My mother talks into the phone like a combat soldier calling in air support.

You're mother is so stupid... ... She threw water on the computer to put out a flame war!

Sergeant to Troops A well-seasoned Army Sergeant received a brief phone call, then had his troops line up and barked, ""All right, all of you whose mother isn't dead take one step forward . . . uh, not so fast there, Private Smith!""

Anecdote Bill Gates When Bill Gates was in the sixth grade, his parents decided that he needed some kind of help. He was at war with his mother Mary, an extrovert woman who believed that he should do what she told him. She would call him to dinner from his bedroom, which she had given up trying to make him clean, but he wouldn't respond. ""What are you doing?"" she once asked him. ""I'm thinking,"" Bill answered. ""You're thinking?"" ""Yes, Mom, I'm thinking,"" he said aggressively. ""Have you t…