Yo Mama so old ....

[InsertBrainHere]

She was an early investor in Apple... the fruit.

She actually robbed Peter to pay Paul.

She was a fluffer for the Kama Sutra.

She got a senior citizen discount to see Birth of a Nation.

Her social security number is 9.

She's the third drawing from the left on the evolutionary chart.

She remembers the mini-mall they tore down to build Stonehenge.

She won't give her real age because she pre-dates counting.

She remembers the best thing BEFORE sliced bread.

Methuselah dumped her for a younger woman.

She remembers when Helen of Troy's face had only launched a couple of ships.

Her favorite hobby: Respiration.

She majored in Spanish. Not the language, the Inquisition.

Pre-menopause, she had geologic periods.

Social life: Not Speed Dating -- carbon dating.

Likes older men, but there are none.

First job: a papyrus route.

She remembers when:

If you looked green around the gills you REALLY did.

Old Faithful was new and unreliable.

Tuesday was hump day.

Incest was just called "sex."

There was only one way to skin a cat.

In school Geology was called Current Events.

The Twin Cities were Sodom and Gomorrah.

Amphibians were just called "show-offs."

[Mistermoonlight]

This particular use of comedy is one that is an important part of African American culture. It's called 'playing the dozens' and really took off in the 1970s.

It's preceded by Jewish humor seen in comics like Henny Youngman, who told similar jokes like 'Take my wife. Please,' and 'My wife is so big that when she sits around the house she sits around the house.'

But I gotta say, the dozens are much funnier, as your post shows. They even have them for science fiction, which I just love:

"Yo mama's so stupid that when the Borg had to choose between assimilating her and a tree, they chose the tree."

"Yo mama's so fat that the passengers of the Millenium Falcon mistook her for a small moon."

[Dislekseyuh]

Yo mama's so fat she gets picked first in dodge ball because all the balls go in orbit.

Yo mama's so fat that she was only able to join the Navy because they needed an aircraft carrier.

Yo mama's so fat that she can roll over to travel across the country.

Yo mama's so ugly that you can find her in the dictionary under "before picture."

[InsertBrainHere]

Nov 10, 2012 17:49:24 GMT -5 Mistermoonlight said:

It's preceded by Jewish humor seen in comics like Henny Youngman

Iteresting that you should mention Jews. I got the ones in my post from Chuck Lorre's web site. While he's not religious, I think he claims Jewish heritage.