pimpin'

[Wilson Gray]

It reminds me of two of my favorite SNL characters, Pimpin' Kyle and
White Chocolate. In my day in Los Angeles, pimps didn't have colorful
monikers. There was Blood, but his nom de rue was only a shortening of
"young blood," a once-hip but innocuous form of address of literary
origin that could be used in speaking to any random dude younger than
the speaker. Otherwise, the players were simply known by their first
names, as in the case of Tommy, a fellow Texas native. All 'ho's had
"sporting names," but even these were all of the "Jane Doe" type, e.g.
Eugenia "Gigi" Miner AKA "Vicky Miller."

-Wilson

On 4/4/07, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> As a hip white boy from rural Wisconsin, I've never heard this.
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> Scot LaFaive
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> >From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
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> >Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:47:44 -0400
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> >One reported detail of the gruesome murder scenario in Atlanta yesterday
> >involved the suspect's words to a bystander/witness:
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> > >The suspect warned Williams, "Get out my way, pimpin'."
> >
> >My trash talk students informed me this morning that "pimpin'" was being
> >used in the sense of "dude" and that this use is commonplace - and is
> >neutral to positive in connotation. Jon, do you have this? Does this match
> >others' observations?
> >
> >Bethany
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