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[jbsegal]

it just struck me.... Isn't 'assless chaps' redundant?

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[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

depends: are you talking about a brittish fellow who has lost his donkey, or are you talking about a leather garment used for motorcycle and horse riding?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps a fairly young lad with no butt to speak of?

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

And here I was trying to be polite....

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

That way only leads to madness.

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

well, since I'm already mad, there's no harm in being polite, now is there?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I suppose not, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a flaw to your logic somewhere.

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

Well, I am mad, I do not claim logic.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was being cheeky, but that wouldn't be assless.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Sure sounds like it. Not a turn of phrase I've seen in any motorcycle gear catalogs, nor heard before. It does look like it's in fairly common use, though:

Google +"assless chaps"
46,900 hits

Google +"motorcycle gear" +"assless chaps"
31 hits

[rmd.livejournal.com]

huh.

i thought the first place i heard the term was in the movie "pump up the volume", but there's no reference to assless chaps in the "quotes" page for the movie at the imdb.

perhaps i'm misremembering and conflating it with slater's character blathering on about cockrings and eventually fessing up that he's not quite sure what's up with cockrings.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

But the phrase "Chaps my ass" is certainly descriptive of my life.

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

It *is* redundant, but it's so much more fun to say it that way!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

i've always thought so ... :)

[xlii.livejournal.com]

I think it's much more fun to say assless than to say chaps. Hence the phrase. Kimberly disagrees with me on this, as noted above.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Today, yes, it's entirely redundant, but historically, some chaps may have had asses in them to keep clothes clean - even sadles can stain, especially in inclement weather.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Do you have any cites for this?

[tb]

I thought it was supposed to be "assless penguin chaps."

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I don't think that penguin legs are long enough to make chaps practical...

[foms.livejournal.com]

Like if they are being displayed on one of those front-only mannequins (hollow in the back)? That kind of assless? If a person is wearing them, then I think that there is an ass present.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Yes. If they had an ass, they would be pants. QED.

[ceo]

What I want to know is what the point of assless chaps is. If I fall off a motorcycle, I want to be protected everywhere, not everywhere except my ass.

OK, I can certainly see the point if one wears them with nothing underneath (and doesn't ride a motorcycle). But maybe that's why adding motorcycle to the search string cuts the hits down by three orders of magnitude. :-)

Chaps

[lionessprite.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for the motorcycle riding, but word at the stable had always been there are more protective of leg and hip. And once you get them worn in, they help keep your leg in proper position (assuming this was possible from the start). Theoretically, they give you that much more feeling through your seat. There is also the ease of putting em on and removal.

Never wore them myself - don't know I've ever seen a closed backdoor pair of chaps. Could be some.

There, $0.02