English: Your mama is so stupid, she went to a movie that was rated R and it said 17 and over, so she went and got 16 of her friends
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Remembered from his childhood, in Philadelphia.
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English: Your mama is like a brick. She’s heavy, flat on both sides, and gets laid by a bunch of workers.
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Learned in High School, in Silicon Valley/ San Francisco Bay Area
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English: Your mama is like a hardware store, 5 cents a screw.
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Learned in High School, in Silicon Valley/ San Francisco Bay Area
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English: You don’t know shit from Shinola
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: Something his father would say when he was being dumb.
090118-004
English: I’m time enough for his ass
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: Something her old neighbor would say to kids who were acting badly. A southern expression, heard in Raleigh, NC.
090118-003
English: Your mother is so ugly, when she walks outside, everyone starts to run and screams, “Godzilla!”
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: His favorite Jank, used between friends (in childhood) in Jackson, Mississippi
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English: There’s a lot of miles on that gristle-gripper
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: From Odessa, Texas. Something his friend (who was a little more “red”) would say about ladies who “get around.”
090118-001
English: You’re as slow as a jar of molasses
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: Something her mother would say to her, as a child, when she was being slow. From Raleigh, NC.
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Spanish:
English: You talk like you have a potato in your mouth.
collected: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens (6-4-2016)
origin: something you say to or about someone who is acting posh or speaking fancifully. Referencing an accent or affect of speech common among the upper class in Mexico.
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Spanish:
English: You’re speaking like you have a potato in your mouth.
collected: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens (6-4-2016)
origin: a common insult from Columbia that is used when someone is mumbling, or speaking in a way you can’t understand.