Your mother wears army boots

Army boots. Must be a local colloquialism. Haha

Thinks that make one go, ?

On the shoe related theme, I once asked my buddy what we were doing that night. “Same as every night” he said “ looking for Birkenstock’s and low self esteem”

I even drew a cartoon panel about it when I was a kid, because I didn't understand the insult. Oh yeah, I was an Army brat, and was surrounded by women in combat boots!

morning. When is the last time you thought about your cartoon about it? Guess it was an insult back then cuz women weren't in combat roles?

I didn't understand then, and still really don't understand now, what the real insult is supposed to be. Perhaps you are are correct about it being an insult about women not being in combat roles, but I wonder if the bigger insult was meant to be it was a non-traditional role for women.

the hippie phase where it was cool for women to wear army jackets and Boots

like footwear.

It's WWII era. A woman in an occupied country often had to do whatever necessary to survive.

...they've been dead many years, and I am at peace with where their bodies are and, more importantly, where they still live in me, for good and for bad, and I was just employing a macabre sense of humor.

In fact, I buried my mother's death, which I attended for long horrible months, with humor, some of it, on reflection, quite sick.

I got better. So did my father. And then he died.

Whether their remains have shoes of any type or not means nothing about them at all. All in all, she was a woman, and he was a man, and I shall not see their like again.

There are many other mother related insults, of course, and when I was a kid, in the era where the "combat boots" joke was widely used, I'm sure I used some of them myself.

I have told my sons that if they do not make jokes at my funeral, although I won't be there to check on it, they will not be showing my memory respect.

"Ta rah rah boom dee ay

I took your clothes away

And while you were standing there

I took your underwear away"


Bet that really hurt when someone sang that to you! Hahaha

step-sister sang...

Tah-Rah-Rah boom de-ay
Our teacher went away.
We threw her in the bay!
Tah-Rah-Rah boom de-ay.

I'd forgotten that but you helped me remember. "Thanks a lot", as we said back in the day in a very
sarcastic way.

and various cartoons! "Spread out.", "What's up Doc?" and so many more.

"Do you think our current fiscal position jeopardizes our national fiduciary relationship?"

Said by Moe and I memorized it for some unknown reason

a couple of kids in downtown Austin

YO MAMA LIKE A BOWLING BALL.....PICKED UP AND FINGERED AND THROWN IN THE GUTTER