Talk:"Yo mama" joke

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Your mom joke

In the spirit of your mom's penis (go wiki!) cock vagina dic bitch ass ho Thank you. Anulith 4/18/2009 BTW Tell your mom I said, "Hi." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anulith (talk • contribs) 03:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Done. Paul1991 (talk) 13:40, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

globally?

Also, their was a show on MTV which pitted people aginst others in a verbal "Yo Momma" (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(Laugh truncated. --Kizor) that show is funny) jokes battle.This show is now canceled. For obvious reasons. preys on the fact that people commonly love and revere their mothers, making the insult particularly and globally offensive. I question that "globally". I'm from Germany, and here mother insults have only recently (<20 years) made it into popular culture due to immigration and hip-hop culture. People with a Northern European background tend to see them as more weird/funny than actually insulting. Which of course doesn't mean that we don't love our mothers, we may just be more relaxed about it. I think it is a cultural thing, comparable to the cultural preference for scatological, sexual or religious swearing. The phenomenon of mother insults is obviously related to gender, family and filial piety, which are not (merely) biological, but cultural traits, thus not globally identical. My impression is that it's correlated with patriarchal societies and also religion, such as Islam and Catholicism.--87.162.26.224 08:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Readers of the Bible and Qur'an as well as those who follow the Eastern concept of filial piety believe that mothers should be honored, not crudely insulted. If this is not "global", please let me know what is. Rlsheehan August 7, 2007

Suck it

Shouldn't we include variations of this, things like "your face should not be seen in public as it violates several health and safty mesures"? BobHiggs (talk) 07:32, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

No, that's not a mother insult, it would belong at insult or The dozens. —dgies^t_c 15:18, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

{{cleanup}}

Please cleaup the extra space.70.74.35.144 (talk) 08:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

In Living Color / Cause of Popularity of "Your Mom" Jokes

It has always been my impression that the show In Living Color popularized the "your mom" jokes to the general public as its own "genre" of jokes. I believe they had a recurring sketch featuring "The Dozens" and "your mom" jokes. In any case, I'd be interested in what triggered the seemingly increase in popularity of this joke form in the early 1990s. Pythagras (talk) 14:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Didn't become popular in the early 90s

Yo mama joke were very popular in the 80s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.105.192.2 (talk) 23:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually "Your mom/yo mama" taunts were common in the 60's as well. Likely they go back to far, far earlier times. The article does make it sound like a relatively recent phenomenon. Nibios (talk) 16:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Mother vs. Mom

In this article, the word "mother" is prominenty used in place of more practical and frequently used terms, like "mom," "momma," or other variations thereof. Would it not be more sensible to use a vocabulary more reflective of the pop culture phenomenon than of proper English usage? Academic decathlete (talk) 11:14, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

it is fine how it is. it references the usage of "your mom" & "yo momma" several times.Estemshorn (talk) 17:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Article Name Change

Shouldn't this article be changed to "your mom" joke?????Estemshorn (talk) 18:01, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

The title of this article appears to be original research. I'm not aware of any reputable source that calls it "mother insult". Chubbles (talk) 20:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree, its present location isn't ideal; however, I'm not sure where to move it to. Carl.bunderson (talk) 03:32, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Can we continue to add references to the "In Popular Culture" section

I'm very new to wiki contributions, so please feel free to shout out if I'm asking these questions in the wrong forum.

I wanted to add an entry in the [In Popular Culture ] section about the "Your Mom" sub-joke in the popular XKCD comic XKCD #526. But couldn't because of the semi-protection.

So, - Should this section be the more unprotected one? - How can I contribute the above bit to the current page?

Mataal (talk) 10:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't say it's notable enough to be added. Remember, WP isn't an indiscrimate collection of info, and trivia is discouraged. Carl.bunderson (talk) 05:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Napoleon Dynamite Blurb Should be in Popular Culture Section

There is no reason for the small (and excellent) paragraph to be listed in the section on what "your mom" jokes are about. Therefore, I will be moving said paragraph to the "Popular Culture" part of the culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Necropirate (talk • contribs) 22:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I think

"Your mom in popular culture" section needs a rename. -- PXK ^T /_C 18:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Surely

The Newman and Baddiel joke should be "That's your mum that is"?

Cheers

Phil —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.254.50 (talk) 16:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

no —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.234.90.204 (talk) 18:17, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Hisorical usage on Easter Island

The book by anthropologist Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, states that it was a common occurrence on Easter Island during the starvation and cannibalism era before the Spanish arrived and after the collapse of their civilization, for an individual to tease another saying, "I ate your mother." Some actually just had. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Northtexasfossilguy (talk • contribs) 21:18, 13 August 2009 (UTC)