[OT] Pants [was: Re: [plug] Linux ideology (was: EduBDO/SIGfest)]

[James Devenish]

In message <BAY2-F32GBZ44z0tN5d00019c6f at hotmail.com>
on Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:00:57PM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> I can't see 'pants' being used in a GUI very often,

Oh, you use business apps? ;-)

> but don't we both say pants?

I'm not sure which "we" you are referring to. :) If you asked me to
complete the sentence "SuperMan looks like he wears his ____ on the
outside", I would answer "pants", as though people would normally not
have their pants exposed in public!