# Seriously People, Am I The Only Person Who Has Never Heard Of A "Pimp Cup"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096 "2009-08-20T17:27:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/81 "2009-08-21T15:10:15Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I saw Julie & Julia and they refer to her mortar and “pess-uhl” :eek: Have I been saying pestuhl like a moron all these years?! I put people who pronounce the “t” in \*\*pestle \*\*in the same category as people who pronounce the “t” in **often**. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/82 "2009-08-21T15:50:04Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. Cecil and Ed in Grant Park! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/83 "2009-08-21T15:53:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Cecil and Ed in Grant Park! When the pidgeon eggs fell. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/84 "2009-08-21T15:56:00Z")
It’s news to me. Of course, I AM an old fart and the whole “ghetto/gansta/pimp” culture phenomenon has passed right by me with barely a blip on my radar (other than finding it all really, really stupid). ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/85 "2009-08-21T16:00:25Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Zathros? Kadir beneath Mo Moteh? > ? > ? > ? > Sokath, his eyes uncovered! > Zathras! > Probably have sad pimp hand, but at least there is symmetry. > > 😃 > CMC fnord! Well, we may not be hip but at least we make it up in nerdiness. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/86 "2009-08-21T16:07:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Shaka, when the walls fell. Not the one. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/87 "2009-08-21T16:43:35Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Zathros? Kadir beneath Mo Moteh? > ? > ? > ? > Sokath, his eyes uncovered! > Zathras! > Probably have sad pimp hand, but at least there is symmetry. > > 😃 > CMC fnord! That, Sir, was well played. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/88 "2009-08-21T16:57:10Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I thought that was “crumping”. Shoot, now I gotta go check! . . . . . Yep it is, only it is spelled [Krump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krumping)! [Crunk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunk) is a style of music. I wonder if you can krump to crunk… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/89 "2009-08-21T17:08:54Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > I wonder if you can krump to crunk… [70smoviemeetsmodernslang] Krump…while Crunk at the CAR WASH (clappity-clap thing here) [/70smoviemeetsmodernslang] ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/90 "2009-08-21T19:47:33Z")
My mind went to two girls one cup. I need help. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/91 "2009-08-21T19:51:59Z")
Shrug, I’d thought of a jockstrap covered in rhinestones… or maybe Swaroskis, they’re putting those in everything now. The real things are pretty much equally bad. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/92 "2009-08-21T20:27:31Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > Shoot, now I gotta go check! > > . > . > > Yep it is, only it is spelled [Krump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krumping)! [Crunk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunk) is a style of music. > > I wonder if you can krump to crunk… I only knew because of one of the “Bring It On” movies: “If we could combine our cheering with your krumping, there’s no way we can lose!” :o ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/93 "2009-08-21T21:30:28Z")
It’s rather obvious from the pictures that “pimp cups” haven’t existed for very long, and will very likely be forgotten in a few years. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/94 "2009-08-21T23:45:50Z")
So… Pimp cups are what drunken frat boys and homeless people pee in when they are on the move? Do I have that right? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/95 "2009-08-22T00:21:18Z")
About 40 years ago, an archetypical example if kitsch was the Venus de Milo with a clock in her stomach. As kitsch, you didn’t simply laugh at it but rather you laughed at the people who liked it. \* “Hey - it’s classy…and functional! What more could ya want?"\* Laughing at kitsch was about laughing at pretension. Back then, Black people were socially invisible. They could be as pretentious as anyone, but while it was enlightened to laugh at middle-class white squares, it was very unenlightened to laugh at Black people. Their excesses of bad taste: Courvoisier drunk from jelly jars; Cadillacs, etc, were seen as pathetic bids to live beyond their victimization. Now, when what used to be called kitsch is brought up, there’s still the stupid middle-class with their McMansions and their framed posters from the mall art store on display to show what hilariously bad taste they have. But more often than not, what’s gets the laughs comes out of the 'hood: bling; dental grills; spinner; the contents of [hotghettomess.com](http://hotghettomess.com), etc. I honestly don’t know if this is a good thing or not. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/96 "2009-08-22T17:57:07Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I had no idea what a pimp cup was - I was thinking athletic supporter with rhinestones? Word Up! ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/97 "2009-08-22T22:02:54Z")
But…the link says that the cup is plastic and you shouldn’t drink out of it…So it just sits around and looks…interesting? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/98 "2009-08-23T00:44:49Z")
Never heard of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Recliner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@Recliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recliner)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/99 "2009-08-23T03:03:52Z")
I’d not heard of it, and heres another thing – since when are “pimp”-related bits of imagery and accessories hip? This is like, 1997-era pop culture here! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096/100 "2009-08-23T17:36:55Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > Crunk is a dance style, yep. Which I only know because I watch _So You Think You Can Dance._ So what you are saying is that the winners of So You Think You Can Dance get **cash for crunkers**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-people-am-i-the-only-person-who-has-never-heard-of-a-pimp-cup/507096.md?page=6)