Ernest "Tea" Bass

[gmoney]

I think this guy may be the inspiration for all the Tea Party window breakin' -- I doubt any of them are edumacated enough to have heard of kristallnacht.

It's hillbilly civil disobedience, pure and simple.

[gmoney]

1. Wow, nothing!

I thought I'd figured it out!

[stuntcat]

2. lol right on, only..

Only thing is, I'm descended from the Basses of NC, where this man's from. Ernest T. is supposed to be my cousin or something lol

Those people are dangerous knuckle-draggers, they make me ashamed of the beautiful South. Someone needs to get them drunk and start a tickle fight and drive them back to their homes/gun warehouses.

[caitxrawks]

8. :-o

WE
MUST
BE
RELATED!!!!

Because *I* am one of the Basses from NC! :D

[stuntcat]

11. omg COOL!

My grandpa was Marshall Bass, and I have uncles named Jimmy and Joe Bass. Joe died though : (
My Grandma did a lot of genealogy but all on her family, the Walterses, so I don't know that much about the Basses.
My Mom was a Bass then married a Britt, so I was a Britt. Then I married a Hunt, he's Lumbee Indian. Being from NC you might hear the Lumbee's names, Hunt, Locklear, Chavis etc.

By now I'm a few generations away but definitely NC Bass!! :headbang: Like maybe my mama knew your mama LOL

[caitxrawks]

12. awesome :D

My dad was the Bass in the family. Paul Bass is my grandpa, but I can't remember for the life of me what his dad and mom were called. My grandma is a Helms. My uncle (my dad's brother) traced our family back to the 1800s or something like that. We've lived in Mooresville and the surrounding area for pretty much forever LOL

How cool xD And here I thought that I was the only liberal in these parts :)

[Auggie]

3. I see is one of the great icons of '60s television,

played by the magnificently talented Howard Morris

[gmoney]

5. Yeah, Ernest was actually a fairly kind-hearted guy underneath all the rock throwing

But, as Barney would always say, "He's a NUT!"

But it did remind me of the current TP thinking... don't like something, throw a rock through a window.

[caitxrawks]

4. LOL my maiden name is bass.

My grandparents used to love him because he had the same last name as us. I THINK (if I remember correctly) that there was a real Ernest Bass in my family at one point. My uncle did the genealogy thing.

[peekaloo]

6. but he did it out of love.

:rofl:

[Heidi]

7. "I'm a little mean, but I make up for it by bein' real healthy."

- Ernest T. Bass

:rofl:

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. The only similarity between Ernest and the Tea Baggers is the brick...

Ernest was a lovable, kind soul who just wanted to be loved. Tea Baggers are mean, vile people who love being hated. Ernest threw bricks in pursuit of love. Tea Baggers throw bricks to terrorize, threaten and coerce. And I'd be willing to bet that Ernest's IQ was 50 points higher than a typical tea bagging moron.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Brill!