Above some stats from the Cardinals/Padres game the other night, one of the sports broadcasts ran the headline “Who’s your padre?” Cute enough, but now I’m wondering, where does “Who’s your daddy?” come from as a sexual cliche? And does anyone really say it during sex?
Although this page makes note of the role of the Zombies in popularizing the phrase, the first entry states that the term dates to prison and underworld slang of the mid-1800’s.