Oh Yeah, the Pickup Line

Totally neglected to finish my last post's title. Here goes:

Oh, yeah, the Pickup Line! Okay, the set-up: Ultimate has been rampant with the probably-egregious / sexist "Your mom" jokes lately (though these have been admirably countered by the "Your dad" jokes of Phxation). Well, yesterday at pickup, this nice / new player Kasey brought her two kids to play on the sidelines while she gamed, and we let them on the field for a few points. With the kids around, people generally tone everything down, so no mom jokes were flying. Except that the little kid was a bit of a trash-talker - "I own you!" and the like - and at one point he was guarding his mom, Kasey, and continuing to talk trash. He was trying to keep up with her and kept saying, "You're totally covered! Look at that guy, he's wide open!" And so Kasey then cuts in on him, leaving him in her dust. And she taunts back over her shoulder, "Your mom is wide open!" With perfect inflection for the typical yermom joke - Your mom is wide open! So there's a little tittering over it, but then I give a matter-of-fact "That's what she said," not in the usual cadence but with a factual reporting of "Yep, that's what she said." Pretty much everyone on the field died laughing at that point.

So yesterday at pickup, we had the world's most transcendent yermom joke - an adult taunting a little nine year-old kid with a "Your mom is wide open" in reference to herself. Hilariously inappropriate genius achieved, on the Ultimate field per usual.

Oh, and the "Are Than Ow" was a bizarre answer from the NYT Xwd on Saturday. It was supposed to be the name of a hit 1968 soul album, but we got this weird expression. What gives, Will Shortz?