A Conversation for Trousers versus Pants
Australia
BadZen Started conversation May 15, 2002
In Australia, pants are trousers, trousers are pants, underpants go underneath them, and a "melvin" is a "wedgie".
Australia
cafram - in the states. Posted Jun 11, 2002
...and then, of course, there's the atomic wedgie 
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office 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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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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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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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office 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.
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Gnomon - time to move on 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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- 1: BadZen (May 15, 2002)
- 2: cafram - in the states. (Jun 11, 2002)
- 3: Kes (Jul 19, 2002)
- 4: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Nov 16, 2004)
- 5: Captain_Sanity (Dec 20, 2004)
- 6: cafram - in the states. (Dec 20, 2004)
- 7: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Jan 12, 2005)
- 8: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Sep 15, 2005)
- 9: Gnomon - time to move on (Aug 20, 2007)
- 10: BadZen (Aug 20, 2007)
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