Maybe you should've tried a mother-in-law joke
/talkers take food very seriously.
( The Baroness The Harlot Pimpernel, Wed 13 May 2009, 12:13, archived)

I wouldnt say my mother in law's fat
because she's dead.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Wed 13 May 2009, 12:16, archived)