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Re: Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping" (fwd)

To: smithr@wfu.edu
Subject: Re: Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping" (fwd)
From: Swm36ut@aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 15:11:15 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 97-05-01 13:27:07 EDT, DBR writes:

>i think don dripps started it.  just another hearsay rumour. 

I was just talking to someone who debated before Dripps, and he says that it
was being used before Dripps even debated in college... It is a 16th century
English colloquialism, after all, that means exactly what its used for in
debate. It means weak or puny.

Billy

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