Source: Liberalism.org
by Sarah Skwire
The other day, I texted my youngest a reminder to take out the trash. In response I received, ‘sit down theodore.’ I was, to say the least, confused. It turns out that ‘sit down theodore’ had evolved as a complicated joke with a friend about the word ‘noted.’ First it became ‘no ted.’ That transformed into ‘stop it, teddy’ then into ‘enough, teddy.’ That morphed into ‘sit teddy’ and finally ‘sit down theodore.’ The joke became so ingrained in their texting conversations that they set the autocorrect feature on their phones to transform the word ‘noted’ into ‘sit down theodore’ whenever they typed it. All of this explained the text I received, but it also got me thinking about one of the most important aspects of a liberal society — spontaneous order.” (06/18/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/sit-down-theodore-slang-and-spontaneous-order