[Ads-l] Insult: Your mother wears army boots (Your mother, Yo momma)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>  As I heard it ca1962, it was "combat boots."

I also heard "Your mother wears combat boots" in the late 1960s.
That's why I decided to post about it. I heard the phrase "Yo Momma"
as a comical pseudo-insult in the 1980s.

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