Unsteady pimping

As the Cokesnorting Librarian's father is fond of reminding him, the word "pimp" used to mean something vastly different than what it does now. Back in the 1950s, it meant to pull someone's leg. "Don't pimp me!" you might say to your greaser friend when he told you the bulge in his pocket was a switchblade.

Now (and by that, the Cokesnorting Librarian means, last January) we have the Pimp My Bookcart contest, sponsored by the patently unfunny comic strip Unshelved. (This is an issue that the Cokesnorting Librarian will deal with in forthcoming posts.). This was the winning entry:



Two observations:

1. Once librarians co-opted it, the word "pimp" lost all pop-cultural capital.
2. That won?!?