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Hawkeswood, 1991Īs drag culture-and particularly black drag culture-gained prominence, so too did this dual meaning use of tea. "Nate" quoted in One of the Children: An Ethnography of Identity and Gay Black Men, William G.
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It could refer to a hidden truth, as Chablis uses it, and it could also refer to someone else's hidden truth-that is, gossip: It appears that T, also spelled tea, had a double-edged meaning in black drag culture.
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(It's worth noting that Chablis herself uses the letter T instead of the word tea in her 1997 autobiography, and glosses it as " my Truth.") T here is short for truth, and her truth is that she's transgender. Lady Chablis quoted in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt, 1994Ĭhablis' interviews in Berendt's book gave the world a peek into the vocabulary of black drag culture. My thing, my business, what's goin' on in my life." In it, he is interviewing The Lady Chablis, a prominent drag performer in Savannah, about her dating life, and she notes that she avoids certain men because they're prone to violence when they "find out her T": One of our early print uses of T comes from John Berendt's nonfiction best seller, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. When it was first popularized in general print, it could be spelled T or tea and it didn't refer to the drink. Like shade before it, tea originated in drag culture, and specifically black drag culture. But it does share an origin point with many other common terms being passed around social media. Wayne Slater September 19, 2017Īll well and good: but what's it all about?Īs we see with many slang words that take off on the Internet, tea didn't originate online. Manafort’s lawyer say the real problem is not that prosecutors have a potential crook’s data - it’s that we know about it. Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid ? September 20, 2017 A more personal Clinton than we've seen - frank and ready to spill all the tea. More than halfway through it, and it's quite good. *quietly sips tea while WSJ reads Facebook aaaalllll the receipts* /bWLirLXxI7- MJ Franklin September 6, 2017 Plenty of skeptical people on Twitter sip tea: But that's none of my business.- Kermit the Frog April 6, 2017īut Kermit isn't the only one with a cup. In fact, it's so popular that it has its own category on the GIF repository, and the famed frog himself has commented on it: One of these is Mario says "buh-bye!" as he throws Bowser, and that's apparently because Bowser is known as King Kooper in Japan, and so the "gay Bowser" line had to be replaced.If you're on the Internet at all, you've likely seen the meme of Kermit the Frog sipping a cup of tea.
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The little-known Super Mario 64 Shindou Pak Taiou version was released in Japan in 1997, a year after the original, and includes some key differences. And, it seems, that's because Nintendo has emulated the Super Mario 64 Shindou Pak Taiou version for the collection. Instead, Mario says "buh-bye!" as he throws Bowser. A fan restoration published in July 2020 makes it sound even more like Mario is saying "gay Bowser".Īs reported by Kotaku, Mario doesn't say "gay Bowser" or anything of the sort in the Mario 64 that's in Super Mario 3D All-Stars on Nintendo Switch. Until April 2019, when Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, took to Twitter to insist Mario is saying "so long kinga Bowser!", but no-one bought that. Time passed, the line became a meme, and we all moved on. Here's how it sounds:įans spent years trying to work out what the dialogue was going for - or even if it was being heard correctly. In the original N64 masterpiece, Mario shouts "so long, gay Bowser!" as he chucks Bowser in the final boss fight. Mario's famous "gay Bowser" line isn't in Super Mario 3D All-Stars' version of Super Mario 64 - and fans are waving a sad goodbye.