Have we sunk so low as a society that it’s considered disparaging to compare a person to an implement of small-scale agriculture? Is this supposed to be some kind of slam?
“Yer a HO!”
Yeah, and you’re a pair of pruning shears, or possibly some type of rake. Roger Swain probably stirs his compost heap with your ass. Wouldn’t be surprised, someone with a soil pH as low as yours.
I first saw the “ho” spelling in a 1980’s SNL sketch with Eddie Murphy. He came on as the author of a self-help book entitled, I Wanna Be A Ho, and the point of the “book” was to teach the reader how to do that.
Though the “Ho” pronunciation might have been current in some quarters before that, that’s the first time I saw it spelled that way. I suspect it took off from there.
Last night’s rerun of the FX drama The Shield had a disgruntled former boyfriend spraypainting in large letters ‘HOE’ on the door of his former inamorata.
After they reconciled, he tried to scrub it off, failed, and decided the next best thing was to disguise it by adding a large ‘S’ to the front of his previous comment.
You know, when I was growing up in the Bronx it was always pronounced it HOO-er. I was amazed when one of my friends told me this curse-word actually appeared in the bible! But in the bible it was spelled “whore,” nothing like the way it was pronounced.
Hey, I got nothing against Turkey Basters. I have some friends who are turkey basters. They should be able to baste in peace, so long as the man and fowl are both consenting adults.
I still get an occasional giggle from this billboard that was (and may still be) in Manitowoc, WI when I was growing up.
It was a sign for a restaurant. They wanted the world to know that they had homemade bakery. But they wanted it in really big letters, and didn’t have enough room, so the abbreviated it and, in really big type, proclaimed to the world that they served “Ho-Made Bakery!”
I figured they must have bussed the Ho in from Milwaukee.
