Pimp talk

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson, you olde traditionaliste, you need to start hangin' on campus more, kickin' with the peeps, gettin' down like Chinatown.

  Any shorty under forty could drop the science that phat chix now "pull" dudes. It's the Big 21, dawg !   Babes even vote !

  JL
  Disclaimer: The above is not intended to represent the natural speech of any human being.


Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: Pimp talk
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As is so often the case, I have no documentation. But, as my
Canadian buddy says, "What the hell, eh?"

The other night, on one of the dating-contest shows, one of the
participants bragged that she could _pull_ any man.

That ain't right. _Pimps_ pull women in order to _turn_ them _out_
as prostitutes.

On the other hand, boys being boys, a woman, prostitute or not,
can often _catch_ a man simply by wearing _catching clothes_.
As a woman on another dating show insightfully noted, "Skin
will win."

In Los Angeles in the '60's, the first customer of the night was
known as _luck_. Catching that first customer was called
_breaking luck_.

-Wilson Gray

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