“First popularized within Halo 2 multiplayer competitive matches, teabagging is a controversial practice where the player’s avatar repeatedly crouches over a defeated player’s ‘body’ in order to simulate rubbing his or her genitals over the avatar’s body” [our hyperlink] By way of a recent essay for the academic journal Games and Culture, the first (and […]
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Teabagging and Coining
“The Tea Bag Experiment: More Evidence on Incentives in Mail Surveys,” Mike Brennan, Janet Hoek, and Philip Gendall, International Journal of Market Research, vol. 40, no. 4, 1998, pp. 347–52. The authors report [AIR 16:2]: This paper reports the results of a study which compared the effectiveness of a tea bag and a $1 coin […]
Teabagging: Removing the sog
This technical drawing may appear to show a way to dry out soggy underwear. It may turn out to be a method to dry out soggy underwear. But the specified use is otherwise. The patent document explains [AIR 16:2]: “Teabag Squeezer and Holder”, U.S. patent #3550528, granted to Thomas Montague O’Neill, December 29, 1970: Heretofore, […]
Teabagging in the Name of Science
Political teabagging and sexual teabagging have attracted lots of controversy recently, but a lesser-known variety — research teabagging — has much to recommend it. In case you have not encountered the word “teabagging”, here’s some linguistic background. Political teabagging takes its name from a twisted, angry dip into American/British history: the “Boston Tea Party” anti-tax […]