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Contents 1 globally? 2 Your face. 3 {{cleanup}} 4 Napoleon Dynamite quote correction 5 In Living Color / Cause of Popularity of "Your Mom" Jokes 6 Didn't become popular in the early 90s 7 Historic Yomama jokes

[edit] globally?

Also, their was a show on MTV which pitted people aginst others in a verbal "Yo Momma" battle.This show is now canceled. 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

They do tend to be more funny than insulting. Web adam me 04:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

ok, I'll stop the your mom jokes. 165.230.46.151 (talk) 02:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your face.

Shouldn't we include variations of this, things like "your face"? 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)

[edit] {{cleanup}}

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

[edit] Napoleon Dynamite quote correction

Doesn't Kip say Your "mom" goes to college not your "mother" and she fucks dogs! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Camkeys (talk • contribs) 20:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Historic Yomama jokes

are there anymore? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sqito (talk • contribs) 23:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

ur momma is so fat tht she has to use the highway to have a slippin slide —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.170.199.80 (talk) 18:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)