Remember when you were little, and certain things people would say to you meant that you HAD to fight? Like, if one of your friends called you an African Booty Scratcher, you kinda had no choice but to attack that fool since all your other friends were like “Ooooohhh! Did you hear what he just called you?!”
For real, I don’t know why being an African Booty Scratcher was such a bad thing…I guess if you were scratching other people’s booties and not your own, then maybe. Or even if your scratching your own booty, but your booty stinks…that could be deemed offensive, too. Either way, that was some dumb ass 1980′s shit right there.
Two more words that also meant you had to fight if someone said them to you:
“Your momma!”
The person didn’t even have to go into specifics about your momma. If he or she said “Your Momma!” to you with attitude, then they were basically berating your mother in a way that was worse than actual words could describe. Half the fights in my old neighborhood would have never reached a boiling point if “Your momma!” wasn’t uttered during the course of the preceding arguments and trash talk.
I don’t know what made me think about that shit…Maybe because it’s 3AM and I can’t sleep…Who knows. Either eay, I’m sure it brought back memories for some.
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You’re a mess. I don’t think I ever fought after someone said “Yo mama” but I’m sure it made arguments worse. I was only in like two fights (not counting the ones with my lil bro), and they were in elementary school. The cause? Pulling my hair. You could say some of anything to me, but don’t pull my hair!!
LMAO @ African Booty Scratcher. I got popped in the mouth for calling my baby brother that in the third grade. I never had the pleasure of saying “yo’ momma” to anyone. I knew better. But I witnessed many an ass whooping based upon those two words, LOL.
Nice to know someone else thinks of crazy shit when they can’t sleep, LOL.
LMAO@this shit here….
Back then you also had “the prelude to a fight” where niggas would go shoulder to shoulder and walk in 2 complete circles before finally swinging on each other…and possibly throwing any sweater/jacket they had onto the floor beforehand….
Fighting in the 80′s was an art!
LMAO @ Killa… you got that right. And if you were female you had to remove all the jewelry in the world starting with earrings, cussin’ and threatening the whole time. Depending on how serious the fight, you’d grab some vaseline and put on a few more rings, LOL.
Those were the days.
*lol* This whole thread is cracking me up. Watching fights back then definitely was a spectator event. *whew*
*dead* @ African Booty Scratcher! I am guilty of calling more than a few people that in my youth.
I remember a friend of mine who would fight all of the time when we were little because people would say “Yo momma got green teeth” now how the hell do you get green teeth? She still gets emotional talking about those days though if you bring it up to try to fuck with her about it.
-Toshiko
I remember those days. People still get in fights just for saying those things, well not “African Booty Scratcher” but I know for sure about your momma lol
HAHAHA. in my school, it was hatian booty scratcher.