[Info-vax] The nice part of about working on OpenVMS is that you can wear whatever color undies you want

[Jay E. Morris]

On 2/8/2011 7:52 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article<iiq4qe$dl4$1 at news.eternal-september.org>,
> 	"Jay E. Morris"<morrisj at epsilon3.com>  writes:
>> On 1/18/2011 12:31 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I usually go commando so I guess I already meet the flesh-colored
>>>>> requirement
>>>>
>>>> English is my first language and I use it a lot but I have never heard
>>>> this expression.  Please enlighten.
>>>
>>> One of the alst NBC TV programmes that was succesfull was a series
>>> called "friends". In it, one of the characters started the expression
>>> "going commando" and it seems to have gone mainstream. It means you wear
>>> no underwear under your pants.
>>
>> Much earlier than that, at least Viet Nam war. I was going commando in
>> the swamps of Ft. Stewart GA in very early  80s.
>
> Late 60's, early 70's at Ft. Benning!!!  Of course, we didn't have a
> cool term for it.  :-)
>
> bill
>

I hit Benning in 1977 for IOBC.  Didn't do the commando thing until I 
hit Ft. Swampy.  Learned of it, of course, from one of my NCOs.