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Old 09-14-2007   #4 (permalink)
tamlin
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Originally Posted by supertackyman View Post
whas pants???????????
i dont know and its buggiing me.
As George Bernard Shaw once said, "England and America are two countries divided by a common language."

In this case "pants" means poor, inadequate, inferior, substandard, unsatisfactory, deficient, crappy...well, you get the idea!

The Urban Dictionary offers the following etymology:
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Originally a UK schoolboy slang expression: "a pile of pants", presumably the equivalent of dirty, smelly washing.
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