"Whf are you doing in _those_ underwear?" [NT]

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

What Cary Grant said was "gay," which in the 1930s ddn't mean 'homosexual' or (arguably) 'transvestite' but was associated with skimpy garments worn by burlesque dancing-girls. Of course, he was wearing Hepburn's nigjtclothes, not her undergarments. And his questioner said "clothes," not "underwear"!
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At 4/29/2010 01:19 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>I've just gone gay all of a sudden?

Don't you mean transvestite?  After all, (some) vests are underwear.

Joel

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