>>Hi Terry,
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>>::O
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>>>This is when you grab someone's underpants and yank them up into their butt cleft, with all the ensuing discomfort for both sexes :-) All types of underwear thus become "thongs".
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>>Warmers too?
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>>>While I'm at it, fyi, "kecks" is a northern England expression for "trousers". In the US, "pants" are trousers. In the UK "pants" are underwear, except in Liverpool where, like in the US, they are trousers (as well as kecks).
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>>>"strides" and "threads" are of the various "hip" words used for them over the decades.
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>>"keck", anyway, is german for pert/bold, but this one was declared by context ::)
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>>You got an idea how it feel to stay in china, filling the laundry list? With all that confusing terms?
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>Ich verstehe nicht

All the mix with trousers and pants lead to a lot of misunderstandings if you are not familiar with. And you have no idea what the chinese laundry man is reading. Never mind.

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>>By the way, what in the sense of this thread means wearing hot pants?
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>Not sure that is a joke but very short, tight shorts, worn (preferably) by women only, are universally known as "hot pants". Don't see what relevance to the thread that has though???

Hot pants - as you described. Wasn't they developed from underwear?

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>><g>
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>BTW, FYI, where I come from, Liverpool, we're known as "scousers", the accent being "scouse", from a meat and vegetable stew of that name that is traditional to Liverpool, supposed to derive from German seamen's food: "lobscouse"

Labskaus. Special to the north, and even there more likely on the part once covered by western germany.
I need to defend ourselfs against the idea this has a german origin. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labskaus ::)

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>Terry
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>BTW time YOU included a photo too, as well as everyone else who never has yet.

I've told that somebody before. Picture of me:
::)

Agnes