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

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Wed Aug 10 00:23:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:14:05PM -0400, Grant Barrett wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 18:52, Baker, John wrote:
> >Just as popular, and in fact beating fuck-me shoes on Google, are
> >fuck-me boots.[...] The earliest on Google Groups is from
> >7/31/1991: "what is a drug? anything that affects your behavior?
> >like a miniskirt and fuck-me boots?"
>
> Earlier (though not earlier than the plain adjective, as Jesse says),
> and to me the canonical form, are "fuck-me pumps." The post is 1990,
> but it seems to quote a message from March 27, 1989.

Indeed, the first _F-Word_ (and OED) quote is for _fuck-me pumps_,
from David Bowie:

1974 D. BOWIE We are the Dead (song) in Diamond Dogs (CD
Lyrics booklet) (1991), I love you in your fuck-me pumps And
your nimble dress that trails.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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