I don't know where to post this....

[kurtzapril4]

So I'm posting it here, because it's kind of random. Excuse my randomness.

Here in Wauconda, IL, we have a local Tea Party branch. Called the Liberty Street Patriots (Liberty street is also Rte. 176). Now, the town I live in, Wauconda, is a little back-water town....it used to be a resort town until the railroad went away, in the 30's or something. We have a big lake in the middle of town, and there were all these little vacation cabins around it...until they were torn down in 2007 to make lake-front properties for wealthy people. Then the economy crashed, the lots are un-sold...and they're loaded with no tresspassing signs.

It's still what I would call a lower middle class kind of place. Blue collar, hockey watching, beer drinking salt of the earth people like myself. I don't drink beer or watch hockey, but I'm unemployed, and a former musician. I think you get where I'm coming from.

The chapter head of the Liberty Street Tea Party lives in Barrington, IL. Barrington, Barrington Shores, are enclaves of the wealthy. It's a place of huge houses on huge lots...I believe it's zoned for 5 acres for each house. Horse country. Now, in this area, because land is so expensive, you have to have money or land to own a horse. If you have land here, you have money. If you have money, you have land. If you have money and no land, you board your horse/s. The least you will pay for boarding around here is $400 a month.

So, the head of the Tea Party for my little lower middle class town is a wealthy dude who lives in Barrington. He has apparently been reading Ayn Rand lately, and discovered the word "collectivist," because it's in every e-mail, several times, from them. They give out copies of The Fountainhead at every meeting.

The capper? His last name is Nutter. NUTTER.

[libodem]

1. Perfect name

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Truth is almost always stranger than fiction, isn't it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Omigod, that is hilarious!

His last name is NUTTER?




You can't make this shit up, can you?

[kurtzapril4]

4. I only wish I was so creative! n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

5. So glad you posted this...it's hilarious.

[kurtzapril4]

6. Well thank you!

I think sometimes that real life is so funny that I don't need to embellish at all!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

7. But, you'd be amazed at how many people

would miss the humor in this. I had friends who lived in Barrington before moving to NJ...most definitely a 'high rent' district.

[NightWatcher]

8. Many in my family have become tea heads

One is a retiree from the us army corps of engineers.
One is a current employee of the USPS.
Etc etc

They all are dependent on the government that they scream should be drowned in a bath tub.

It baffles, the amount of humorous bullshit that they don't seem to grasp.

[surrealAmerican]

9. It's the sort of name that, when you read it in a work of fiction, ...

... you just groan. It's way too obvious for fiction, but if you see it in real life, it'll make you smile.