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What the hell does/did it mean? I remember it was some kind of insult or retort. Was it only a CH thing or does anyone know of non-old blues who used it?

Bob wrote:What the hell does/did it mean? I remember it was some kind of insult or retort. Was it only a CH thing or does anyone know of non-old blues who used it?

Hi Bob,

I remember this. It was a variation of the insult "Your mum". I certainly never heard it outside of CH, though.

I don't think I've ever heard it before !

It was used a lot when I was there -no idea why though...

I've heard it out side CH, (not your mum on toast, just variations of 'your mum') when I was at uni my friend from sheffield said that they said it in her school only they went down the 'your mum,' your dad,' your aunt,' your cousin' etc route. I remember hearing things like 'your mum's like robo cop she's had that many screws' and 'your mum's like bread you have to peel off the crust before she tastes good' at school. In Liverpool they say 'your ma's your da and your da's your ma' and 'your ma smokes rollies on the bog' lovely!

qwerty wrote:I've heard it out side CH, (not your mum on toast, just variations of 'your mum') when I was at uni my friend from sheffield said that they said it in her school only they went down the 'your mum,' your dad,' your aunt,' your cousin' etc route. I remember hearing things like 'your mum's like robo cop she's had that many screws' and 'your mum's like bread you have to peel off the crust before she tastes good' at school. In Liverpool they say 'your ma's your da and your da's your ma' and 'your ma smokes rollies on the bog' lovely!

Ahem, yes, er, well, I did wonder whether it referred to one's mother being spread on toast, as per a quaint (not) NZ description of females having margarine legs (easily spread), but I couldn't imagine Poms, let alone CH pupils, being so crude .

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:

qwerty wrote:I've heard it out side CH, (not your mum on toast, just variations of 'your mum') when I was at uni my friend from sheffield said that they said it in her school only they went down the 'your mum,' your dad,' your aunt,' your cousin' etc route. I remember hearing things like 'your mum's like robo cop she's had that many screws' and 'your mum's like bread you have to peel off the crust before she tastes good' at school. In Liverpool they say 'your ma's your da and your da's your ma' and 'your ma smokes rollies on the bog' lovely!

Ahem, yes, er, well, I did wonder whether it referred to one's mother being spread on toast, as per a quaint (not) NZ description of females having margarine legs (easily spread), but I couldn't imagine Poms, let alone CH pupils, being so crude .

Another expression I heard being used between two Early 20's girls in a bar recently who were discussing a former female class-mate.

"When she dies, they'll have to bury her in a 'Y' shaped coffin !"

Says it all really !!!

Fairly sure this started during my early years at CH. It did I think start from the comic traditon of insulting someones mother as qwerty says and got cut down to your mum then the 'on toast' was added for no apparent reason. I've not heard it say by anyone other than ch people or people associated with them.

Was it not something to do with "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" on TV, in which David Baddiel and Rob Newman would appear as crusty academics having a debate which would always descend into childish name-calling ("that's your mum, that is!").....?

This show started in around 1990, I think.

Richard Ruck wrote: "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" ......
This show started in around 1990, I think.

Would have been around then I guess. I went to see them twice and that was around 1991/2.

Richard Ruck wrote:Was it not something to do with "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" on TV, in which David Baddiel and Rob Newman would appear as crusty academics having a debate which would always descend into childish name-calling ("that's your mum, that is!").....?

This show started in around 1990, I think.

nope it was definitely around in my time and i left in 1989 so maybe they knicked it from us!

Yes, it was definitely used at CH well before it appeared on TMWE.