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I must admit being extremely slow about this Rich, but I have finally realised the meaning of Redpants.
Whilst watching Graucho Marx (You Bet Your Life) talking to Thomas Cronin, the meaning dawned on me.
For anyone interested, Thomas Cronin was a butler at the London American Embassy, then to Princess Margaret.
A charming gentleman, but look him up on the internet and he might have been rather more than a butler during the 'Cold War' period.
If true, never caught though it appears.
Some AMOC members like wearing red trousers.
In America trousers are called pants.
In the UK, pants are worn under trousers.
What are worn under pants in the USA, I do not know.
There you are, at last I've got it.
Hahahaha oddly enough I had no idea about the red trousers thing until it came up here on PH some time ago, a while after I'd already started using the name so there was no going back.
Long story short, I've had a lot of self esteem issues throughout my life. A good friend of mine that I was visiting in Boston brought it up, basically saying that he noticed how much more open and fun I was around people that I know, compared to being extremely quiet and reserved around new people. We were out shopping, and he saw a pair of red pants in a shop window and told me I needed to get them, and then gave me the best peacock speech I've ever heard in my life. So I bought the pants. I was living outside of Washington DC at the time, and everyone in that area wears the same suit (blue or grey) to work, and blue jeans outside of work. I showed up wearing red pants to a car event, so people referred to me as the guy in the red pants. When the next gathering came around, people asked if I was going to wear them, and eventually it became my de facto trouser for car events.
When I was starting up my shop, I didn't want to go the same route most shops go with naming conventions, and after some thought I decided to go silly with it because, meh, I couldn't care less, it was something I was doing to share a passion, not to compete with any other shop. I was known for my red pants, so Redpants it was. It works out well and I get a lot of positive comments on it. Plus it's easy to remember, and easier to pronounce than my last name. A lot of people just refer to me a Redpants or Rich/Richard Redpants.
And of course, we wear underpants under our pants
Long story short, I've had a lot of self esteem issues throughout my life. A good friend of mine that I was visiting in Boston brought it up, basically saying that he noticed how much more open and fun I was around people that I know, compared to being extremely quiet and reserved around new people. We were out shopping, and he saw a pair of red pants in a shop window and told me I needed to get them, and then gave me the best peacock speech I've ever heard in my life. So I bought the pants. I was living outside of Washington DC at the time, and everyone in that area wears the same suit (blue or grey) to work, and blue jeans outside of work. I showed up wearing red pants to a car event, so people referred to me as the guy in the red pants. When the next gathering came around, people asked if I was going to wear them, and eventually it became my de facto trouser for car events.
When I was starting up my shop, I didn't want to go the same route most shops go with naming conventions, and after some thought I decided to go silly with it because, meh, I couldn't care less, it was something I was doing to share a passion, not to compete with any other shop. I was known for my red pants, so Redpants it was. It works out well and I get a lot of positive comments on it. Plus it's easy to remember, and easier to pronounce than my last name. A lot of people just refer to me a Redpants or Rich/Richard Redpants.
And of course, we wear underpants under our pants
Edited by telum01 on Thursday 19th July 18:04
telum01 said:
Hahahaha oddly enough I had no idea about the red trousers thing until it came up here on PH some time ago, a while after I'd already started using the name so there was no going back.
Long story short, I've had a lot of self esteem issues throughout my life. A good friend of mine that I was visiting in Boston brought it up, basically saying that he noticed how much more open and fun I was around people that I know, compared to being extremely quiet and reserved around new people. We were out shopping, and he saw a pair of red pants in a shop window and told me I needed to get them, and then gave me the best peacock speech I've ever heard in my life. So I bought the pants. I was living outside of Washington DC at the time, and everyone in that area wears the same suit (blue or grey) to work, and blue jeans outside of work. I showed up wearing red pants to a car event, so people referred to me as the guy in the red pants. When the next gathering came around, people asked if I was going to wear them, and eventually it became my de facto trouser for car events.
When I was starting up my shop, I didn't want to go the same route most shops go with naming conventions, and after some thought I decided to go silly with it because, meh, I couldn't care less, it was something I was doing to share a passion, not to compete with any other shop. I was known for my red pants, so Redpants it was. It works out well and I get a lot of positive comments on it. Plus it's easy to remember, and easier to pronounce than my last name. A lot of people just refer to me a Redpants or Rich/Richard Redpants.
And of course, we wear underpants under our pants
Nice story Rich, quite comical how it's worked out with AM's and red trousers ( Long story short, I've had a lot of self esteem issues throughout my life. A good friend of mine that I was visiting in Boston brought it up, basically saying that he noticed how much more open and fun I was around people that I know, compared to being extremely quiet and reserved around new people. We were out shopping, and he saw a pair of red pants in a shop window and told me I needed to get them, and then gave me the best peacock speech I've ever heard in my life. So I bought the pants. I was living outside of Washington DC at the time, and everyone in that area wears the same suit (blue or grey) to work, and blue jeans outside of work. I showed up wearing red pants to a car event, so people referred to me as the guy in the red pants. When the next gathering came around, people asked if I was going to wear them, and eventually it became my de facto trouser for car events.
When I was starting up my shop, I didn't want to go the same route most shops go with naming conventions, and after some thought I decided to go silly with it because, meh, I couldn't care less, it was something I was doing to share a passion, not to compete with any other shop. I was known for my red pants, so Redpants it was. It works out well and I get a lot of positive comments on it. Plus it's easy to remember, and easier to pronounce than my last name. A lot of people just refer to me a Redpants or Rich/Richard Redpants.
And of course, we wear underpants under our pants
Edited by telum01 on Thursday 19th July 18:04
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