# Finally! I'm wearing big girl panties! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983 "2007-11-11T02:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/1 "2007-11-11T02:50:33Z")
This is completely mundane and pointless, but I have to share!!! I have just watched a portion of The Wizard of Oz that I have never seen! Note to Mods: This is really more mundane than it is about the movie itself, I promise. When I was a child I was scared to death by the monkeys. I couldn’t watch it. I would run from the room or turn the channel. Therefore, that is what I have always done. Well, tonight I’m at a different point in my life. I’m 40. I’m tired. I don’t have the energy to turn the channel. Plus, I realize that my fear is childish. I’m going into a new phase in my life and this is just the first of many things that I am going to prove to myself that I can do! I’m gonna the Wizard of Oz without turning the channel or looking away. I don’t think I have ever seen the men with the green faces before! 😛 Wow, this is all new!! Has anyone else faced their fears lately?? Maybe it won’t be so bad! ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/2 "2007-11-11T02:54:10Z")
If that was scary, don’t watch [Return to Oz](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089908/). The claymation for the mountain king and the electrotherapy machine still creep me out. On the plus side, it has a talking chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/3 "2007-11-11T02:58:24Z")
Oh le Oh, OOh Oh ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/4 "2007-11-11T03:30:54Z")
Flying monkeys aren’t really all that scary … unless they are flying out of your butt. That’s just not good. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/5 "2007-11-11T03:44:07Z")
I can’t handle the schoolteacher scene in Gremlins. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/6 "2007-11-11T03:45:07Z")
Flying monkeys are kid stuff. We have giant flying cockroaches. Now THOSE will weird you out. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/7 "2007-11-11T04:20:09Z")
For me, in the Wizard of Oz, it was the trees grabbing at you. Creeped me out big time! Had big deal nightmares, and would not watch the movie for a very long time. I don’t know how old I was. I would like to point out that I was most disappointed when I opened the thread and there actually was nothing about big girls panties. Hmmmm, perhaps that was something I should not have shared. Tris ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/8 "2007-11-11T04:40:17Z")
It was the witch on the bicycle for me. One the floor, cowering. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/9 "2007-11-11T05:14:43Z")
For me–no matter how much I _know_ it’s an urban legend–that scene in the forest after Dorothy and company exit stage right and something moves in the trees always sends a little chill through me. Also, I’m going to try and get on an elevator at some point soon. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/10 "2007-11-11T05:21:44Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Also, I’m going to try and get on an elevator at some point soon. [/QUOTE] No, no! It’s a tra ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/11 "2007-11-11T05:45:13Z")
p! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/12 "2007-11-11T06:37:42Z")
I will open and respond to any thread with the word “panties” in the title. I love the word: panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties! Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/13 "2007-11-11T21:42:09Z")
Around our house, when the kids were young and transitioned from diapers to toilet training, we called pull-up disposable underpants " big boy/girl pants". I read the OP’s title and thought, holy crap, an articulate thoughtful 3 1/2 year old is now a Doper. :eek: 😃 I got nightmares in a major way when the dead witches feet curled up under Dorothy’s house. I used to cover my eyes when it would air every year at that moment. Now I shudder. Still gives me the willies. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/14 "2007-11-11T21:48:08Z")
[QUOTE=Triskadecamus] For me, in the Wizard of Oz, it was the trees grabbing at you. Creeped me out big time! Had big deal nightmares, and would not watch the movie for a very long time. I don’t know how old I was. I would like to point out that I was most disappointed when I opened the thread and there actually was nothing about big girls panties. Hmmmm, perhaps that was something I should not have shared. Tris [/QUOTE] I bought some new big girl panties at Victoria’s Secret yesterday. The signature cotton bikinis are the only panties I like. I wear the extra small so I have to look through a lot of panties to find the ones that are my size. How was that? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/15 "2007-11-12T00:50:09Z")
You know that scene in Ghostbusters at the beginning, when Ray is talking to the ghost librarian, and she totally explodes into this creepy wispy ugly faced skeleton creature? I was about 21 before I actually got up the nerve to watch that scene without hiding my eyes. It was a bold step forward into adulthood. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/16 "2007-11-12T01:24:47Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] I will open and respond to any thread with the word “panties” in the title. I love the word: panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties, panties! Yum. [/QUOTE] I just thought of you while flipping through the channels on the tv. That 70’s Show was on and Donna was finding panties everywhere in Eric’s room (in a little daydream) and then she asks him to explain and surrounded by panties he flings them in the air and says, “panties, glorious panties!” ---
**Author:** ![Shryn\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Shryn\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shryn_King)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/17 "2007-11-12T01:26:33Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] You know that scene in Ghostbusters at the beginning, when Ray is talking to the ghost librarian, and she totally explodes into this creepy wispy ugly faced skeleton creature? I was about 21 before I actually got up the nerve to watch that scene without hiding my eyes. It was a bold step forward into adulthood. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I know what you mean about the “bold step forward into adulthood.” I feel like I am an adult now. I have watched The Wizard of Oz and actually want to see it again. There are some great lines in it. Who would have thought??? ---
**Author:** ![notthatagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/18 "2007-11-12T02:48:50Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] p! [/QUOTE] Good lookin’ out SS! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/19 "2007-11-12T03:08:00Z")
[QUOTE=Way Too Happy] Good lookin’ out SS! [/QUOTE] “Live together, die alone.” ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983/20 "2007-11-12T04:33:35Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] . . . panties at Victoria’s Secret . . . How was that? [/QUOTE] ooooooooooooo Great! Was it good for you too? Tris [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-im-wearing-big-girl-panties/425983.md?page=2)