Yo mama so fat, her other biography is called "The Audacity of Hardee's."

October 22, 2008 7:59 AM

Matt, among other Mefites (Anil, Lore), are participating in a deeply hysterical election-themed "Yo Momma" fight (wiki). (via Boing Boing)
posted by WCityMike to MetaFilter-related at 7:59 AM (26 comments total)

are participating is participating
posted by WCityMike at 8:01 AM on October 22, 2008

As Matt points out in the boingboing comments, the link starts on page four, and click the "newer" link to go towards page one. Also, the boingboing comments have a few good ones.
posted by WCityMike at 8:05 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo momma so fat, West Virginia voting machines magically switch their votes from "Obama" to "Yo Momma" 'cause they afraid she gonna sit on them.
posted by WCityMike at 8:10 AM on October 22, 2008

likeomg: @anildash and so many bloggers - esp some pro bloggers - think they are 'writers' when they clearly are nothing of the sort. Just sayin'.

Ohhhh!
posted by CKmtl at 8:12 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo momma so dumb, she doesn't know what the Bush doctrine is.

Wait, I think I'm doing this wrong.
posted by shadow vector at 8:17 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo momma's such a ho, there's a daily blog dedicated to her ho-i-ness called "Daily Hos", run by Marhos Houlitsas.

Okay, that was a reach. Time for others to play.
posted by WCityMike at 8:18 AM on October 22, 2008

You know, "your momma is fat/skanky/a prostitute" barbs are sort of amusing in the broadcast world that is twitter but I find them a lot less amusing in a MeTa thread that is nominally supposed to be about things on the site. I'm aware that I may not have the requisite amount of detachment from this to fully appreciate it, but I do think it's sort of LOLSLUTZ at some level and we've already got the "heh heh don't get raped" thread in MeTa this week.
posted by jessamyn at 8:21 AM on October 22, 2008

I got a good metalaugh at Cortex's boingboing comment: "Matt being #3 introduces a certain mefi-specific cognitive dissonance to this whole thing."
posted by WCityMike at 8:22 AM on October 22, 2008

Well, since it was mathowie doing it, we've certainly had MetaTalk threads about admins' goings-about elsewhere ... as for it being LOLSLUTZ, I don't think it's ever been intended to truly be a descriptive and literal commentary on someone's actual mother, but instead been a way to diss the "son" of "yo momma" ... the linked-to wiki article is actually kind of interesting about the history of the practice, which evidently may've originated in the Civil War.
posted by WCityMike at 8:24 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo mama's so fat she has difficulty getting around. Really, it's quite unhealthy. You should speak to her about it.
posted by electroboy at 8:28 AM on October 22, 2008 [4 favorites]

Your momma so fat that one day she got sick and had to go to the hospital. Her young son and daughter stayed with her there and watched her fall asleep. But she didn't wake up. The doctors said it was a diabetic coma, and that there was nothing they could do. Her little children stood at her bedside and slip from the coma and pass away.

She was their whole world, their safe harbor. Now momma was gone and it broke their hearts. Yes, momma was fat, but she tried so hard and she never gave up on them. Not once. When she was laid off last November, her son and daughter were sure there'd be nothing for them that Christmas. And they were okay with that, because as momma said still they had each other against all the world, and that was all you ever needed was a strong family. But one night that December they saw momma pull a jar full of crumpled bills and coins from behind the stove, and a week later they had new toys under the Christmas tree. Even though momma got paid next to nothing, she still managed to save for the rainy days.

Now the little boy and girl are all grown up and have little boys and girls of their own. But they still miss their momma. Especially on the rainy days.
posted by Pastabagel at 8:30 AM on October 22, 2008 [24 favorites]

Might even predate the Civil War ...

Painter: "Y'are a dog."
Apemantus: "Thy mother's of my generation. What's she, if I be a dog?"

— Timon of Athens, Shakespeare, Act I, Scene 1

Demetrius: "Villain, what hast thou done?"
Aaron: "That which thou canst not undo."
Chiron: "Thou hast undone our mother."
Aaron: "Villain, I have done thy mother."

— Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare, Act IV, Scene II

I'm learning some weird shit today.
posted by WCityMike at 8:31 AM on October 22, 2008 [5 favorites]

What time did Matt wake up? What did Matt have for breakfast? What is wearing today? We needs to know!

"your momma is fat/skanky/a prostitute" barbs are sort of amusing in the broadcast world that is twitter but I find them a lot less amusing in a MeTa thread that is nominally supposed to be about things on the site.

Yo mod is so bad, they use Internet Explorer by choice!

please don't say mean crap about our fabulous mods
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:33 AM on October 22, 2008

Matt's racing 'cross.
posted by fixedgear at 8:40 AM on October 22, 2008

I don't think it's ever been intended to truly be a descriptive and literal commentary on someone's actual mother

Don't get me wrong, I understand the dozens. However generally speaking we try to reign in slut jokes and fatty jokes and whore jokes and racist jokes, so I'd just like to weigh in saying even though this was something hilarious happening on the larger internet it's the sort of thing that can go into sketch territory when done hamfistedly [but with all good intentions] in a different setting. "Yo mod" jokes I think might be hysterical however.

I will wander off and don my NO FUN t-shirt in anticipation of lots of reading this thread and the capslock thread.
posted by jessamyn at 8:45 AM on October 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

However generally speaking we try to reign in slut jokes and fatty jokes and whore jokes and racist jokes

So, uh, vegan jokes are ok?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:49 AM on October 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

Yo momma so vegan she hunts tofu from a helicopter.
posted by shadow vector at 8:53 AM on October 22, 2008 [7 favorites]

Yo momma so vegan she moved to Tempe, AZ.
posted by cortex at 8:53 AM on October 22, 2008 [8 favorites]

Brandon Blatcher: " However generally speaking we try to reign in slut jokes and fatty jokes and whore jokes and racist jokes

So, uh, vegan jokes are ok?"

Yo momma so stupid and vegan, when someone tried to stake vampire McCain, she protested.
posted by WCityMike at 8:54 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo Momma so capslock she donned a NO FUN t-shirt. I don't know what that means.
posted by cashman at 8:54 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo momma so vegan, she's voting for McCain/Palin because every egg is precious.
posted by WCityMike at 8:55 AM on October 22, 2008

Yo momma so fat she running for TWO seats in the Senate
Yo momma so ugly she made 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling just by lookin
Yo momma so old she a Democrat-Republican

lighten up jess
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:55 AM on October 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yo momma so vegan she's been targeted by the state hate crime investigation committee on account of her violent episodes of lactose intolerance.
posted by cortex at 8:57 AM on October 22, 2008 [5 favorites]

I still don't have a clue how or why to do twitter.

That said, yo momma so ugly, McCain had to put the empty paper sack that used to contain his sense of decency over her head in order to make with the knocking of boots.
posted by Mister_A at 8:57 AM on October 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yo momma so ugly, people say "What's McCain doin' in a dress?"
posted by WCityMike at 8:57 AM on October 22, 2008

I'm gonna close this (you're welcome to join in at twitter) because I don't want to regularly see these "omg, Matt did something today!" posts get more popular than they already are. Yesterday's "omg, Matt gave to a charity and someone wrote a blog post!" post was enough for the week.
posted by mathowie at 8:57 AM on October 22, 2008 [1 favorite]