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Italian Beauty Her One Ambition is to be a Successful Lingerie Model

Admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:42:08 +0000

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Italian Beauty Her One Ambition is to be a Successful Lingerie Model

Why do we say we are putting on a pair of pants or a pair of panties on?

Admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:35:03 +0000

My mother always used to say “go and put on a pair of pants” or go and put a clean pair of panties on” which I always thought was funny because I only wear one pair of pants or panties. She could never give me a proper answer as to why they are called a pair of pants or a pair of panties, other than it’s probably because they have two leg openings.
So when I asked her “well why don’t you say your putting a pair of bra’s on” she couldn’t answer and just smiled at me.
Well, because it’s always puzzled me I did some research apparently it all goes back to medieval times when pants or panties were refered to as bloomers or knickerbockers and which we now call knickers ” yes but we still say putting on a pair of knickers”.
In those early days underwear, pants, trousers, etc were made in two parts, each part for each leg. The pieces were put on each leg separately and then fastened with a cord or a belt. So the simple answer is the plural “pair” has persisted over time even though pants and panties are now manufactured and worn as one piece.

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Massive Knickers Saves House From Burning

Admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:48:27 +0000

Hartlepool, Northeast England.
John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying some bread in Jenny Marsey’s kitchen on Sunday. When they left the kitchen to answer a knock at the door, they returned to find their meal had caught fire.
To the side of the cooker is a pile of washing in a basket. Lines grabbed the nearest thing from a pile of laundry to try and put it out which happend to be his aunt’s huge powder blue, size XL Granny Knickers.

Says Meryl Gardens resident Mrs Marsey, “My £4.99 parachute knickers have come in handy for something. We’ve had a good laugh that they were used as a fire blanket.”
She continues “When they found the pan on fire they did what most people do and panicked. But they found a pair of my granny knickers in a washing basket and basically used them as a fire blanket to put out the fire.”

“It could have been a lot worse,” she said. “My family could have been in hospital but the knickers saved the day. I’m just grateful to the boys.”

The fire official said the general principle of using a large, wet cloth to cover a grease fire was a sound one.