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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?