# Crotchless pantaloons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799 "2007-05-12T02:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/61 "2007-05-14T23:23:02Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] You rode the short bus to school, didn’t you? [/QUOTE] If that’s the best you can do Jodi, it is truly pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/62 "2007-05-14T23:25:35Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] If that’s the best you can do Jodi, it is truly pathetic. [/QUOTE] HA! Look who’s talking. 🙂 Why aren’t you out looking for a dictionary? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/63 "2007-05-14T23:26:44Z")
Hey **Chief Pedant** : I just got off the phone to the Reference desk of the Danbury Public Library. She quoted from an American Heritage Dictionary, published in 2000: gullible - easily deceived or duped. Maybe Random House caved but not all dictionaries. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/64 "2007-05-14T23:29:25Z")
**BarnOwl** , You’re cracking me up here. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/65 "2007-05-14T23:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] HA! Look who’s talking. 🙂 Why aren’t you out looking for a dictionary? [/QUOTE] I did the next best thing. I called a library. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/66 "2007-05-14T23:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] I did the next best thing. I called a library. [/QUOTE] WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA _aaaaaaaaah_ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH! OMG, thank you _so much_, **Barn Owl**! I can’t decide if you’re on the level or not, but I laughed my ass off either way. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/67 "2007-05-14T23:41:00Z")
[QUOTE=Omega Glory] I hope you’re joking **BarnOwl** , and that I’m the one getting wooshed by you. [/QUOTE] Please explain why you hope I’m joking. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/68 "2007-05-14T23:47:29Z")
Waiting to hear from you **Chief Pedant** , and you, too, **Omega Glory**. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/69 "2007-05-14T23:49:10Z")
Well I know you are now that you claimed to have called a library. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/70 "2007-05-15T00:54:53Z")
[QUOTE=Omega Glory] Well I know you are now that you claimed to have called a library. Good one. [/QUOTE] I could have said I checked the American Heritage Dictionary (published in 2000) in my home, but that would have been a lie. That’s why I called the reference Desk of the Danbury Library. I’ve made such calls many times - before the internet, that is. Every call I’ve ever made was received warmly and cordially, and these folks always answered my questions. You’ve never done such a thing at your own library? Try it sometime. Call your library and ask for the Reference Desk. Then ask your question. You might be surprised how happy they are to help. ---
**Author:** ![Chasing\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@Chasing\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chasing_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/71 "2007-05-15T01:32:10Z")
This is what happens when “survival of the fittest” is not allowed to do it’s work. All the weird people stay alive and breed. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/72 "2007-05-15T05:27:58Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] Not necessarily; aren’t Christians supposed to do unto others as they would have others do unto them or something like that? [/QUOTE] 🙂 Good point. And for that matter we are to be as Christ, and he got seriously spanked. By other guys. Obviously a good Christian man should follow his example. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799/73 "2007-05-15T21:46:25Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] 🙂 Good point. And for that matter we are to be as Christ, and he got seriously spanked. By other guys. Obviously a good Christian man should follow his example. [/QUOTE] But I thought that “spanking the savior” was a sin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crotchless-pantaloons/403799.md?page=3)