Re: Tan: Vulgarity

At 22:49 03/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Sally Caves wrote:
>
>>At any rate, you try to top the other person with an insult
>>about his/her fat mother, usually in the most extreme ways:  "Your
>>mother's so fat, her feet haven't seen the sun in years!"  "Well,
>>YOUR mother's so fat, when she fell into the pond with the hippos
>>at the zoo, instead of rescuing her, they threw peanuts at her!"
>>
>It doesn't have to be insults on obesity. It can also be anything
>else like intelligence, age, looks, status, etc.: E.g., "Your Mama's
>so...
>
>....stupid, she spent twenty minutes lookin' at the orange juice box
>because it said 'concentrate'.
>....stupid, she put lipstick on her forhead, cause she wanted to
>make up her mind.
>....old, when she was in school there was no history class.
>....ugly, your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't
>have to kiss her goodbye.
>....poor, when I ring the doorbell she says 'DING!'.
>....dark, she went to night school and was marked absent.
>....hairy, Bigfoot took a picture of her.
>....skinny, she turned sideways and disappeared.
>....greasy, she uses strips of bacon for band-aids.
>
        I thought the "Ta m=E8re..." were typically French (there are here even two
books that were written to list them in French). But as I see it again,
even vulgarity is mondialized nowadays :) .


>-kristian- 8)
>
>
                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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