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Re: Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:07:24 GMT
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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 someone, leaving them with their jeans around their ankles.
-Cheese, the amateur linguistic ethnologist.
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
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> And also, apparently, "bad, or something similar", which has puzzled me no
> end. as in:
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> Q:"Is the server OK or crashed?"
> A:"It is pants at the moment, some luser wrote a noddy prog that went pants".
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> or something like that. Why is that? underwear is good. (try not wearing
> any... that will convert you.)
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> ++Lar
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