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Re: Pants (was Re: Recreational vehicles and more questions about the US
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:41:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.)
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 television program - and used the phrase many times per episode.. from
there it took off. Dominic, at various stages of his career also vaguely
resembled Todd!
So yeah, when someone says "This is pants", they don't mean that underwear is
bad as such.. although there is a stigma about y-fronts that probably has
something to do with it. Culminating in the two-tone brown (by design - no
hidden reference to khaki pants), pair that probably originated from the 70's
but still reside in the cultural conciousness for no reason that they are
probably the least fashionable underwear imaginable. Although Richard Richard
from the TV show Bottom (has that been shown in the US yet?) does come close.
Richard
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