RE: evolution by mate selection, gene manipulation

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 14:27:46 MDT

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    spike,

    A few days ago I posted a message here about the conversation I had with my
    girlfriend about your bulbous head theory (the interesting theory that 1)
    modern mate selection in humans is driven mostly by females, and that 2)
    women are attracted to men with large heads because their babies have large
    heads, and that 3) this has caused the evolution of larger heads and larger
    brains.)

    I have a fairly large head but my girlfriend as you'll recall thought the
    theory was pretty funny, and remarked that she's attracted to me instead for
    my "pimp juice" (whatever that might be). She listens to a Hip Hop station
    on her car radio and, just as I suspected, that is where she picked up the
    term "pimp juice."

    So what is pimp juice?

    I didn't know and no one here in this thread offered an answer. However my
    friend Jacques from France was intrigued and during an offlist discussion of
    diet and nutrition he took some time to investigate this question for me
    (his email message to me is below, which he wanted me to post onlist with
    his full name and email address, desiring full credit for his excellent
    detective work in discovering the true meaning of this most elusive term).

    It turns out that pimp juice is a song by a rapper named "Nelly." A
    journalist asked Nelly for his definition of pimp juice (Jacques provides
    the link below). Mr. Nelly explained:

    "'Pimp Juice' is anything that attracts the opposite sex. It could be money,
    fame or straight intellect. Whatever you use to get ahead at whatever you're
    doing, that's your 'pimp juice.'"

    So now we know. And I think Nelly is right; pimp juice is "whatever you use
    to get ahead at whatever you're doing." I agree also with you, spike, that
    mate-selection is mostly female-driven in modern humans. I think pimp juice
    is just exactly what women seek in men.

    We'd likely still be living in caves if it weren't for the female thirst for
    pimp juice. :)

    -gts

    > ----Original Message----
    > From: JDP [mailto:jacques@dtext.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:55 AM
    > To: gts_2000@yahoo.com
    > Subject: RE: (off list) RE: evolution by mate selection, gene
    > manipulation
    >
    > > gts a écrit (16.4.2003/18:55) :
    > >> Yes. Basically my skin tone and color improved and I felt stronger
    > >> and better. I think my skin color improved because I had been
    > >> eating too few fruits and vegetables before I switched diets.
    > >> Suddenly my cheeks were rosy and healthy looking, after looking a
    > >> bit drab during the previous year or two on the Atkins diet. The
    > >> paleodiet also seemed to help me think more clearly, but again this
    > >> might be because I was transitioning from an extremely-low-carb
    > >> Atkins ketogenic diet, which probably muddied my brain cells a bit.
    > >
    > > Okay.
    > >
    > >> By the way you pretend to know English very well. :)
    >
    > OK, let me pretend some more, to thank you for your nutrition
    > insights.
    >
    > As you know a pimp is an agent for prostitutes, and juice is slang
    > for money. That's for the literal meaning. Now as you can read at >
    > <http://www.poserman.com/news/templates/music.asp?articleid=87&zoneid=5
    >
    > a rapper named Nelly has a single named "Pimp Juice" and he explains
    > to the journalist the meaning of the phrase (which seems to imply that
    > he coined it, or at least that it is a recent creation in his
    > subculture):
    >
    > Nelly explains that, "'Pimp Juice' is anything that attracts the
    > opposite sex. It could be money, fame or straight intellect.
    > Whatever you use to get ahead at whatever you're doing, that's
    > your 'pimp juice.'"
    >
    > Jacques



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