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refer, debi mazar, tony devon, fiction, weblog, record reviews, mother, pop, chick, entertainment, t shirt hell, science fiction, hannibal, scat, dog, | In Britain, for instance, the analogous usage is "your mum" or "your mam" or pictures "yer maw". Derogatory barbs focus almost exclusively on impugning the sexual integrity of the target's pictures mother. Historically, similar verbal competitions were practiced in other cultures. Ancient Germanic cultures, including the Norse and Anglo-Saxons, practiced a ritual exchange of insults known as flyting, which is similar in function to the dozens. In sixteenth-century Scotland, the term flyting was used to describe an exchange of abusive poems by pictures poets. Arab poets exchanged creative insults in naqa'id, a practice continued in the zajal verbal jousting of present-day Lebanon. American cowboys in the late nineteenth century participated in cussing contests, the winners of which were sometimes rewarded with new saddles. Some use your mom jokes as a riposte and often a counter-riposte to any insulting statement made. |
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Its popularity gave rise to scat sequels Double Snaps (1995), Triple Snaps (1996), and Snaps 4 (1998). The scat books use the epithet "your mother", as opposed to the more common "yo' momma". The book A Portrait of Yo Mama As a Young Man (2005), written by Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts, is a postmodern take on the dozens which redefines the form through the use of reflexivity, absurdism, and anti-humor. In addition to jokes, the book contains charts, poetry, a résumé, and various other short humor pieces. The title is derived from James Joyce's A Portriat of the Artist as scat a Young Man. The title of the Mexican film Y tu mamá también (literally, "And your mother, too") is taken from a scene in the movie wherein the two young male protagonists do the Mexican equivalent of the dozens. [edit] Related practices outside the African-American community There are similar phenomena to the dozens in other cultures. |
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