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Subject:	Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:27:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Franks writes: > Erm, well.. pants is the easiest one.. it means "trousers" in North America, > but "underwear, y-fronts" in the UK. 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? underwear is good. (try not wearing any... that will convert you.) ++Lar

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		Re: Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
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 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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