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Subject:	Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:11:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Eric Joslin writes: > > I have to say that I've never shopped in the Gap, for a variety of reasons: > > > > i) 'Khaki Pants' means something entirely different in toilet-humour drenched > > UK. The Gap have mercilessly invaded UK culture with an annoying advertising > > campaign, forever making the phrase "He wears khaki pants" not as amusing as > > it once was. > > Eh? Explain. I'm unfamiliar with this slang. Erm, well.. pants is the easiest one.. it means "trousers" in North America, but "underwear, y-fronts" in the UK. Khaki.. erm a bit toilet based this one.. pronounced exactly like "cacky"? So in UK-English: "He wears khaki pants", translates into: "He wears soiled y-fronts" So yeah - I blame The GAP personally for trying to rob us Brits of this valued source of cultural humour! Richard

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		Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) And also, apparently, "bad, or something similar", which has puzzled me no end. as in: Q:"Is the server OK or crashed?" A:"It is pants at the moment, some luser wrote a noddy prog that went pants". or something like that. Why is that? (...) (27 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) AKA "tidy whities"? (27 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) ROFL! In Israel, khaki is pronounced with the strong "chet" sound, that I can't possibly write down in English (like in KHanukka, KHalla, etc) - totally different from, well, cacky (which means the same thing in hebrew, surprisingly). So (...) (27 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) S'funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing as I typed. :D (...) You're welcome. Actually, I was shocked by the spread of Generica to Europe as a whole. Last April I was in two seperate Gap stores in Paris (not my idea...). (...) Eh? (...) (27 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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