On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mark Tiller wrote: > I -KNOW- that this IS off topic, but does anybody know why the phrase > "Your mother wears army boots" is supposed to be so insulting? :) Or > for that matter, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of > elderberries" Well, I think the army boots was an insult to femininity...and I'm not sure about the hamster part, but I would bet the elderberries refers to elderberry wine, so that probably meant the father was a drunkard. *shrug* ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com