"What's it provoke?"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aside from the obvious, there is an interesting pimp/dichotomy here as
> well--apparently it was OK for the kid to say that his father was a
> pimp, but definitely not OK to /ask/ if his mother was a prostitute.
> Interesting...


Not really, if you've read any of my tirades against the, IMO,
astounding and misdirected melioration of the word, "pimp," from the
OED on down.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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