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The dozens is an African American oral tradition in which two people go head-to-head in a contest of often good-natured, ribald "trash-talk". They take turns insulting; "burning," "cracking," "heating," "ranking," "sparking," "sunning," "janking," "snapping," "checking," "riding," or even "projectoring" — on one another, their adversary's mother, or other family member until one of them has no comeback. Similar traditions exist in other Western cultures.

Each putdown, or snap, ups the ante. Defeat can be humiliating, but a skilled contender, win or lose, may gain respect. The dozens is part of the African American oral tradition of word play and verbal sparring, elements evident in the development of hip hop, especially the practice of freestyle battling. The opponent is often considered being served.

Contents 1 History and practice 2 The dozens in literature and the performing arts 3 Related practices outside the African American community 4 Examples of snaps 4.1 "Yo mama is so ugly" 4.2 "Miscellaneous yo mama jokes" 4.3 "Yo mama is so nasty..." 4.4 "Yo mama is so dark..." 4.5 "Yo momma's like a..." 4.6 "Yo' momma's teeth..." 4.7 "Yo' momma's so easy..." 4.8 "Yo' momma's so fat..." 4.9 "Yo' momma's so stupid..." 4.10 "Yo' momma's so ugly..." 4.11 "Yo' momma's so short..." 4.12 "Yo' momma's so hairy..." 4.13 "Yo' momma's so cheap..." 4.14 "Yo' momma's so old..." 4.15 "Yo' momma's so skinny..." 4.16 "Yo' momma's so poor..." 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] History and practice

The dozens can be a harmless game of casual, good-natured jibes, an exchange of malicious insults, taunts or, if tempers flare, a prelude to physical violence. While the competition on its face is usually light-hearted, smiles sometimes mask real tensions. In its purest form, the dozens is part of a custom of verbal sparring, of "woofin'" and "signifyin'" ostensibly intended to defuse conflict nonviolently, descended from oral traditions of indigenous West African cultures. ^{[citation needed]} The contest is generally judged informally by any onlookers or bystanders who may be watching. The dozens is a battle for the respect of onlookers and is rarely seen without spectators. The onlookers express approval or disapproval with laughter, jeers, or slang filled catcalls such as, "Ohhhh! Burn!."

The term the dozens is believed to refer to the devaluing on the auction block of slaves who were past their prime, deformed, aged, or no longer capable of hard labor after years of back-breaking toil. These slaves often were sold by the dozen. In "Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor," African American author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy writes:

The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves—generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience—were grouped in lots of a 'cheap dozen' for sale to slave owners. For a Black to be sold as part of the 'dozens' was the lowest blow possible.<ref>Mona Lisa Saloy (2001). Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor. Louisiana Folklife Festival booklet. Retrieved on 2005-11-15.</ref>

"Yo' momma" is a common, widely recognized retort in slang. It is a cryptic and sometimes comical allusion to the dozens.

Children have been known to express contempt or defiance by reciting a short poem that refers to the dozens, but in which the insults are mostly implied:

Yo' momma, yo' daddy, Yo' bald-head granny, yo person, yo fiesta in yo pants

Yo' momma, Yo' daddy, Yo' sista, too. Go tell them bitches to go back to the zoo.

Yo' momma, Yo' daddy, Yo' bald-head granny, Yo Grandmas Grandmas Cousins Uncle Dog

She ninety-nine. She thinks she fine. She had a date with Frankenstein

[edit] The dozens in literature and the performing arts

Kokomo Arnold, one of the most popular American blues musicians of the 1930s, released a song Twelves (Dirty Dozens) that includes lyrics such as:

I like yo' momma - sister, too

I did like your poppa - but your poppa wouldn't do

I met your poppa on the corner the other day

I soon found out he was funny that way.

In Zora Neale Hurston's, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), there is reference to "playin' de dozens" in front of Joe's store.

Comedian George Carlin talks about playing the dozens on his Grammy-winning 1972 album Occupation: Foole.

You wanna play the dozens

well the dozens is a game

but the way I'm fucking your mother

is a goddamn shame.

Alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde released a song on their debut album Bizarre Ride II: The Pharcyde entitled "Ya' Mama", the lyrics of which consist entirely of snaps. A remix of this song is used as the theme of MTV's trash-talk show Yo Momma (see below for more information about the show.) In addition, the Australian hip-hop group Butterfingers have a song called "Yo Momma" that includes the chorus "Yo Momma's on the top of my things-to-do list."

The book Snaps (1994), written by James Percelay, is a compendium of over 450 jokes. Its popularity gave rise to sequels Double Snaps (1995), Triple Snaps (1996), and Snaps 4 (1998). The books use the epithet "your mother", as opposed to the more common "yo' momma". The book series spawned a television series titled Snaps which ran briefly on HBO. The movies White Men Can't Jump, Remember the Titans, 8 Mile, and House Party include exchanges of snaps.

In a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch from the 1990s entitled "I'm Chillin'", which was presented as an inner-city public-access talk show, the host (played by then-castmember Chris Rock) would regularly present a segment entitled "Mother Joke of the Week". Rock's character would present a "mother joke" submitted by a fictitious viewer, after which Don Pardo would describe a fictitious prize to be awarded to the viewer in question.

The Keenan Ivory Wayans TV show In Living Color regularly featured a game show segment titled The Dirty Dozens and parodies of popular game shows, such as Wheel of Dozens and Family Dozens. Their brothers, Shawn and Marlon have also been involved in these, so much so that in 2004, they released a mobile phone game based on The Dozens.

The book A Portrait of Yo Mama As a Young Man (2005), written by Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts, is a postmodern take on the dozens which redefines the form through the use of reflexivity, absurdism, and anti-humor. In addition to jokes, the book contains charts, poetry, a résumé, and various other short humor pieces. The title is derived from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The title of the Mexican film Y tu mamá también (literally, "And your mother, too") is taken from a scene in the movie where in the two young male protagonists do their equivalent of the dozens.

In 2006, MTV premiered a game show titled Yo Momma executive produced and hosted by Wilmer Valderrama. Contestants face off in playing the dozens. The person judged to be the funniest wins a cash prize. The four winners from that week then face off in a final round, where the weekly winner gets another cash prize and additional prizes as well.

In the TV series, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Grim's scythe turns Billy and Mandy's school principal, Principal Goodvibes, into a semi-rapper, and he insults Grim's momma once, and is seen having a dozens competition with Erwin that Goodvibes loses badly. Then the grandmother steps in, and plays the dozens with the principal who loses again.

Fictional artist MC Hawking (a gangsta rapping parody of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking) has a song called "The Dozens" on his CD A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits, where he raps "yo momma" jokes like "Yo momma's such a slut, the other night I had to park my dick on her ass and wait an hour to get in."

Award-winning author and UCLA professor Mike Rose refers to "running the dozens" in his oft-anthologized essay, "I Just Wanna Be Average." ("Tyrrell was the coolest kid I knew. He ran the dozens like a metric halfback...")

In jazz, at least three pieces have dozens-related titles: "Yo' Mama's Mambo" which pianist/composer Horace Silver plays; "How's Your Mama" which alto saxophonist/composer Phil Woods plays as his theme song; and "Yo Mama"[1], a blues which trumpeter Jack Sheldon usually sandwiches between his own versions of the dozens.

[edit] Related practices outside the African American community

There are phenomena similar to the dozens outside the African American community. In Britain, for instance, the analogous usage is "your mum" or "your mam" or "yer maw". Derogatory barbs focus almost exclusively on impugning the moral integrity of the target's mother with regard to her sexual behavior.

Historically, similar verbal competitions were practiced in other cultures. Ancient Germanic cultures, including the Norse and Anglo-Saxons, practiced a ritual exchange of insults known as flyting, which is similar in function to the dozens. In sixteenth-century Scotland, the term flyting was used to describe an exchange of abusive poems by poets. Arab poets exchanged creative insults in naqa'id, a practice continued in the zajal verbal jousting of present-day Lebanon. American cowboys in the late nineteenth century participated in cussing contests, the winners of which were sometimes rewarded with new saddles.

Some use your mom jokes as a riposte and often a counter-riposte to any insulting statement made. A counter- counter riposte of 'your mom' can also be made.

In recent years, your mom jokes have also become used for somewhat tongue-in-cheek statements that have no hostile or pejorative intent: "I love to eat ice cream." "Your mom loves to eat ice cream!" The phrase can also be used to skew another person's words: "Kraft Dinner noodles are cheap and easy." "Your mom is cheap and easy!"; "Primates occupy an interesting ecological niche." "I pri-mated with your mom's ecological niche!" Often this practice is simplified to the point where an entire response to a statement is "Yo mama."

Although this may appear to be a recent phenomenon, one can trace its roots far back in history. Indeed, William Shakespeare appears to utilise such a device in Act I Scene 1 of Timon of Athens:

Painter: "Y'are a dog."

Apemantus: "Thy mother's of my generation. What's she, if I be a dog?"

Quips like "That's what your mom said (last night)" or "[[That's what she said]]" (wherein "she" does not necessarily refer to somebody's mother, but instead an unnamed, hypothetical woman) are also sometimes used to reply humorously to anything vaguely sexually suggestive.

It is also a large part of Australian male culture to Insult one's mates, sometimes to what seems to outsiders to be particularly savage, but is (for the most part) taken lightly and without offence, often with the target of the insults laughing as much as the one giving them out.

[edit] Examples of snaps

What follows are a few sanitized, less colorful examples of snaps in the dozens. For further examples, please see the External links section. ________________________________________________________________________________________________

[edit] "Yo mama is so ugly"

• Yo mama so ugly when she joined an ugly contest, they said "Sorry, no professionals."

• Yo mama so ugly she looks out the window and got arrested for mooning.

• Yo mama so ugly just after she was born, her mother said "What a treasure!" and her father said "Yes, let's go bury it."

• Yo mama so ugly they push her face into dough to make gorilla cookies.

• Yo mama so ugly they filmed "Gorillas in the Mist" in her shower

• Yo mama so ugly they didn't give her a costume when she tried out for Star Wars.

• Yo mama so ugly instead of putting the bungee cord around her ankle, they put it around her neck

• Yo mama so ugly she gets 364 extra days to dress up for Halloween.

• Yo mama so ugly when she walks into a bank, they turn off the surveillence cameras

• Yo mama so ugly her mom had to be drunk to breast feed her

• Yo mama so ugly her mom had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her.

• Yo mama so ugly when she walks down the street in September, people say "Wow, is it Halloween already?"

• Yo mama so ugly the government moved Halloween to her birthday.

• Yo mama so ugly that if ugly were bricks she'd have her own projects.

• Yo mama so ugly they pay her to put her clothes on in strip joints.

• Yo mama so ugly she made an onion cry.

• Yo mama so ugly they filmed "Gorillas in the Mist" in her shower!

• Yo mama so ugly when they took her to the beautician it took 12 hours. . .for a quote!

• Yo mama so ugly they put her in dough and made monster cookies!

• Yo mama so ugly she tried to take a bath the water jumped out!

• Yo mama so ugly she looks out the window and gets arrested!

• Yo mama so ugly even Rice Krispies won't talk to her!

• Yo mama so ugly Ted Dansen wouldn't date her!

• Yo mama so ugly for Halloween she trick or treats on the phone!

• Yo mama so ugly she turned Medusa to stone!

• Yo mama so ugly The NHL banned her for life

• Yo mama so ugly she gets 364 extra days to dress up for Halloween!

• Yo mama so ugly the government moved Halloween to her birthday!

• Yo mama so ugly if ugly were bricks she'd have her own projects!

• Yo mama so ugly they pay her to put her clothes on in strip joints

• Yo mama so ugly she made an onion cry!

• Yo mama so ugly people go as her for Halloween.

• Yo mama so ugly that when she sits in the sand on the beach, cats try to bury her.

• Yo mama so ugly she scares the roaches away.

• Yo mama so ugly we have to tie a steak around your neck so the dog will play with her!

• Yo mama so ugly I heard that your dad first met her at the pound.

• Yo mama so ugly that if ugly were bricks she'd have her own projects.

• Yo mama so ugly that your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye.

[edit] "Miscellaneous yo mama jokes"

• Yo mama feet are so big her shoes have to have license plates!

• Yo mama aint so bad...she would give you the hair off of her back!

• Yo mama lips so big, Chap Stick had to invent a spray.

• It took yo mama 10 tries to get her drivers license, she couldnt get used to the front seat!

• Yo mama hips are so big, people set their drinks on them.

• Yo mama hair so nappy she has to take Tylenol just to comb it.

• Yo mama so clumsy she got tangled up in a cordless phone.

• Yo mama so wrinkled, she has to screw her hat on.

• Yo mama twice the man you are.

• Yo mama cross-eyed and watches TV in stereo.

• Yo mama is missing a finger and can't count past nine.

• Yo mama arms are so short, she has to tilt her head to scratch her ear.

• Yo mama middle name is Rambo.

• Yo mama in a wheelchair and says, "You ain't gonna puch me 'round no more."

• Yo mama rouchy, the McDonalds she works in doesn't even serve Happy Meals.

• Yo mama so stupid was born on Independence Day and can't remember her birthday.

• Yo mama mouth so big, she speaks in surround sound.

• Yo mama gums are so black she spits Yoo-hoo.

• Yo mama breath smell so bad when she yawns her teeth duck.

• I saw your mama at the freak show petting the world's largest turtle.

• I saw your mama kicking a can down the street. I asked her what she was doing, and she said "Moving."

• Yo mama teeth are so rotten, when she smiles they look like dice.

[edit] "Yo mama is so nasty..."

• Yo mama so nasty she made speed stick slow down.

• Yo mama so nasty she brings crabs to the beach.

• Yo mama so nasty she made right guard turn left.

• Yo mama so nasty the fishery be paying her to leave

• Yo mama so nasty she has to creep up on bathwater.

• Yo mama so nasty that pours salt water down her pants to keep her crabs fresh.

• Yo mama so nasty I called her to say hello, and she ended up giving me an ear infection.

[edit] "Yo mama is so dark..."

• Yo mama so dark she went to night school and was marked absent!

• Yo mama so dark she spits chocolate milk!

• Yo mama so dark that she can leave fingerprints on charcoal.

• Yo mama so dark she has to wear white gloves when she eats Tootsie Rolls to keep from eating her fingers.

[edit] "Yo momma's like a..."

• "...vacuum cleaner; she never loses suction."
• "...vacuum. She sucks, blows and gets laid in the closet."
• "...a bicycle; everybody gets a ride."
• "...a toilet; short, fat, and smelly."
• "...a hockey player; she doesn't change her pads until after the 3rd period."
• "...moped-fun to ride but nobody wants to be seen on her."
• "...Big Mac. Fat, greasy, and worth a buck."
• "...brick wall. She's flat on both sides and only gets laid by dirty Mexicans."
• "...parking garage - three bucks for eight hours."
• "...bowling ball - she gets fingered, thrown in the gutter, and just keeps coming back for more."
• "...shotgun, two cocks and she blows."
• "...hardware store, 1 dollar for a bolt and five cents for a screw."
• "...radio, a two-year old can turn her on."

[edit] "Yo' momma's teeth..."

• "...so yellow, they could butter a whole loaf of bread."
• "...so yellow, when she yawns traffic slows down."
• "...look like Honey Smacks."
• "...are so yellow, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!"

[edit] "Yo' momma's so easy..."

• "...she has a mattress tied to her back."
• "...she has a ticket counter in her bedroom."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so fat..."

• "...she has more buns than a bakery
• "...she can't even fit on myspace...(the come back)....yo mamma's so fat... she is MySpace, Yo space and everybody else space.
• "...she couldn't even wear XXXL Bikines
• "...it takes a bus, a plane, and two trains to get on her good side."
• "...the only thing stopping her from going to Weight Watcher's is the door."
• "...she is fat."
• "...her nipples are mountains."
• "...every picture of her needs to be an aerial view."
• "...she's got more rolls than a pastry truck."
• "...she walked down an alley and she got stuck."
• "...when she goes to the movies, she sits next to EVERYONE"
• "...she has a tattoo of a whale that says "actual size"
• "...When she stepped on a scale, it said, "one at a time, please."
• "...she sweats butter and syrup and got a full time job working at Denny's wiping pancakes across her face."
• "...when she was sunbathing at the beach, greenpeace came and rolled her into the water."
• "...she sits in front of everyone when she goes to the movies."
• "...she jumped in air and got stuck."
• "...she stepped on a scale, and all it said was "To be continued"
• "...she needs a boomerang to put on her belt."
• "...the last time she saw 90210 was on the bathroom scale."
• "...she turned around and it was her birthday."
• "...she uses Greyhound busses as roller skates."
• "...she uses the highway for a Slip 'N Slide."
• "...when she goes to the beach, the tide comes in."
• "...whenever she takes a step she shakes the earth out of orbit."
• "...she fills up the bath and then puts in the water"
• "...when she takes a step, it causes earthquakes in third-world countries."
• "...she went for a walk in high heels and struck oil."
• "...she uses a pillow for a tampon."
• "...Spain claimed her as the New World."
• "...she went out in a yellow raincoat and everyone started yellin' Taxi!"
• "...her blood type is 'Ragu.'" (or pasta sauce)
• "...after sex, she smokes turkeys."
• "...she cut herself and gravy poured out."
• "...after sex, you rolled over twice and was still on top of her."
• "...she sat on a: (rainbow and squished out Skittles)(quarter and squished a booger out of George Washington's nose)(dollar and squished out four quarters)."
• "...the back of her neck looks like a pack of hot dogs."
• "...when she takes a step back you hear, 'beep, beep, beep.'"
• "...she tried to hula hoop and got stuck."
• "...she eats Wheat Thicks."
• "...she fell in love and broke it."
• "...she's on both sides of the family."
• "...even her clothes have stretch marks."
• "...when you tell her to haul ass, she has to make two trips."
• "...her belt size is "Equator."
• "...when she jumped in the ocean the world over flowed."
• "...when she jumped in the ocean the whales started singing "we are family even though your fatter then me"
• "...when your dads shagging her he burns his arse on the lightbulb."
• "...her picture is even heavy."
• "...she stepped on the scale and it said to be continued."
• "...she walked past my window and I lost 12 days of sunlight."
• "...when she sits around the house, she actually sits around the house!"
• "...when she jumped in the pool, Katrina came back!"
• "...she went on the seafood diet...whenever she saw food she ate it."
• "...that when she gets on an elevator, it HAS to go down."
• "...she can't even jump to a conclusion."
• "...that she wears a watch on each arm, one for each timezone."
• "...she went on a light diet...as soon as its light she starts eating."
• "...she plays hopscotch with the states."
• "...she tattooed a blue whale on her forehead and she still couldn't see it."
• "...you can watch her walk through the street on Google Maps!"
• "...when she wore a yellow shirt and went bungee jumping the bungee broke and a little boy said "mommy mommy the sun is falling"
• "...that when she jumped for joy, she got stuck."
• "...her shadow weighs a hundred pounds."
• "...she puts mayonnaise on her aspirin."
• "...she jump up on a trampoline and people thought there was a solar eclipse."
• "...When she went to Japan the people said "OMG Godzilla's Back."
• "...Whenever she turns around she's in a different state."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so stupid..."

• "...A guy walked up to her and said 'do you have some aspirin?' and she pulled a pen out of her pants."
• "...she thought a car was a pony.
• "...she ate a school bus full of white kids, because she thought it was a Twinkie."
• "...she tripped over a cordless phone."
• "...she used pump hoses at Shell to put out a fire."
• "...she got hit by a parked car."
• "...she got locked in a grocery store and starved."
• "...she threw a rock at the ground, and missed."
• "...she took a spoon to the Super Bowl."
• "...she climbed over a glass wall to see what was on the other side."
• "...she tried to wake up a sleeping bag."
• "...she gave birth to Dale Screech."
• "...she locked herself in the bathroom and peed her pants."
• "...she thought hormones were the noises that come out of your father's bedroom while she's out beggin for change."
• "...she gave birth to Michael Molenar and Kris Orlowski"
• "...someone said, 'It's chilly outside,' and she went and got a bowl."
• "...it takes her an hour to cook Minute Rice."
• "...she thought Grape Nuts was an STD."
• "...she brought toilet paper to a craps game."
• "...she got fired from the M&M factory for throwing out all the W's."
• "...she tried to alphabetize M&M's."
• "...she fell out a boat and missed water."
• "...someone asked her a yes or no question and she said or."
• "...she got locked outside a motorcycle."
• "...she locked her keys outside her car."
• "...she thought solitary confinment was a card game."
• "...she studied for a blood test."
• "...when she jumped off the empire state building she had to ask for directions on the way down."
• "...She went to an 18+ and bought 17 other mates with her."
• "...she used marijuana and dog crap to make hash browns."
• "...she tried to drown a goldfish."
• "...she planted cheerios in her garden thinking that they were donut seeds."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so ugly..."

• "...she makes me look good."
• "...she turned Medusa to stone."
• "...that people go as her for Halloween."
• "...she makes Dennis Rodman look like a beauty queen."
• "...She made a blind girl scream"
• "...she looked out the window and got arrested for mooning."
• "...she made Ray Charles say, 'Damn she ugly.'"
• "...the Elephant Man paid to see her."
• "...she made an onion cry"
• "...when she entered an ugliness competition they kicked her out and said 'no professionals'."
• "...when she went into a beauty parlor to get a makeover, the other customers started humming the 'Mission Impossible' theme song."
• "...that even the priest wanted her aborted."
• "...that people walk up to her and say halloween is over take off the mask."
• "...if ugly was a crime, she'd be in the electric chair."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so short..."

• "...she has to slam dunk her bus fare."
• "...she poses for trophies."
• "...she can sit on the curb and swing her legs."
• "...you can see her feet in her drivers license photo."
• "...she's someone else's Mini-Me."
• "...she can hang glide with a Dorito."
• "...she can do backflips underneath her bed."
• "...she made a suicide jump off a pencil."
• "...she jumped in a puddle and drowned."
• "...she has to reach up to tie her shoes."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so hairy..."

• "...she uses a lawnmower to shave her legs."
• "...when she fell in the water everybody said ch ch ch chia."
• "...her armpits look like she has Don King in a headlock."
• "...Bigfoot took a picture of her."
• "...she has afros on her nipples."
• "...you almost died of rugburn at birth."
• "...she was Bigfoot's sister."
• "...Chubacca looked at her and said "DANG!"

[edit] "Yo' momma's so cheap..."

• "...she'd tear a guy apart if she saw a penny in his hand."
• "...she went to McDonald's and put a Big Mac on lawaway."
• "...she took you to 7/11 for Thanksgiving."
• "...she went to Red Lobster and asked if they had a dollar menu."
• "...everyone can afford her."
• "...I gave her a penny for sex and I got change."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so old..."

• "...Jurassic Park brings back memories."
• "...I told her to act her age, and she died."
• "...she has a picture of Jesus, Adam, and Eve in her yearbook"
• "...she knew the Dead Sea when it was just getting sick."
• "...when God said, 'Let there be light,' she flipped the switch."
• "...her prom date was Moses."
• "...she babysat for Fred Flintstone."
• "...when she was a kid she had a pet dinosaur."
• "...she DJ'ed at the Boston Tea Party."
• "...her memories are in black and white."
• "...her Social Security number is 1."
• "...she was the waitress at the last supper."
• "...her AOL screenname is 'A.'"
• "...she has Jesus' fax number."
• "...her breastmilk is powdered."
• "...she was a stowaway on Noah's ark."
• "...she was the model for the Sphinx."
• "...she had the time to count to infinity...twice."
• "...she played for the Raiders when they still had two eyes.
• "...her birth certificate says 'expired'"
• "...when she was in school, they didn't have history"
• "...when they told her to act her age she died."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so skinny..."

• "...she has to do the matrix in the shower to get wet"
• "...she can hula-hoop with a Cheerio."
• "...she has to tease the hair on her legs to keep her socks up."
• "...Skeletor passed her on the street and offered to buy her a sandwich."
• "...she can fit through a closed door."

[edit] "Yo' momma's so poor..."

• "..... She wears rabbit fur as her panties"
• "...I saw her kickin' a can down the street, asked her what she was doing, and she said, 'Movin."
• "...she got a tattoo that says, 'Will Work For Food.'"
• "...burglars broke into her house and stole all her lingerie."
• "...her TV is a bra."
• "...she can't even afford to pay attention."
• "...she goes to KFC to lick other people's fingers."
• "...she got married for the rice."
• "...I walked in to her house and asked if I could use the bathroom, and she said "Pick a corner."
• "...when she went to the movies they said to her, "Here's your $20 plus tax."
• "...I went to her house and rang the doorbell, and I heard the toilet flush!"
• "...when I visited her trailer, 2 cockroaches tripped me, and a rat tried to steal my wallet.
• "...she waves an ice lolly around and calls it air conditioning.
• "...the building society repossessed her cardboard box.
• "...she can't even afford to go to the free clinic.
• "...when I rang her doorbell, she stuck her head out of the window and said, "Ding-Dong."
• "...I visited her house, tore down the cob webs and she screamed - "Who's tearing down the drapes!!!!"
• "...I walked into her home, asked if I could use her toilet, and she said "Sure thing, it's 4th tree on your right..."
• "...when I saw her wobbling down the street with 1 shoe, I hollered - "Lost a shoe?", and she said - "Nope...just found one..."
• "...she hangs toilet paper out to dry.
• "...she had to take out a second mortgage on her cardboard box.
• "...she uses chewing gum as a BandAid.
• "...I dropped a penny, she dove for it and said "This really is my lucky day!"

[edit] References

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[edit] See also

• Call and response
• Dissing
• Extempo
• Folklore
• Taunt
• Wolf ticket
• Roast (comedy)
• Avoidance speech (mother-in-law languages)
• Insult swordfighting

[edit] External links

• Pimpdaddy's Yo Mama Snaps
• Yo' Momma Jokes
• Your Mom Joke Directory
• Definition
• Best Yo Mamma Jokes
• Yo Mama Jokes
• Lollerpedia Yo Mama jokes GFDL wiki
• Yo Mama Jokesfr:Ta mère

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