Misunder-pant-ing

I learned that one must be very careful in how you reference your pants* in a conversation with those of low/misinformed intellect when I had to make the following correction:

CHINOS are trousers made of chino cloth and NOT Chinese or Hispanic children (at least in MY experiences...I don't claim to be a very Wordly sort...but I DO know my pants, thank you very much).

Glad to have been involved in THAT conversation and correction.

Ahem.

T
*In fact, it might not be a bad idea to NOT talk about pants at all; lump it in with abortion, politics, and religion as things to not bring up in your daily conversations.