Doll Talk: CFM; hoohoo (& other) display stands

[neil]

on 9/8/05 8:32 pm, Jesse Sheidlower at jester at PANIX.COM wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:15:05PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> At 9:40 AM -0400 8/9/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>>> My wife, who collects dolls and makes clothing for them, saw this on one of
>>> her doll forums.
>>>
>>> -- Mark A. Mandel
>>> (by hand)
>>>
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>>> Describing elegant, fancy, stiletto heel shoes:
>>>
>>>>>>
>>> It will probably be about a month before I get the prototypes of those -
>>> probably in the same shipment as these sandals. My roommate in college
>>> would
>>> have called them CFM shoes... I can't say what that means here or the
>>> moderators would remove the post ;-)
>>> <<<
>> This is, I infer, "Come Fuck Me"?  I've heard of "fuck-me shoes"
>> (although I have no idea what they are--I somehow never learned how
>> to decode communication from footware), but not "come fuck-me", but I
>> take it that's what's involved here, unless I have the C wrong.  (As
>> I say, shoes don't talk to me.)
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> Yes, it's "Come Fuck Me". _The F-Word_ has a 1990 example from
> Pam Munro's _Slang U_ (unusually referring to a skirt; it's
> usually footwear). Antedatings welcome. _fuck-me_ adj. is from
> the early 1970s.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED

Not that I'm an expert on these things (see comment on Language of Shoes) ,
but I always assumed 'fuck-me' or 'come-fuck-me' shoes were so named after
their effect of thrusting the female pelvis forward in an invitational
manner.

Because my citations are collected more to show the meaning of the
expression that the first usage, this is only from 1996:

'I could see the sexy, tiny, "come-fuck-me" spiked heels she was wearing and
my eyes followed her shapely black nylon covered legs up to her one bare
thigh.'
--Anon, 'Secret Lifestyle', 1996, www.asstr.org

I can offer you 'fuckme booties' from 1990 (UK publication, possibly earlier
in US):

'And damn if ole Bermuda didn't leap through the curtains shaking like a
catfish on a pole. She wore a floppy Santa cap on her head, and on her feet
velvet fuckme booties with turnedup elfin toes.'
--Seth Morgan, 'Homeboy', Chatto & Windus, London, 1999, 314-315

It's my bedtime over here now, so I look forward to adumbrations in the AM.

--Neil Crawford