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A Conversation for Trousers versus Pants

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Post 1

BadZen

Started conversation May 15, 2002

In Australia, pants are trousers, trousers are pants, underpants go underneath them, and a "melvin" is a "wedgie".

smiley - laugh

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Post 2

cafram - in the states.

Posted Jun 11, 2002

...and then, of course, there's the atomic wedgie smiley - winkeye

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Post 3

Kes

Posted Jul 19, 2002

Here too

Post 4

TRiG (Ireland) "Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!"

Posted Nov 16, 2004

I'd never heard of 'Melvins' before reading this article. I've always known them as 'wedgies'.

(I'm from the republic.)

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Post 5

Captain_Sanity

Posted Dec 20, 2004

Clearly the author invented the term "melvin" - marvelous name though it is. Wedgies around the world.

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Post 6

cafram - in the states.

Posted Dec 20, 2004

nono! 'Melvin' is in Bill and Ted - the one with the Grim Reaper.

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Post 7

TRiG (Ireland) "Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!"

Posted Jan 12, 2005

Define, please.

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Post 8

TRiG (Ireland) "Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from science!"

Posted Sep 15, 2005

"Bill and Ted - the one with the Grim Reaper"

What on earth are you talking about, cafram?

And while you're about it, what's an atomic wedgie whan it's at home?


TRiG.smiley - biggrin

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Post 9

Gnomon - Taking a Break

Posted Aug 20, 2007

"Bill and Ted, the one with the Grim Reaper" is the second "Bill and Ted" film, officially known as "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey". It is an American film.

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Post 10

BadZen

Posted Aug 20, 2007

And funny!

smiley - rofl

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