# Did your mother ever have any children that lived? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140 "2005-11-09T00:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/1 "2005-11-09T00:37:23Z")
Dad was a funny guy. He’s the one who introduced me to that phrase. But what, exactly, does it mean? [ul][li]That the target has no parents, and that he’s been fooled into thinking his parents were really his? (That one would be pretty harsh if the guy was adopted.)[/li]That the target is brain-dead?[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/2 "2005-11-09T00:42:26Z")
The latter is my guess. At least that is the way I use it. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/3 "2005-11-09T00:42:46Z")
I always thought it was #2. I also always thought that it was a pretty poor joke because it doesn’t make much sense. “Dead” isn’t an insult you hear people flinging around. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/4 "2005-11-09T00:43:54Z")
I always thought #2. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/5 "2005-11-09T00:44:28Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I always thought it was #2. _snort_ You said ‘number twos’! ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/6 "2005-11-09T05:12:21Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > _snort_ You said ‘number twos’! Which seems to support that your parents did not. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/7 "2005-11-09T15:07:07Z")
Given that one and the _Full Metal Jacket_ comment of: “The best part of you slid down the crack of your mamma’s ass and ended up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think you been cheated!” I’d be willing to bet it’s a suggestion that the target is not in fact a living breathing human, but simply a disgusting, lifeless, thoughtless lump of human byproduct tissue. In other words, a vaginally delivered mass of tissue in no other way resembling a human being. And Drill oughtta know! See also Drill’s other terms of endearment: Maggot, Crack-baby, Scumbag, Son of a motherless goat, Slimey (little) F\*\*\*, Worm, Gellatinous mass, (Brain) tumor, Piece of S\*\*\*, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/8 "2005-11-09T16:25:53Z")
A variation of this that I use when appropriate is “Did your mom have any sons?” A couple years ago, I stopped in a liquor store, bus kid in tow. Picked her up some Snapple, and myself a 12 of Harp. Went to the counter, and the kid there looked at the Harp, made a face and said something like “hoo-boy, that looks pretty out there, me I’m a Silver Bullet man myself.” To which I replied… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/9 "2005-11-09T16:29:09Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > A variation of this that I use when appropriate is “Did your mom have any sons?” > > A couple years ago, I stopped in a liquor store, bus kid in tow. Picked her up some Snapple, and myself a 12 of Harp. Went to the counter, and the kid there looked at the Harp, made a face and said something like “hoo-boy, that looks pretty out there, me I’m a Silver Bullet man myself.” > > To which I replied… Wow, you found someone proud to drink Coors. Usually if someone offers a Coors or Coors Lite it is with some form of Apology. Even my FIL who likes Coors, apologizes when he is offering it to others. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/10 "2005-11-09T16:36:50Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Wow, you found someone proud to drink Coors. Usually if someone offers a Coors or Coors Lite it is with some form of Apology. Even my FIL who likes Coors, apologizes when he is offering it to others. > > Jim It was Iowa. That’s probably all the explaining needed. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-mother-ever-have-any-children-that-lived/330140/11 "2005-11-09T16:49:25Z")
I’ve always used it to mean “You’re so stupid you aren’t really a human being”, which fits in with the meanings \*\*Inigo Montoya \*\* lists. My voice drips sarcasm when I say it.