World Wide Pants Less

Why can't you ride the subway without pants?
That's the question asked for the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride on Sunday, 10 January. Begun by Improv Everywhere in New York, this year it was also held in various parts of the United States and the world, with participants in a reported 16 countries. A few thousand people took off their pants in New York, and others dropped them in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and, of course, San Francisco. Other places included Lisbon, Portugal, and Buenos Aires.
But it's actually related to an earlier tradition called No Pants Day celebrated by The Knighthood of BUH at the University of Texas, Austin, since 1997. And some claim it began even earlier, around 1985 or 1986. It's often celebrated on the first Friday in May.
In both No Pants Day and No Pants Subway Ride, particpants may act like nothing unusual's going on. If questioned, act as if they forgot to wear their pants, but that's no big deal. Other celebrants make a point of being pantsless, even wearing T-shirts celebrating wearing no pants. How you celebrate is up to you (but for most areas, you're safer if your nether regions are covered by underwear. "Pants" in the United Kingdom means underwear, but in America it means trousers).
See Links:
Check out the No Pants Day site at http://www.nopantsday.com/wp/
Read a report at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34799796/?GT1=43001
Watch the ZeitGeist version at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26852192/vp/34805765#34805765
The photo above is from http://improveverywhere.com/images/nopants7_17.jpg. No threat to its copyright is intended.

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