From: "Lucy McWilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 02 July 2001 13:17
Subject: Re: TT & new website (buffy)
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Tony Kennick wrote:
>
> > "Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > From: "Piers Cawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I liked Evil Vampire Willow's pants.
> > > Are those US or UK pants?
> >
> > To complicate matters more all my Geordie friends use the word "pants"
for
> > "trowsers" as well, leading to similar sly smiles to the one I suspect
> > Robert has at the thought ;->
>
> So *that's* where I got it from. In addition to the use of the word as in
> 'a big pile of...'. Didn't I hear that's now in the OED?
And of course we have, http://www.favorites.com/~bailey/anh_pants.htm, the
Star Wars quotes with one word replaced by pants.
eg
"Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash.
I recognized your foul pants when I was brought on board." --Leia
/Robert
