Glad someone got the reference! Now try this one:
“You’re the priestess, I must confess,
Those little red panties, they pass the test…”
Perhaps it depends on what type you wear? I think of mine as ‘underwear’, but maybe if they were satin and lace (or something) rather than cotton, I’d be more likely to call them ‘panties’?
I think of underwear as anything you wear
under your clothes: panties, bra, slip,
T-shirt, men’s shorts, whatever.
I say underwear, but have always wondered where "bloomers’ came from.
OK men, it’s serious. Someone said ‘bloomers’ 
From an English dictionary:
panties - legless* underpants worn by women**
knickers - women’s undergarment covering the body from the waist to the top of the thighs, and having separate legholes
(also slang for an expression of contempt)
bloomers - women’s loose-fitting almost knee length knickers
(apparently named after Mrs. Bloomer, an American social reformer)
trousers - outer garment from waist to ankles, divided in two to cover the legs
(singular: a pair of trousers)
trouser suit - women’s suit of trousers and jacket
*also slang for drunk
**so what do men wear? The dictionary claims that pants is a US word. It also says shorts is US for underpants - it’s English for knee-length trousers
I can do you some archaic stuff about pantaloons etc, if you ask nicely 
Sorry Green Bean, but the only undergarment term I despise more than panties is “underpants.” I don’t know what the revulsion is all about. It makes me think of trying on bathing suits in a store with my dad when I was a little kid and him saying “Make sure you leave your underpants on.” Eeeew.
As for “panties,” that word is just way too cutesy cute. I only wear one kind of underwear. They don’t have lace, they aren’t silk, and you can’t see through them. They are size 5, cotton, string bikinis in black, white, blue or grey. They are small and sexy but I would definitely not call them “panties.” They’re my undies.
I love that song! (Third Eye Blind, of course.)
Like Annie, I think of ‘underwear’ as being a generic term encompassing underpants of all sorts, t-shirts, bras, slips, and so forth.
Audrey BnL and 3eb kicks ASS!!! 
Just got Maroon today as it happens and ill be seeing them live for the first time Oct. 30th in TN… i cant wait!!!
Wish i could see 3eb live too… U know they just toured… did u go to one of their shows ? i saw them do a 45 minute thing at the HFStival in DC but thats it…
Adrey… u need to set up a fave music topic type thing or something coz i think u got the coolest taste!
As fr the topic of this thread… well i personally find the term panties sexy… actually when i first learned english i thought the word underwear just was a broad term for bras and panties like the word is in danish… i think its weird that it only refers to panties really…
Yeah. That’s it. That’s the problem. Because as has been mentioned, “panties” has sexual connotations. And either:
A: this is not relavent like when I’m getting dressed for work.
or
B: it is relavent, in which case, I, myself, personally, am not feeling cutesy cute. Of course that’s just me.
Just chimed in to give underwear a vote.
The end.
I muchly prefer the word Drawers.
Ruffy, have I told you lately that I love you ?
MMMMMMMMMMM, thongs. (Homer Simpson drool added.)
*She had dumps like a truck . . . *
You honestly I never got that line, but then Sisco is not exactly John Lennon is he ?
Yeah, that was me spurred on by the episode of SportsNight when the woman was constantly remarking about taking hers off during her date. (The whole episode was weird and I only made it halfway through it.)
I think the thing I dislike about it is the very FACT that men find it such a sexy term. Yuck! I don’t want guys getting all stiff about what they call my underwear! It also sounds too much like “Panting,” like a dog does. There’s something “drooley” about the word panties.
Ugh! I don’t like the word “panties”. Like voguevixen, I think it sounds too much like “pant” like a dog panting. It seems like a word my mom would call them. Yuck.
I like “underoos” or “undies”.
Wasn’t the term “panties” considered scandalous in the 50’s?
It was the central point in an old trial movie with ? Cary Grant and Yvette Memeu? “In Cold Blood”?
A trial in Michigan where he get’s her off the hook for murder, but thinks she did it.
See the movie Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with Jimmy Stewart and Geroge C Scott, a major point of the plot was the mention of a pair of panties and how scandalous it was to mention.
Ahem, how about crotch cozies?
(Ducking shoes and rocks thrown by all the women)
I’ll say panties OR underwear, I don’t care.
I LOVED that MST3K episode…I have the biggest crush on Mike Nelson…sigh
Now:
Weren’t knickers also called tap pants?
unmentionables.
jesuslynch: What if someoen asks you to open your drawers?
You asking?
I don’t know. Mommajesus doesn’t even ask anymore.