> because it suggests that someone's mother is in college and, as
> everyone knows, you go to college BEFORE you have children? out of
> context, i wasn't sure. is there a reason why a phrase like that would
> be popular -- if it is?
It's from the movie Napoleon Dynamite -- cf. "Vote Pedro" t-shirt phenomena. The character who uttered the epithet certainly was no college grad, and I think a large part of the appeal is that it doesn't make much sense.