Terrapin Tables

First of all, if I went up to a tall guy playing flip-cup and pulled his pants down, I would have a whole new set of problems. I am gonna go with de-pantsed. I think pantsed is what groups of drunk guys do at a bar when a cute girl walks by, tongues lolling out of their mouths. For whatever reason, I think in our high school I can remember it being referred to as getting 'shagged.' So, if a girl were to de-pants a guy, what is acceptable retaliation?

On the rare occasions I've used this word, I think I've gone with "pantsed". It should be "de-pantsed", but you know how crazy people are about making their own lives simpler. There's not much else one can do to someone else involving their pants other than taking them off, so maybe that's why "pantsed" is used by some people. It's kind of like the whole flammable/inflammable deal - it really should be "inflammable", but people kept thinking that meant UNflammable, so the lablels were changed to say "flammable" and people figured that was an evil looking word, and that ended up working as a good warning.

And on another note, I really need to go to bars with you more if this is the sort of thing that happens to the guys around you. I mean, I've taken my own pants off enough times in public, but it's usually followed by bodily functions, people crying, cops... etc.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country.

I remember it being pantsed, not de-pantsed. That just takes too much effort to say.

I think I would say "pantsed". De-pantsed sounds funny when you say it outloud and are talking about someone getting their pants pulled down. It seems formal. Sounds better when you are writing though.

Damn you whoever stole the Dr. Nick line! That is one of my favorite episodes. "Dang, you could be one of them TV magic queers." -- Cletus

Yeah, I always said, "de-pantsed"... I thought of the whole flammable / inflammable thing and I guess it does go either way. I hypothesized that it was a West Coast vs. East Coast thing but I checked with my friend from Oakland, CA and he always said "pantsed." Hmmmm... perhaps it was just a side effect of growing up in Vegas? We always were a tad on the eccentric side of things.

And Rick - this is purely hypothetical... you know, in case a friend (you-don't-know-her-she-lives-in-Niagra-Falls) should decide to depants someone out at a bar with flip-cup involved.

And John - as far as I know, there really is no retaliation. If the situation were reversed... say a girl gets her skirt flipped up while she is bending over fixing her shoe, a slap would be completely warrented. Unless of course Aryan was the one flipping the skirt. Then it is just all in good fun. Girls can get away with so much more than boys... am I a traitor to my gender for admitting this? Sure. Not like it is a big secret though.

Sidebar: Rick has "13 Going on 30" from Netflix. Sure, Jennifer Garner is cute. Hot. Really hot . . . but "13 Going on 30"? Come on. Also, can I have it when you are done?

Sidebar to the Sidebar: Rick also has Get Real - This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young man in a British prep school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with the class jock, John... who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.

Rick? Do you have something to share?

Haha. I was hoping you guys didn't look up Get Real. It was recommended to me by Netflix after I decided to rent a bunch of independent films (films that are usually okay, but once in a while a really good one comes along - ideal for renting). I then actually looked up the plot. But hey, it's on there now.

And 13 going on 30 is the J's fault. I managed to avoid it while it was in the theaters, but the J asked me to get it now that it's on DVD. I obliged, despite her recent track record of getting horrible movies (Timeline was last night's retch-fest). But hey, Jennifer Garner is pretty hot.

A guy at my work (Mike) calls it shanking (5th one down). So, there's one more word to throw in there.

Shanking is when you stab someone with a sharpened toothbrush. Shagging is when you pull their bottom shoelace real hard so it sticks out and the rest of the shoe is all tight. Yanking someone's pants down is junt "pantsing" them. Yeah, it seems backwards, but that's the way it goes. Anyone hear John Madden talking about the sanity of caling it "head over heels" last night? Same thing, except different.

rick could you burn "13 going on 30" for me? i watched it last night with a bunch of my girlfriends and we all fell in love with jennifer garner's costar (and of course jennifer garner - she's so hot!).

Girlfriends? Jennifer Garner? Best visual ever. Just for that, I'll get you a copy ASAP.

just as the t-shirt quote for you said, "all grown up and still fascinated by nipples". thanks for the copy though. i guess i'll pick it up at roy's shindig!

Pants or depants? Why not separate them into two different meanings?
Pantsing: one person pulls down another's pants in a surprise attack from behind (what Australians call "dakking" from "Daks" a make of trouser.
Depantsing: A group overpowers someone and forcibly strips him of his pants (what the British call "debagging" from "bags" meaning trousers.
-Simon