RE: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 13:55:31 BST

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Sorry, it's a Brit term.

In the UK, pants are what you wear under trousers (what you lot call pants-
very confusing for us Brits when we hear 'pants' in the movies, mainly
because the term is an abbreviation of underpants, so most of us don't quite
know how you lot came to use it for trousers).

A recent high profile charity campaign here had the catchphrase 'Pants to
Poverty', for example (and, no it didn't mean give your trousers to the poor
:-)).

Vincent

> ----------
> From: Wade T.Smith
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:45 pm
> To: memetics list
> Subject: RE: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics
>
> On 04/24/01 04:58, Vincent Campbell said this-
>
> >it's all pants
>
> Ain't heard that expression before- meaning 'it's all pants and no
> balls?' perhaps.
>
> - Wade
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