Ever since I can remember, accusatory sentences uttered in colloquial situations have always been followed with a defiant "Your mom ate your tater tots!" or "Your mom's face is ugly!"

A little more recently (at least for me), new phrases have entered the conversations, such as "That's what she said," which is pretty much heard every five minutes around here, whether the sentence before it was, in any way, sexual or not.

It's now a popular theme of many of this year's first-hour U.S. history classes. My friend Sierra Marcum has filled up small notebooks with funny quotes every year since sixth grade, and this year's is dominated so far by "clever" that's-what-she-saids. I even added one into my StudProd play.

I really wish I knew where these phrases came from. I suppose "That's what she said" kind of makes sense, but where did "Your mom" come from? Who was the first one to say it, and how did it catch on?

Seriously. They're such stupid phrases that really aren't necessary. If someone said that to me and I'd never heard it before, I would have thought they were completely idiotic. So who on earth thought they were so funny that they started repeating them, and ended up spreading them all over the world, or at least the country?

I think it would be really cool to come up with some stupid phrase like that, and have everyone start saying it. I already feel as if I helped start the trends of Harry Potter and Razor scooters (in America, anyway), so why not be the trendsetter behind the latest nonsensical phrase as well?

Now I just have to think of a good one. Hmmm ….