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2014-06-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 The "kind of trousers that only had two legs" is the source of the English expression "a pair of pants" applied to what is actually a single garment. Modern Chinese doesn't use this.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-07 00:46|| 2014-06-07 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 How do you get these pants so clean and fresh?

"Ancient Chinese secret"

Posted by Airandee 2014-06-07 07:21|| 2014-06-07 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 These would technically be Tocharian pants, not Chinese.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-07 08:44|| 2014-06-07 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm going to tell my wife about this. She thinks she needs a new wardrobe every season. To think, I she might get another 3,299 years out of them. Second thoughts, that's an awful long time..

Posted by Incredulous 2014-06-07 11:00|| 2014-06-07 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Why does this story remind me of this commercial?

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-07 12:38|| 2014-06-07 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 So, you can become a part of history if you lose your claim ticket?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-07 19:52|| 2014-06-07 19:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Uncle Phester wins the thread! :-D

Incredulous dear, feel free to commiserate with Mr. Wife, who regularly complains that I don't own enough clothes.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-07 20:36|| 2014-06-07 20:36|| Front Page Top

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