# pimps up, hos down **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515 "2004-08-05T21:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pervert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@pervert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervert)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/21 "2004-08-06T18:01:55Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Please describe the defining characteristic of a “Choosey Susie”. > > No partial credit. A prostitute who moved frequently from pimp to pimp was known as a “choosy susie”. Please define the term “Out of Pocket”. Show your work. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/22 "2004-08-06T18:06:00Z")
Hey, don’t hate the playa, hate the game. Pimps in the front, hoes in the back, and chumps in the trunk. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/23 "2004-08-06T19:37:42Z")
New term to file in my brain. A murder of crows. A pride of lions. A stable of prostitutes. I \*really, really \* wanna see the “Really Really Pimpin’ in Da South” video. I wonder if Blockbuster has it in their Public Service section. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/24 "2004-08-06T21:26:59Z")
If memory serves, _Pimps Up Hos Down_ was shown on HBO a couple of years ago. Don’t know if it’s the same one referenced in the brief, but that was the title. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/25 "2004-08-07T02:42:20Z")
AAUGH! My browser completely refuses to even load the page linked. Help! ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/26 "2004-08-07T04:48:04Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > AAUGH! My browser completely refuses to even load the page linked. Help! It’s a direct link to a pdf file. Try right clicking on it and saving the link target to your hard drive. -lv ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/27 "2004-08-07T08:08:57Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > C’mon, guys, I don’t think anyone here would seriously disagree with you that the underlying crimes are seriously unfunny. That doesn’t mean that you can’t find black humor/and or fascination with the situation, so long as it has somewhat of a happy ending. Fascination, yes. Humor? Even black humor? I just don’t see it. What, exactly, is supposed to be humorous here? That the pimps had little codenames for prostitutes based upon their behavior? That there’s a bizarre yet extant form of organization amongst those who benefit from exploiting other people and exposing them to grave danger on a daily basis? That ignorant, craven, greedy people who can’t find anything better to do with their lives than exploit others would document their crimes is funny? More like pathetic. I’m sorry, not even a giggle out of me. Not for something like this. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/28 "2004-08-07T17:43:56Z")
You can rent “Pimps Up, Hos Down” at at least the local Hollywood. I don’t know why they say it’s done by “unknown people” - I thought it was done by the people who do the hooker documentaries on HBO. It’s something of a documentary. A lot more about the pimps than the hos, however, so if you’re interested in their side of the story you have to catch the HBO documentaries - I think they’re called “Hookers on the Point” and there’s another one that’s a follow-up. (Er, I’ve had some serious bouts with insomnia in the last five years. Watched a lot of late night TV. Did you know they’re up to Real Sex 31?) There’s this great, if extremely confusing, simile used by one of the pimps about selling hand grenades. I suppose you have to see it to understand. ---
**Author:** ![i\_am\_a\_scientist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f07891/32.png) [@i\_am\_a\_scientist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_am_a_scientist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/29 "2004-08-09T21:53:22Z")
pimps up, hoes down is definitely on HBO from time to time. I’ve seen it as recently as 2 months ago (brushing off my skillz). you can also [buy it](http://www.pimpsup.com/order.htm) it’s amusing, depressing, nauseating and horrifyingly erotic all at once; not unlike Larry King. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/30 "2004-08-09T22:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > The pimps created a system in which their prostitutes were > incapable of supporting themselves or escaping their reliance on the pimp. You load 16 tons and whaddaya get?? another day older and deeper in debt… ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/31 "2004-08-09T22:41:21Z")
Somehow I think _Day, Oh!_ would be more appropriate… It’s a song about loading and unloading bananas all night long. And, I believe, a woman named **Daylight**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515/32 "2004-08-10T02:15:39Z")
Would it be gratuitous of me to mention that, if prostitution were legalized and regulated, the “hos” could go to the police without fear of arrest if some sleazy scumbags tried to rough them up, drug them up, and take their money? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimps-up-hos-down/258515.md?page=1)