pants

ruzuzu Mysteries of Vernacular: Pants. (http://vimeo.com/40556736) Sep 15, 2012

blafferty Laughing so hard I can't see the screen ...
Sad to say the Star Wars list is no longer where the link takes you, and I can't find it anywhere. But here's a truncated list May 4, 2011

PossibleUnderscore Strange article too. Apr 1, 2011

chained_bear Interesting headline here. Oct 13, 2010

LadyFi In the UK, the word 'pants' is also being used as slang to mean: bad. For example, last week Eddie Izzard tweeted that the weather was pants = bad.

Schoolkids also use pants to mean 'not good'. Jun 9, 2009

chained_bear p.s. for Wordieternity, there's some pants fun going on over at we've got to get a reading on those pants, up or down!.

p.p.s. Weirdnet!! Mar 4, 2009

chained_bear Meerkat is when you make up stuff that rhymes with meerkat (or just cat), but you have to invent a clue so other people would guess your invented -kat.

I can't think of any good examples... How about, "A cat that spends a lot of time at the pub" clue might have the answer of "Beerkat."

There was one where the clue was, "A Founding Father -kat that is seen in many places," or something like that, and the answer was "A George-Washington-Slept-Here-kat."

I'm not explaining this well. Somebody pants me. Mar 4, 2009

pterodactyl Meerkat? What is Meerkat (other than a cute animal)? Mar 4, 2009

chained_bear The Pants Game!!! Wow, that sounds even more fun than Meerkat! Mar 4, 2009

reesetee And here I thought it was just my family.... Mar 4, 2009

pterodactyl I know this meme as the Pants Game -- my friends and I used to play it in college. We took turns inventing lines such as these, not just from Star Wars but from any film.

Some I still remember:

"Drop your pants!"
--The Princess Bride

"Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants!"
--The Lord of the Rings
Mar 4, 2009

plethora "A tremor in the Pants. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master."

One that's not in there but should be: "You don't want to sell me any pants. You want to go home and rethink your life." Mar 4, 2009

chained_bear "Search your pants, you know it to be true." Mar 4, 2009

rolig "The pants that can be explained are not the real pants." Mar 4, 2009

chained_bear "Difficult to see. Always in motion is the pants." Mar 3, 2009

reesetee *guffaw* Mar 3, 2009

dontcry HAR! A really productive *snort* Bah!

This is just the ticket for getting through PTA meetings with my sanity intact! Yay! Mar 3, 2009

chained_bear 278 Star Wars Lines Improved by Replacing a Key Word with "Pants." Mar 3, 2009

bilby What you always wanted to read: a brief Japanese essay on pants. Feb 11, 2009

shevek Also a verb, to pull someone's pants down by surprise. Jul 21, 2008

reesetee I just never realized what a remarkably versatile word is pants. It's...why, it's the Pants! Oct 2, 2007

chained_bear Yeah! I'll pants that! Oct 2, 2007

colleen "Pants" is also an expression of badness, such as, "I'm pants at checkers." or "This day has been absolute pants." Oct 2, 2007

reesetee Kid's a genius, John. Get him on Wordie ASAP. :-) Oct 2, 2007

john My nephew, age 3 or so, is sitting quietly in a carseat, when apropos of nothing he blurts out "Aww man, why am I wearing pants?"

I now ask myself that question all the time. Don't alway have an answer. Oct 2, 2007

reesetee Haha! Must use that some day. :-) Oct 2, 2007

kewpid A general term of annoyance.
e.g. “Aww pants!�? Oct 2, 2007

reesetee Shortened from the original pantaloons. Mar 6, 2007

abraxaszugzwang Check out the Wikipedia entry for the British use of pants. Love it. My girlfriend started calling me "Pants" after I took to referring to girls as skirts. Jan 20, 2007