11-12-2015, 05:56 PM
(11-12-2015, 05:48 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
I read one time that the insult used there seems just cheeky and insignificant, but it is a genuine insult.
Mother was a hamster: Hamsters, like most rodents, are quite the sex machines. This is calling someone's mother loose or promiscuous.
Father smelt of elderberries: Wine can come from any fruit, or plant in general, really. Elderberry was/is a very common alternative to grape wine and during the middle ages it would have been more common for the peasants than grape wine. So this insult was calling the person's father a drunkard.
Not that any of this had anything to do with this thread, I just felt like putting it out there.
