# Who's Your Daddy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917 "2000-07-26T15:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/1 "2000-07-26T15:39:38Z")
What the hell does this mean? I keep hearing it used as if it’s a pickup line or something. I know it appears in that old song ("What’s your name? Who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me?..) But I still don’t get it. Is this a brag that the guy is rich, so you should go to bed with him? If so, it sounds incredibly smug and smarmy. WHATEVER it means, it’s annoying. Were I female, I think this would be a turn-off. So where did this come from? What does it mean? How is it supposed to work? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/2 "2000-07-26T15:49:55Z")
This reminds me of a WAV file once send to me in #straightdope… the _connaisseurs_ will know what I mean 😃 “Hang on, I’ll get you a towel.” ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/3 "2000-07-26T15:54:59Z")
Just another of the many ways that men and women relate to each other. Some folks need a lover to be a parent figure. In my admittedly less than vast experience I’ve found it to be rather common and for the most part there is probably nothing wrong with it. Hell, lots of folks think smug and smarmy is a turn on. Where would all the crank making, Camaro driving mulletheads be if that wasn’t the case? ---
**Author:** ![irish\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ac91a4/32.png) [@irish\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irish_bill)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/4 "2000-07-26T16:04:25Z")
If you’ve heard ‘duckjob’ then it can be an in-joke, in an ‘I’m the boss of you’ sense… I would not recommend using it when you are in receipt of a ‘job’ though. That could get nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/5 "2000-07-26T16:06:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **This reminds me of a WAV file once send to me in #straightdope… the _connaisseurs_ will know what I mean 😃** **Coldfire** – I can’t look at Donald Duck the same way ever again. ---
**Author:** ![sirdiesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@sirdiesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirdiesel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/6 "2000-07-26T16:42:49Z")
It’s definitely not used as a pickup line, and I can imagine that the last guy who tried to use it that way still has a handprint on the side of his face. If anyone’s going to say it as a serious statement, it’s probably going to be during sex. ---
**Author:** ![m3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@m3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/m3)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/7 "2000-07-26T16:46:49Z")
If anybody has used that line seriously during sex. Please 'fess up. So that I can laugh myself silly. I got the impression from various hip-hop albums that it was the sort of thing that a pimp might say to keep his “ho” in line. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/8 "2000-07-26T17:03:17Z")
m3: when involved in a certain…ummm…sexual act. OK! Fine! She was going down on me. Happy!? Anyway, at some point, and I have no idea why I said this, I said “Heh, heh. Call me daddy.” It was the voice I used that made it funnier, but I don’t know how to describe it. It was also, apparently, pretty loud, beacuse I heard snickering outside my door. At the time, I had a roommate and my room had a glass door that led to the patio. My RM and a friend of his had gone out there to smoke and were listening in enjoying themselves. But that’s beside the point. Needless to say, I had a hand print on my chest from where she came around and slapped me. It’s not something I would do again, but well worth the laugh. She was pissed. Not exactly a “who’s your daddy”, but close enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/9 "2000-07-26T17:15:07Z")
A couple funny examples of this are at [http://www.joecartoon.com](http://www.joecartoon.com) Watch the Superfly series, especially part 2. He’s got a sick mind, but sometimes he is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![mipsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mipsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipsman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/10 "2000-07-26T17:23:55Z")
Dennis Miller once said don’t ever use that line, EVER. ---
**Author:** ![mipsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mipsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipsman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/11 "2000-07-26T17:25:17Z")
Of course, it was funnier the way he said it. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/12 "2000-07-26T17:43:38Z")
Brings to mind Telly Savalas’ (sp?) famous Kojak line: “Who loves ya, baby?” ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/13 "2000-07-26T17:53:47Z")
I don’t have an answer - I just wanted to say thanks, thanks a lot - now I’ve got that rotten song going through my brain. It’s the TIME - of the see-eeeason for love-ING… BTW, in Indiana we say, “Hoosier Daddy!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/14 "2000-07-26T17:59:24Z")
So---- WHAT THE HELL DOES IT MEAN?!!!? Is the speaker asking the woman to say that HE’S the daddy? (Not the momma! Not the momma!) That suggests incest or something. Or that he controls her. This would not appeal to most women I know. Forgive me if I’m unspeakably naive here, but I still don’t see the point. This makes even less sense than “Talk to the hand.” (He: “Who’s your Daddy?” She: “Talk to the Hand!”) ---
**Author:** ![aramis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aramis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aramis)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/15 "2000-07-26T18:06:20Z")
It’s 3 lines from the Zombie’s song “Time of the Season”. Whether they made it up or took it from an earlier source, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![labdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@labdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labdude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/16 "2000-07-26T19:19:13Z")
I believe the line is a shortened form of “whos your sugar daddy?” In other words, who is the man you gives you everything you need. It’s not about incest. In the South women used to call their rich boyfriends “daddy” all the time, but with womens lib and all that its now a joke. ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/17 "2000-07-26T21:27:27Z")
I’ve always thought that it meant that you just dominated the other person in some pursuit, whether it be on a basketball court or in the bedroom (which is probably why it isn’t a good idea to say it while still in the bedroom). ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/18 "2000-07-26T21:42:23Z")
There is nothing wrong with consensual dominance and submission or power exchange but it can certainly can be negative in some contexts. I’ve only known two women who wanted to call me “daddy.” By itself it would be no big deal but I knew that both of them had history of some pretty serious family problems which made it extremely creepy for me. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/19 "2000-07-27T00:21:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aseymayo \* > \*\* > BTW, in Indiana we say, “Hoosier Daddy!” \*\* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ---
**Author:** ![sirdiesel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@sirdiesel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirdiesel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917/20 "2000-07-27T01:31:55Z")
I think labdude and funneefarmer got it, since it means both things, but more likely the “sugar daddy” explanation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-daddy/26917.md?page=2)