Word: pimp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...were very interested in buying anything from the plundered museums and wanting to know if the dealer had access to such booty. "I couldn't believe it," the dealer says. "The war was barely over, and this vulture was trying to profit from our defeat. I called him a pimp...
...Rahimi. A fourth-year grad student at MIT, Rahimi devised a way to conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
...bunch of limey pansies”? In truth, Rahimi explains, the “phat pimp” persona on his website is a ruse. “I thought it would be funny if I pretended to be some sort of ‘technology pimp,’” he explains, “but a lot of Europeans bought into it. They really think I’m this ‘phat dude’ that just happens to carry a rotary-phone handset around.” Rahimi?...
...Latte and I also started the POYA (for those not in the know, the Pimp of the Year Award). It was a scoreboard of how many random notes or phone numbers we could get from the female customers. I don’t think we ever included stuff from dudes in that tally...
...Stewart's mining of Mongol history is fascinating. Who knew, for example, that Khan's son supposedly considered massacring China's entire population? But the author's real strength is in sketching the characters he encounters: a Dickens-loving Russian pimp, a shy newlywed, a Mongolian librarian of Chekhovian futility. Far from the taciturn nomads one might expect, Mongolians are voluble talkers ravenous for news: Stewart disappoints his attentive hosts only when he fails to relay sufficiently lurid gossip...