V.V.(4): Wayward Thoughts, Questions, Observations

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Dedalus schrieb:

> 3.  While reading in Impersonation II the references to "spawn of a
> homosexual camel" and "Menkes, who had returned to describe Yusef's
> great-great-great grandfather and grandmother as a one-legged mongrel
> dog who fed on donkey excrement and a syphilitic elephant,
> respectively," I was reminded vaguely of a reference once to a similar
> insult/joke formula in African-American culture used in trash-talking
> (i.e. "your Mama is so ugly . . . blah blah blah").

>  Any sociologists on
> the p-list care to comment on this phenomemon, which is probably common
> to ALL ethnic and racial cultures (I assume, at least)?

               
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