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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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? (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Could the usage on this possibly "pantsed", Lar? As in; "Some luser ha><or pantsed the system by routing his IP through the net-aware toaster.", perhaps? This is an Americanism for the (theoretically endearing) trick of forcibly de- trousering (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I actually know the root of this one - it was invented by a staff writer of "The One" - an Amiga Games Magazine, it was picked up by Dominic Diamond, (who praised it in an article), who happened to host "Games Master" - a national games (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) AKA "tidy whities"? (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I always thought it was "tighty whities", but yes, Y-Fronts are the same thing, just a color-nuetral term. eric (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ROFL! In Israel, khaki is pronounced with the strong "chet" sound, that I can't possibly write down in English (like in *KH*anukka, *KH*alla, etc) - totally different from, well, cacky (which means the same thing in hebrew, surprisingly). So (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you ever hear anyone in Boston say, "Aw, where did I put my khakis?", it's because they're locked out of their car. :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure, why not. -Chris (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) XFUT .o-t.fun OK... where should I start... (Just a few terms so you know what I'm talking about: groups are organized by age. A "Shevet" is a local group, containing kids of various ages.) Israel in general is a very outdoors country. The (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Honey, d'jya pahk the kah outside th'pahtment?" "No, I fohgot the khakis!" :-) -Shiri XFUT .fun (hehe, Todd, do we need an .off-topic.accent NG? ;-) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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