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The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the participants to reply with increasingly severe insults in order to heighten the tension and consequently make the contest more interesting to watch.
While the previous entries relied on homophonic double-entendres, this one mines another classic comedy trope: Little kids cracking "yo mama" jokes in the schoolyard. Yes, Kmart is playing the Dozens.
A "yo mama" joke or your mom joke is a ... Insults involving "your mother" are commonly used when playing the Dozens. In non-American areas, the association can be ...
An example of signifyin' is "playing the dozens". The dozens is a game in which participants seek to outdo each other by throwing insults back and forth. Tom Kochman offered as an example in Rappin' and Stylin' Out: Communication in Urban Black America (1972): " Yo momma sent her picture to the lonely hearts club, but they sent it back and said ...
Dads are about to get a run for their money with these mom jokes that are sure to deliver the laughs with funny one-liners and puns on motherhood and life. 75 mom jokes so cheesy, you'll think ...
If dark humor jokes make you giggle, you'll be happy to know that we've gathered a collection of bad-but-good one-liners that'll make you cringe and snicker at the same time.
Please don't list "Your mom..." jokes here. It's unencyclopedic and duplicates the existing list at The Dozens. Dgies 05:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC). Yeah someone might want to get out into the sunlight sometime and notice how 'your mom' jokes in the movies and on tv aren't the same in delivery or content as the ones used in real life. --68.20.3.186
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