# Origins of "hookers and blow" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 25, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143 "2014-12-25T06:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/21 "2014-12-27T05:00:54Z")
I always thought it was from _Bachelor Party_, which came out in 84. Can’t be sure, never saw the whole thing and don’t intend to. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/22 "2014-12-27T05:45:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I always thought it was from _Bachelor Party_, which came out in 84. Can’t be sure, never saw the whole thing and don’t intend to. I found the script online, and the line is “Let’s have a bachelor party, with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze…” No mention in the script of “blow” paired with “hookers.” ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/23 "2014-12-27T10:50:32Z")
> [@Cardboard](#): > > That got me thinking, that’s a fairly common way of suggesting wasteful spending of large sums of cash. I thought that was the entire point of getting rich. “I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.” – George Best ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/24 "2014-12-27T16:00:16Z")
There’s a possibly related meme of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s breasts. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/25 "2014-12-27T16:35:08Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > I thought that was the entire point of getting rich. > > “I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.” > – George Best It’s not the sentiment, it’s the phrase. The phrase is inherently funny in a way that the other expressions of the sentiment are not. Why? I dunno. Probably something to do with meter and register. But it’s funny in a way that “whores and narcotics” simply isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/26 "2014-12-27T18:12:33Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > There’s a possibly related meme of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s breasts. As well as their butt cracks. I know because I saw _Wolf of Wall Street_. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/27 "2014-12-27T20:16:41Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Why? I dunno. Probably something to do with meter and register. But it’s funny in a way that “whores and narcotics” simply isn’t. Well, for starters, I don’t think any john expects the whore to narcotic him (they sometimes do, but it’s not part of the package deals offered). ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/28 "2014-12-27T21:07:32Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Well, for starters, I don’t think any john expects the whore to narcotic him (they sometimes do, but it’s not part of the package deals offered). The “blow” in “hookers and blow” is cocaine. This is absolutely unequivocal. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143/29 "2014-12-27T21:24:23Z")
I always assumed that it came out of the 80’s because that’s the only time I remember cocaine being called “blow” but maybe that’s just my region, or maybe it’s a newer expression. I wonder if it’s related to the old D&D “whores and ale” expression, which I definitely remember from my gaming in the 80’s, with the sense that it was probably around even before I got into the hobby. It was the same kind of scenario - your adventurers just killed the dragon and are hauling back thousands of gold pieces to the local tavern. What are you going to do? “Spend it on whores and ale!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origins-of-hookers-and-blow/708143.md?page=1)