Generalized Whore

[Sam Clements]

"Attention whore" gets 79,000 Google hits.

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:07 PM
Subject: Generalized Whore


>I thought "sushi whore" was a funny, innovative marketing term
> (www.sushiwhore.com) when I first spotted it earlier this year at Mashiko.
>
> Today, though, I overheard a woman say, "I'm, like, a big clothes whore"
> outside Caffe Fiore in Seattle in reference to her not having a large
> enough
> closet. "A clothes whore" gets no fewer than 332 Googits, "a sushi whore"
> 25, "a beer whore" 127, "a dog whore" 112 (though that includes many
> beastiality references), "a coffee whore" 150, and "a Starbucks whore" no
> fewer than 70.
>
> It seems an X whore is someone who has a fondness for X beyond what is
> normal. I wonder if the Starbucks reference is more at being exploited by
> X,
> though. Surely that is part of the semantics at least some of the time.
>
> The spelling of "ho" is basically non-existent. 1 Googit for "a clothes
> ho",
> zero for sushi, 1 (maybe two) actual hits for beer ho, zero for dog ho,
> three for coffee ho, and zero for Starbucks ho.
>
> Counts for "whore" are raw Google numbers. Counts for "ho" are only hits
> with this use of "ho".
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Baking the World a Better Place
> www.hiroki.us
>