[Leica] img: Pimp my ride

[leica at dmason.net (Dave Mason)]

Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> writes:

> About 10% of LUG members are not native speakers of English, and
> most of them also live outside North America and hence are not
> exposed to North American television. Can you explain the phrase
> "pimp my ride" to someone for whom "pimp" is not known as a verb and
> "ride" is not known as a noun?
>
> (And then there's the series currently running in Doonesbury, "pimp
> my gimp". Don't even try...)


Back in the day I had a '79 Pontiac Bonneville - my friends called it
the "pimp-mobile". But we had very different notions of what "pimping"
meant back then.

The man I sold that car to actually collected Bonneville's - when I
saw it a couple years later I was quite surprised at how 'more pimped'
it could get.


Dave