Another form of "the question"

[mbhandy]

I have used the response (In a Bar) of you show me yours and I'll show you mine and learned that there are a lot of women that will and I just give them the moon. :butt:

No frontal and it still keeps the mystery

Not....

MrBill

[James MacMillan]

I have used the response (In a Bar) of you show me yours and I'll show you mine and learned that there are a lot of women that will and I just give them the moon. :butt:

No frontal and it still keeps the mystery

Not....

MrBill

Me too - there are a lot of women who like to show off - but I don't moon them. I always wear a sporran, so I just grab my kilt at the side, and lift it enough to show plenty of leg.

But women in bars, are different than a women in a grocery store.

Then of course there is always my new answer - "Question 13!"

[londonpiper]

As a regular busking piper, the reply to "that question" that I've found most effective is a big smile and the word "Lipstick".

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Don't answer them. Instead, ask the clot (or clotette) if they're wearing boxers with pictures of Homer Simpson on them, or maybe a thong-- "ooo, bet that's no fun on a bike"-- or maybe they're into tightie-whities? Tell me, what sort of underwear are you wearing? They will inevitably change the subject.

[BoldHighlander]

It all depends on who is asking "the question" of me (& their tone). But if I do answer its usually a simple "whatever I bloody well want...or don't!"

[Jack Daw]

The tradition NOT to wear underwear under the kilt, or to "go regimental" or "go commando", is sort of a misplaced idea. Before briefs, undershorts, or long-johns were invented, kilt wearers wore long shirts that were in essence slips. The shirt was considered an undergarment because a man always wore a waistcoat and/or a coat over that. The shirt or 'sark' was worn long, to mid-thigh or even lower, so this was the underwear. At night the kilt and waistcoat would be set aside and the man would sleep in his long shirt and night cap. Refer to any illustration of Ebenezer Scrooge getting a visit from Marley for a clue.

Because none of us wear the long-tailed shirts anymore, I see nothing new about wearing some other sort of undergarment with the kilt. It won't be a woman's slip, I'm tellin' ya.

[Galician]

I absolutely agree with Jack, since I accept the theory that the plaid was worn over a leine, just like garments worn by other cultures in the ancient world.

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . . The shirt or 'sark' was worn long, to mid-thigh or even lower, so this was the underwear. . . .

And this was the practice among most men in the western world, not just the kilted. With the possible exception of some very rich people, separate undergarments were introduced in the nineteenth century A.D. and became common only in the twentieth. I suspect that the main reason they became common at all was that the development of knitting machines made them economical.

It appears that the term "regimental" originated because some of H.M.'s regiments required the practice, at least among the O.R.'s, and the term "commando" (in this sense) was coined by people who were unaware of the regimental practice.


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[McFarkus]

A way to preserve the mystery is, "As a gentleman, I would never answer that question."

[Jack Daw]

And this was the practice among most men in the western world, not just the kilted. With the possible exception of some very rich people, separate undergarments were introduced in the nineteenth century A.D. and became common only in the twentieth. I suspect that the main reason they became common at all was that the development of knitting machines made them economical.

It appears that the term "regimental" originated because some of H.M.'s regiments required the practice, at least among the O.R.'s, and the term "commando" (in this sense) was coined by people who were unaware of the regimental practice.
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YEP! The advent of the industrial revoluion in the 1840s resulted in the manufacture of a lot of new goods.