See Examples and Observations, below. See also: Examples and Observations: Your mama's so FAT, after she got off the carousel, the horse limped for a week. Mo's rebuttal: Your mama's so skinny, she can hula- hoop through a Froot Loop. Your mama's so FAT, her blood type is Ragu.
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Mo's rebuttal: Your mama's so skinny, she looks like a mic stand. Your mama's so FAT, instead of 5. Mo's rebuttal: Your mama's so skinny, she turned sideways and disappeared. Your mama's so FAT she's not on a diet she's on a triet.
I'll try it. Mo's rebuttal: Your mama's so skinny, I gave her a piece of popcorn and she went into a coma. Your mama's so FAT, when she jumped in the air she got stuck. Mo's rebuttal: Your mama's so skinny, you could blindfold her with dental floss.(Mo'nique Imes and Sherry A. Mc. Gee, Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small- Minded World. Atriz, 2. 00. 4)continue reading below our video Test Your General Science Knowledge. A Game of Insults.
This process teaches one to take insults in stride while encouraging verbal retorts. The dozens is played more often and more intensely in urban ghettos where frustrations are greater and the strategies of the ghetto are appropriate in a zero- sum game; neither player really wins. The dozens works when the players share a common ethnicity, a degree of connectedness, and acceptance of the activity for what it is- -a game (Bruhn and Murray, 1. Bruhn, The Sociology of Community Connections. Kluwer Acacademic/Plenum, 2. A Rite of Passage.
The dozens not only establishes a framework for verbal creativity; children also use them to determine a social hierarchy. A good dozens player not only cooly withstands merciless insults to his family; he also twists memorized insults quickly to suit the opponent at hand.
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University Press of Mississippi, 2. An Inoculation. It is a case of Darwinian adaptation for survival of the species in the killing jungles of slavery and racism. The mother remains the central figure. By learning to deal with verbal abuse of her, the modern black youngster learns to endure the historical, real- life abuse. It is as if the system is inoculated with virtual (verbally imagined) strains of the virus, thereby gaining immunity and new health in spite of the reality on the ground.! New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes, and Children's Rhymes From Urban Black America.
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BEIRUT — Airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the northern province of Aleppo Monday killed at least 36 people, including children, opposition activists. The dozens is a game of put-downs: the rapid, ritualistic exchange of insults, often targeting family members. Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap