[Leica] img: Pimp my ride

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

Imagine a '70s style New York City pimp with the velvet clothes, hat, high 
heel shoes. There's a show on MTV called "Pimp My Ride" 
where they basically dress up your rundown POS car into pimp mobile. "Ride" 
is your car. It's really a contest on how big of rims or 
dubs(that's car wheels) and how many HDTV monitors can fit in one ride(car). 
Most trunks are converted to Xbox entertainment 
centers. That is unless you have no more room after your 12's(subwoofers) 
were installed.

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" Subject: Re: [Leica] img: Pimp my ride


> 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...)