2006-09-26 14:29:28 · 16 answers · asked by shadow rabbit 114 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
your mom started it
2006-09-26 14:36:46 · answer #1 · answered by Jai K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Your mom" is an insult that comes from a very old rhyming game called "the dozens". African American people who lived in urban areas in the early 1900s were observed to play this game, which is arguably the source of rap music. (In the movie "8 Mile" you see the two factory workers playing "the dozens" and when the man loses he says in a contemptuous tone: "Yo mama!" and then everybody snickers. If you ever see reruns of "The Jeffersons" you will see George play "the dozens" with Florence the maid. Also the Rev. Jesse Jackson has played the dozens with people in various public settings, and the now-dead famous lawyer Johnny Cochran-- who defended O.J. Simpson-- is noted for rhyming in court ["if the glove don't fit, you must acquit!"]and various statements-- to the great confusion of white people everywhere.)
You are supposed to insult the other person in rhymes-- you rhyme off the last insult they gave you. For example: "Your feet stink worse than rotten eggs!" and the response would be "At least I don't have skinny legs!"
And you go back and forth with this until someone gets too emotional to think of a rhyme, at which point he or she says: "Yo mama!" as in "I can't think of a rhyme for what you just said, so I'm going to insult your mother instead!"
2006-09-26 21:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by Scarlett_156 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was considered an even bigger insult to insult your mom instead of you, because she cared for you and raised you. Then, people started enjoying saying it and made jokes and just randomly said "your mom". Maybe in 100 years they'll be saying "Your Computer". Lol.
2006-09-26 21:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by emilyy:) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think about it everyone in the 60-90 were really close to their parents (aka the moma's boy generation) so then someone start making fun of their parents. So now to mess with people "your mom" once was offensive.
thats my theory
2006-09-26 21:33:11 · answer #4 · answered by silver_wolf77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your mom started saying "your mom"
2006-09-26 22:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
from napoleon dynamite. ya know... "your mom goes to college" line that in says in the movie. people just started saying "your mom" as an insult like kip. it's pretty annoying.
2006-09-26 21:31:27 · answer #6 · answered by kaitlin_danette09 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I started it... and then more people started saying it. It moved across the USA and out of the country and guess what? Now everybody says it.
2006-09-26 21:30:45 · answer #7 · answered by Harsh Noise Wall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the movie Napoleon Dynomite.
Kip states "your mom goes to college"
since then everyone uses it
2006-09-26 21:40:42 · answer #8 · answered by tcarrw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by saying the word your mom
2006-09-26 21:30:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your mom started it.
2006-09-26 21:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by superboredom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋