Tattoo Parlour Pimping (NOT)

[Mark Mandel]

Sounds like a mistake for "pumped".

m a m

On 10/27/07, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> 'Interesting use of the word _pimp_ in today's LA Times
>
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-heffernan27oct27,0,164764.st
> ory?coll=la-tot-entertainment&track=ntothtml
> in the article's sixth paragraph:
> Heffernan says she steered her conversation away from hot-button topics,
> asking instead about family, where the Marines were from, how they knew
> their friends. The subject sometimes turned to the specifics of what
> they'd
> seen. "They really resent almost being pimped for information like that. I
> assumed that they maybe killed somebody in the act of duty. I assumed that
> they saw gruesome things."
>
> stretching a definition found in the Double Tongued Dictionary
> http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/pimp/
>
> (the other) doug
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