Defining "pimp"

[Wilson Gray]

Back in the day, potential tricks were approached with the question,
"Do you wanna date with me?" I interpreted this as "Do you want _to
date_ with me?" So, far about a half-century, I thought, "Hm.
Interesting construction. Perhaps I can do something with that, one of
these days." Then, not long ago, I suddenly flashed on the possibility
that the question could just as easily have been, "Do you want _a
date_ with me?"

Sometimes, procrastination is the better part of leaping to unfounded
conclusions, I guess.

For any Freudians who care, whores addressed their pimps as "daddy"
and their tricks as "baby," whereas tricks addressed the whores as
"mama."

-Wilson

On 2/20/08, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Ouch.
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>  On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > A _pimp_, is defined, as quoted by Jesse in his article, as "a person
>  > who arranges opportunities for sexual intercourse with a prostitute."
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>  > Perhaps that should be modified to read, "in Shakespeare's time" or some
>  > such.
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