Subject: Re: Panting and Sexual Orientation
From: mlw@taffy.bellcore.com (Mary Lu Wason)
Date: 1991-03-01, 10:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons,alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: mlw@elvislu.soac.bellcore.com

In article <49681@apple.Apple.COM>, jeremy@Apple.COM (jeremy j. b.
nguyen) writes:
|> jym@berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
|> >[excerpted:]
|> >_Twin_Peaks_
|> >~~~~~~~~~~~~
|> >    Denise:  I put my panties on one leg at a time, if you
|> >             know what I mean.
|> 
|> >_The_Simpsons_
|> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|> >    Skinner:  >Heh< >heh< >heh<.  Yes, these pants come off at
|> >              night, just like everybody else's.
|> 
|> > __ What does these statements mean?
|> 
|> I think that, in "normal" circumstances, the expression "putting
one's
|> pants on one leg at a time" means something like "I'm just a regular
guy."
|> However, (stating the obvious) there's a twist in each of the
examples
|> you mentioned, which I'm sure you can figure out.  
|> 
|> -jeremy jbn
|> 

When people discuss celebrities, a common expression is
"He puts his pants on just like everyone else" which
means "he's a person too". But of course the expression
got a little twisted in the Simpson world.
Mary Lu