# Dressed like a pimp **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859 "2021-04-27T13:19:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/21 "2021-04-28T01:16:50Z")
In Tacoma, there’s a fairly well-known street preacher (who usually hangs out at the mall) who has a different colored pimp suit for every day of the week. Mall policy doesn’t allow him to walk up to people and start evangelizing to them, so he wears the suits so people will initiate conversations with him. He also shopped at the grocery store I worked at in Tacoma before I transferred to a location closer to home, and I’d rate him “mostly harmless”. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/22 "2021-04-28T01:22:27Z")
A Project Management Professional ([PMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Professional)) is something entirely different, but when I see those initials I can’t help but see “PIMP”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/23 "2021-04-28T14:08:08Z")
And the test to pass is notoriously harder to pass than the average certification, so people legitimately describe it as “not being easy”. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/24 "2021-04-28T20:32:32Z")
it may not easy but it is necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/25 "2021-04-28T21:44:12Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l5Ok7My5BKI/hqdefault.jpg "Hank Hill becomes a pimp.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Ok7My5BKI) ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/26 "2021-04-28T22:24:01Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Actual pimps don’t dress that way. Not so sure about that… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j9GppbuStzo/hqdefault.jpg "Pimping in the 70's narrated by Bishop Don Magic Juan :Part 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GppbuStzo) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859/27 "2021-05-14T22:54:22Z")
Wearing all of the flashy jewelry and ostentatious furs and whatnot certainly is useful as far as helping a pimp project an image of wealth and status, but in one sense it’s actually quite practical. If the pimp is arrested, the police will happily confiscate any cash that he has on him, but not whatever he’s wearing. He can then have one of his associates head on down to the nearest pawn shop with some of his valuables and get bail money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dressed-like-a-pimp/940859.md?page=1)