
Both parties eventually adopted for themselves a label that had begun as a term of abuse.

I'm less ruffled by tea bag than some (sticks and stones) but the examples you cite are quite different from an explicit pornographic reference.

53 posted on 02/19/2010 7:26:22 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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