Ask Goose & Jaspr...

[Pa Goosehntr]

  Depends iffin you are from Boston or not as they talk funny too those same folks developed: night, nite, and knight...so it musta been a bunch that had Ernie's directions, and Dr. P's edumacation!

[jaspr1]

  The Great "Thing Namer"............he's mysterious like the Wizard of Oz but has a sense of humor  Just drive through Perry Co. and observe the signs and you will see what I mean  ...............

[Hern]

Our local Kmart is closing and has storewide discounts.
Wife told me to stop at Kmart & buy a couple of pair of pants.
I listen to her, I went to Kmart. I came home with a robe.

Why do folks call pants, a pair of pants?

 

[Pa Goosehntr]

  Cause you can't just buy one leg  just like you can't eat just one tater chip!! just like you can't have just one shot of whiskey cause you have two legs to stand on !! Whatcha tink of tat?

[Hern]

Cause you can't just buy one leg...Whatcha tink of tat?
Don't think too much of that answer.
Goose, you are confusing.
My shirts have two arms. Nobody calls them a pair of shirts.

[jaspr1]

  What we now call “pants” or “trousers” were originally known as “pantaloons,” after Pantalone, a stock character in 16th century Italian commedia dell’arte (theatrical comedy) usually portrayed as an old man wearing short, baggy pants. The Anglicized form “pantaloon” soon appeared in English meaning “a foolish old man” (as in Shakespeare’s “lean and slippered pantaloon” from As You Like It), but the term was also applied to the Pantalone style of trousers, eventually giving us the shortened form “pants.” But “pants” in the 16th century differed from today’s jeans in that each leg was a separate garment, donned in succession and then belted together at the waist. Thus it made sense to call these “two-piece britches” a “pair” of pants, and the usage stuck long after pants were unified. We speak of “a pair” of shorts or swimming trunks because of the precedent set by “pants.”

Us "Old Coots" were around when it was fashionable to wear these single leg garments...LOL.....

[Pa Goosehntr]

  Hern says: "Goose, you are confusing." (My job here is done)
"My shirts have two arms. Nobody calls them a pair of shirts" Now on this shirt issue.. Larry the Cable Guy doesn't have sleeves on his shirt but it's still called a shirt...so why would you ask about pairs of shirts when not all have sleeves/arms?? 

[Hern]

Thanks Jaspr1. That certainly clears things up. And thanks for straightening me out.
Surely didn't get the same 'pair' of answers from you two.
Now if Goose will fly down from the clouds and read your reply, he will know too.

[Pa Goosehntr]

  Hern has been bedazzled!!

[Hern]

Naw.
Jaspr considers this thread serious and a learning place. He's setting a standard.

[jaspr1]

  "Theatrical Comedy" is serious business!!!  ........................

[Pa Goosehntr]

  I be the Jester.. throwin bowling pins..

[Pa Goosehntr]

  jaspr1 I'm guessin we done edumicated these wipper-snappers too gooder as they don't ask any questions of we the elite anymo...

[jaspr1]

  Well it's your fault!  You don't take this serious enough!  Besides our chief "Knows Everything" isn't talking to us since the big SAFARI.    I told you...when he can't see you shoot a stump!    That way he will think he called one in and we missed  and he will be happy!  But NO you wanted to teach him responsibility  you didn't WANT TO CODDLE HIM LIKE MOMMY  now he's off on a secret Fisher & Bobcat SAFARI and we .............his two BEST Buds.........didn't get an invite!  Sooo go sit next to the stove  and sip vino and I will get back to my checkers game here at the home    .......

[Pa Goosehntr]

  "I will get back to my checkers game"  So your makin a quilt under your CEO's watchful eye??