Jayus

[cacophonesque]

When I was a precocious teenager attending nerd camp, with other teenagers who were just as gifted and weird as me, my friends and I decided that tacking "yo mama" onto pretty much any sentence was hilarious. Mind you, we didn't actually like to insult each others' mothers. No, we did it ironically. That's right, apparently I was a 16-year-old

Comments

[sweeny_todd]

This is really nice! I love those sort of impromptu meetings, and the fact that you are still friends all these years later. (uh... based on fact, yeah?)

I never got 'yo mama' jokes, but I have seen they are a part of north american culture!

[cacophonesque]

We did eventually lose contact and drift apart... time and distance. But I'm FB friends with Rob and Hikory still. (Dave, too, technically, but he doesn't really use it). I still have some amazing friendships that formed during my years at nerd camp, though, and they mean so much.

I didn't really get them either. I just liked making them sound as lame or non sequitor as possible.

[bleodswean]

Oh! This is fantastic!!!!

[cacophonesque]

Thanks. I like to tell stories from my past, I always over explain what I find funny, and I wanted to play with recapturing the voice of younger me.

[elledanger]

hahaha, some things never change.

[beautyofgrey]

That is the only appropriate yo mama joke, ever. :P Also, glad to see you writing!

[cacophonesque]

Most of them were more like

Me: Man, I love Allen Ginsburg.
Friend: Your mom loves Allen Ginsburg.

[roina_arwen]

Ah, Yo Mama jokes... I remember them well... :)