Dutch: Meisje je bent zo lelijk als je nacht, je tanden zijn zo geel als een kanarievacht.
English: Girl, you are as ugly as the night, but your teeth are as yellow as a canary.
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: Heard in a hit Dutch song by DJ Madman from early 90s. So, when he was 14, he would say it to girls he liked, in a teasing way.
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English: Do you eat yellow Crayolas? Because your teeth are mad yellow.
collected: Corona Plaza, Queens (04-30-2016)
origin: heard this joke in Middle School in Roselle, New Jersey circa 2009.
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Latvian: Tavi zobi ir kā saule – dzelteni.
English: your teeth are like the sun. Yellow.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: She made it up based on the structure of traditional Latvian pickup lines / jokes
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Latvian: Tev ir reti skaisti zobi.
English: You have really beautiful, rare teeth
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional Latvian insult joke. her uncle says it to her all the time. Play on words – word for rare also means “gaps”
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“You have so many gaps in your teeth that it looks like your tongue is behind bars in jail”
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: growing up in Philly in the 90s/early 2000s. They called it “coming at your neck” and it would often end in physical fights
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“He’s so black and his teeth are so yellow, he looks like a Pittsburgh Steelers helmet”
collected: Pittsburgh, East Liberty neighborhood (9-18-14)
origin: from Maryland – made it up while “Jonin’” with a friend from Pittsburgh
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“Your teeth are like stars, they come out at night”
collected: Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville neighborhood (9-18-14)
origin: unknown – has known and used it for a long time, particularly when people get new teeth
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“You look like you got in a fight with a dentist and lost”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: made it up on the spot
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“Your teeth look like an obstacle course”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: made it up on the spot
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“You’ve got the only teeth that could eat other teeth”
collected: Pittsburgh, PA, Northside neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: made it up on the spot