Chandler:
- Hey, Pheebs, can I have the milk?
Phoebe:
- I'm almost done with it. Keep your panties on.
And here is another joke that seems to be having a cultural reference. What is the joke in Phoebie's saying: "Keep your panties on."?
Chandler:
- Hey, Pheebs, can I have the milk?
Phoebe:
- I'm almost done with it. Keep your panties on.
And here is another joke that seems to be having a cultural reference. What is the joke in Phoebie's saying: "Keep your panties on."?
It seems to me that this sentense has meaning: "to keep one's composure"
ReplyDeletehttp://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/keep-(one's)-panties-on
Ok, and here is where the expression takes its roots:
DeleteKeep your pants on
Meaning: Calm down, be patient.
Example: I will be off the telephone in a minute, so keep your pants on.
Origin: Appears to suggest that one should calm down because romance is not imminent. This phrase is actually a derivation of "keep your shirt on". It is an interesting example of how phrases can adapt to obscure the origin.
Keep your shirt on
Meaning: Calm down, be patient.
Example: Just keep your shirt on, dinner is almost ready.
Origin: Before modern manufacturing techniques, shirts, and all clothes for that matter, required a lot of labor to make. They were more expensive than they are today. Someone thinking of starting a fight might take off his shirt to prevent damage. Telling someone to "keep his shirt on" was equivalent to telling him "I don't want to fight".
This phrase has been twisted into the equivalent "Keep your pants on".
Alternative: In addition to fights, a man would often remove his shirt in preparation for a laborious task.
hmmm, sounds to me like you told that person that you don't want to fight them and that you would get it done as quickly as you could to keep them happy.
Taken from:
http://www.answerology.com/index.aspx/question/2916080_Where-does-the-expression-keep-your-pants-on-come-from.html
it's got nothing at all to do with cultural stuff.. if you paid attention to the whole episode you would've seen that chandler got left just wearing a womans panties at the restaurant. that's why it's funny
DeleteThank you, Anniken!
DeleteAnniken missed the point here, and tka, you got it. It's a common expression as you listed. She substituted another article of clothing that was pertinent to the situation, which is why it was funny.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Triene, for putting it into more compressed paragraph for me! The feeling when you get the joke puzzle solved is very rewarding)
Deletewhat? anniken got it absolutely right. chandler left with only a womans panties on. of course it's an expression, but the reason it's SO funny is because of the "chandler's wearing panties"-thing. watch the whole episode and you easily get it.
ReplyDeleteUknown, the joke is of course because Chandler wore girl's panties earlier in the episode. But if that wouldn't be for the expression that was already inbeded in the culture the "keep your penties on" joke wouldn't be half as funny
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