Panties (moist)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/20/2011 05:17 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Garson O'Toole
><adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> > AARP's article "Things We're Too Old to Say"
> http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-03-2011/slang-we-should-drop.html
> includes "panties".
>
>How asinine!!
>
>_Panties_ is, in fact, no longer part of my active vocabulary, but
>only because, sadly, I have no use for this word, not finding women's
>undies as riveting a topic of conversation as I did in my youth, when
>even a glimpse of a feminine kneecap was a breath-taking experience.
>And, IME, even back in the day, the number of occasions when panties
>were a topic of conversation bordered on the non-existent

Wilson, are you before or after the age of panty raids?  :-)  They
were not uncommon in my era.

Joel

>and, when
>panties did happen to be under discussion, the traditional BE unisex
>term, _drawers_ [draUz], was used.
>
>BTW, is "panties" even considered to be slang? IMO, it's the standard term.
>
>Besides, the youth of today find what they call "grannie-panties" to
>be an object of derision. Nobody wears them, anymore. So, why would
>anyone discuss them, in the first place?
>
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