A Conversation for Trousers versus Pants

Australia

Post 1

BadZen

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

smiley - laugh


Australia

Post 2

cafram - in the states.

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


Australia

Post 3

Kes

smiley - cdouble


Here too

Post 4

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

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

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.

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


Australia

Post 7

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

Define, please.


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Post 8

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

"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 - time to move on

"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

And funny!

smiley - rofl


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