Your mother wears army boots

[Laura PourMeADrink]

We were just talking about bad things you used to say to other kids a long time ago

[Ocelot II]

1. Your mother swims after troop ships.

[underpants]

5. Ouch

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Yikes a tongue twister :)

[dhol82]

2. I remember it as "your mother wears combat boots"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Lol. Ok double checked with my sister in CT... We said

Army boots. Must be a local colloquialism. Haha

[dhol82]

18. Must have been a Philly thing.

[dhol82]

3. Who's your sisters boyfriend? The seventh fleet?

[hlthe2b]

4. and then came a decade or more of teens wearing Doc Martins

Thinks that make one go, ?

[underpants]

6. Actual 'cruit boots and bowling shoes too

On the shoe related theme, I once asked my buddy what we were doing that night. “Same as every night” he said “ looking for Birkenstock’s and low self esteem”

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Okay I missed that phase where it was cool to wear bowling shoes:)

[Behind the Aegis]

7. LOL! I remember that one!

I even drew a cartoon panel about it when I was a kid, because I didn't understand the insult. Oh yeah, I was an Army brat, and was surrounded by women in combat boots!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. I haven't idea why that popped into my brain this

morning. When is the last time you thought about your cartoon about it? Guess it was an insult back then cuz women weren't in combat roles?

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Until I saw your post, I hadn't thought about my cartoon.

I didn't understand then, and still really don't understand now, what the real insult is supposed to be. Perhaps you are are correct about it being an insult about women not being in combat roles, but I wonder if the bigger insult was meant to be it was a non-traditional role for women.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Yes! And women are supposed to be feminine. It had to be long before

the hippie phase where it was cool for women to wear army jackets and Boots

[tblue37]

25. No, it implied that your mother was a camp follower.

[sarge43]

28. Yup. She took payment with something practical,

like footwear.

It's WWII era. A woman in an occupied country often had to do whatever necessary to survive.

[NNadir]

11. I don't know if she is, but she's buried in a military cemetery with my father.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Sorry didn't mean any disrespect. Rest their souls.

[NNadir]

22. No worries...

...they've been dead many years, and I am at peace with where their bodies are and, more importantly, where they still live in me, for good and for bad, and I was just employing a macabre sense of humor.

In fact, I buried my mother's death, which I attended for long horrible months, with humor, some of it, on reflection, quite sick.

I got better. So did my father. And then he died.

Whether their remains have shoes of any type or not means nothing about them at all. All in all, she was a woman, and he was a man, and I shall not see their like again.

There are many other mother related insults, of course, and when I was a kid, in the era where the "combat boots" joke was widely used, I'm sure I used some of them myself.

I have told my sons that if they do not make jokes at my funeral, although I won't be there to check on it, they will not be showing my memory respect.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Today I mostly hear, "Your Mom is So Berkeley..."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. I like that! I'd take that as a supreme complement. nt

[abqtommy]

14. I remember "Smooth move, Ex-Lax". Sometimes a good memory isn't such a good thing!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. ROFLMAO. My husband dug deep to third grade and belted out

"Ta rah rah boom dee ay

I took your clothes away

And while you were standing there

I took your underwear away"


Bet that really hurt when someone sang that to you! Hahaha

[abqtommy]

21. After my Dad, Step-Mom and her three kids moved to California I visited and my

step-sister sang...

Tah-Rah-Rah boom de-ay
Our teacher went away.
We threw her in the bay!
Tah-Rah-Rah boom de-ay.

I'd forgotten that but you helped me remember. "Thanks a lot", as we said back in the day in a very
sarcastic way.

[abqtommy]

23. Let's not forget all the wisecracks we learned back in the day from watching The Three Stooges

and various cartoons! "Spread out.", "What's up Doc?" and so many more.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. I actually used this as a question to the speaker at a conference

"Do you think our current fiscal position jeopardizes our national fiduciary relationship?"

Said by Moe and I memorized it for some unknown reason

[Trueblue1968]

24. You smell like your own poop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skittles]

26. the worst I heard

a couple of kids in downtown Austin

YO MAMA LIKE A BOWLING BALL.....PICKED UP AND FINGERED AND THROWN IN THE GUTTER