Awww. Your mom’s kind of great, and obviously you love her. But she also doesn’t understand ANYTHING. AND she didn’t read the “STAY OUT, NO MOMS ALLOWED” sign that we put on the door to our Internet. God, your mooooooooom. It’s embarrasssssssssssing. (Thanks for the tip, Mary.)

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  1. “I would have to be deaf to want to listen to Tom Petty.” -My Mom, most likely

  2. She did the same performance after she caught me masturbating.

  3. “Did you brag to all your friends that your mom is so cool and knows how to youtube?” — My mom

    • i was hoping this would help fuel a mom quotes thread

    • I realize the irony stemming from my username here, but otherwise hate HATE HATE that everytime I go to my parents, something “needs to be printed.” How do you people possibly have more shit to print than I do at work? :::sigh:::

    • My Mom: Can you help me figure out why the sound isn’t working on this youtube video?
      Me: You’ve got the volume turned all the way down…
      My Mom: Oh! You’re right, thanks!

      (This actually happened to me earlier today. Seriously.)

    • “So do I click on this thing to make it go away?”
      “Mom, it’s a banner ad!”
      “……..So do I click on it?”
      -Anchor Mother (very true story)

    • “Am I too old to have a Facebook?”
      “Mom, if you want one, just sign up for one. Who cares?”
      “Will you help me?”
      “Sure.”
      (6 months later)
      “Why’d you remove the tags I put on your pictures?”
      “Because I don’t need every pedo asshole on the internet seeing my naked baby pictures.”
      “But you’re so cute in them.”

      I wish I had a time machine…

    • My mom recently learned how to torrent things, but she tends to end up on torrent sites that are just teeming with those garbage ads for hookup websites (or whatever those things are trying to sell). So last time I went home, I walked in on my very straight-laced, school-teachery mother trying to torrent something and, for a fleeting moment, was traumatized by the thought that she was watching pornography, in the middle of the day, with my grandparents in the next room.

      • I think there needs to be a post just solely dedicated to parents using the “internets”. I’ve been lol-ing up a storm reading these.

  4. This can’t be my mother… I buried her in th—uhhhhh— in my heart. I buried her deep in my heart…

  5. I Need to Know if someone will give this a Breakdown.

  6. She loves “horses”.

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  8. My dad told me she was a real Heartbreaker back in high school.

  9. I think this is very super cool.

    • Seriously — we can all agree that this woman is great, right? And she really knocks it out of the park with the Cornhuskers sweatshirt.

      • My own mother has that exact sweatshirt, and I have some Husker gear myself, so I’m giving Mom a pass on this one. I REST MY CASE.

        • I’ll admit I’m probably a bigger sports fan than your average monster and I’m a pretty diehard Husker fan and I can safely I have a few extended family members with that same shirt too. Anyway, I was already pretty pumped for the NU-OU game this weekend and this video only made me more so.

  10. Let me guess soph. You were born in 1951?

    I was just thinking “you know what would be cool going listen to music while people sign passionately.”

    well, anyways thanks for reminding me how un-cool music and sign language are together.

    • Narrator, I have to respectfully disagree. I don’t see how this is uncool.

      There are many who don’t get to enjoy music, which is a huge part of our culture, because they are deaf. I don’t see how signing songs so that they can enjoy them is bad or uncool. Would it be better to leave them out?

      If I could sign (I’ve tried to learn), there would be videos of me on Youtube signing Cure songs.

      • Fair enough,

        I’d be lying if I said I never saw a group of deaf individuals signing that did not move me in some way.

        My point being that it could be cool, but this lady’s facial and body language (not signing) makes it un-cool.

        and so she is doing a disservice to the deaf community by making this more un-cool than it is already perceived to be by the community at large not by me personally.

        Anyways it was however misconceived attempt to make a joke and not offense was intended.

        • Expressive facial gestures are part of sign language. That is how much of the meaning and tone is conveyed.

          I also don’t think it matters how she is perceived by the “community at large”–she is providing a service that transcends our notions of what is “cool.”

      • I was actually thinking about signing brit-pop lyrics the other day… wouldn’t it be almost impossible (or at least counter productive) to try and sign the equivalent of “criminally vulgar shyness”? Does ASL have an italic case for sarcasm or self-deprecation?

  11. @ the 0:17 mark, the sign language gesture for Jesus is to point to where the nails went through. Did not know that.

  12. She does Metallica too, no really. Turns out Lars is a douche in sign too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOSzrzt7Nkk

  13. I love my mom. I’m still trying to get her to interpret “Santa’s a Fat Bitch” for me.

  14. All this time I thought my mom was hanging out with me because she really liked my one woman production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Apparently she was just learning how to get the right lighting for her video :(

  15. I would much rather see my mom (your grandmother) perform this over this glib fool:

  16. I love the look and shrug she gives at the beginning:

    “Honey, I’ve been there- I’ve free fallened”

  17. I used to think the lyrics were “Tree Falling.” I wonder if she would be willing to make an alternate version that better fits my own personal experience with this song.

  18. the greatest trick your mom ever pulled was convincing you she wasn’t your dad.

  19. This is mislabeled; it should be “Soph1951′s Last Dance”-

    ‘She grew up in an ASL town/ Had a sign language Mama, never was around.
    Well she grew up orange, and she grew up bright/ signing songs to the deaf on youtube at night’

  20. This is the Americans with Disabilities Act’s answer to Keenan.

  21. I couldn’t get past the fact that her sweatshirt which said NEBRASKA on the front had most of the letters obscured so the only thing visible was BRA. Yes, I’m six years old.

  22. Last week I posted the “Slayer Christmas Lights Are the Reason for the Season” link on my Facebook (because I was paying attention when Gabe told us to be utilizing the facebooking) and I saw that my mom commented on it. I figured she was going to tell me something about the REAL reason for the season (spoiler alert: Jesus) but instead she said “Aaron, listening to Slayer takes me back to the ’70s, Led Zepplin, Jethro Tull, etc. Love, Mom”
    Keep in mind that my mom thought the movie Jesus Camp was “exciting” and when I was growing up I would always hear her telling people that the three men she admired most were Jesus, my dad, and Rush Limbaugh (in that order I guess). So I got a good LOL out of my mom listening to an entire Slayer song.
    I wanted to share that in the Monster’s Ball last week, but since there was not one, here ya go.

    • Also the kind of person that named her firstborn daughter “Aaron” because God spoke to her while she was pregnant and told her to name me after Moses’ brother because, like him, I would be a “mouthpiece for God” or some shit.

    • that mom-comment-on-my-slayer-link happened to me as well :)
      the response to my post was more of a thoughtful comment on how this video might cause my little brother to have a seizure.
      Vague threat? Who knows, dat´s my mom for ya.

  23. I never knew true happiness until I learned the sign for vampire.

  24. Uh, guys, I’m worried about my mom:

    http://tinypic.com/r/fvzbwz/7

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