“You have a face perfect for radio”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: read it in a joke book
092014011
“Does your face hurt? It’s killing me.”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: her dad used to say it to her (Rochester, NY)
092014010
“I feel bad for your mama, having such an ugly child”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
092014009
“I’ve seen prettier faces than you on the back of a fly swatter”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: her uncle Bob, from Pittsburgh, used to say it to her all the time
092014008
“You are like school in July… you have no class”
collected: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University (9-20-14)
origin: from an American TV sitcom
092014007b
“Some people live and learn and others just live”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: her father used to say it to her all the time, in Chicago
092014007
“You’d mess up a one car funeral”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: her father used to say it to her all the time, in Chicago
092014006
“You’re as slow as pond water”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: from a foreman on a job at a steel plant in Braddock, PA
092014005
“When you don’t care to send the very best”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: her grandmother from Philadelphia
092014004
“Your mama’s pussy is so hairy, when you were born you got rug burned”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: told to him by his boyfriend, who learned it on a school bus in New Jersey