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by mg at 04:30 PM on June 29, 2001

Have you ever found yourself having to "go commando?" If so, have you ever pulled up your fly a might bit too quickly and caught a little tuft of pubic hair in your zipper? That's a pain you don't soon forget.

Or, have you ever been going down on someone and got a little bit of their pubic hair caught in your braces, and then when you pulled away, the hair got tugged and your partner got totally turned off because the pain was so bad? Actually, that's probably never happened since anyone wearing braces would probably be going down on someone who hadn't even grown any pubes yet.

Well, anyway, in 1889, James H. Bowen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unveiled an invention to prevent nocturnal erections/emissions that took the kind of pain that can only be brought on by pubic-hair-in-the-fly (or braces) to new levels.

Bowen, in the aesthetic design of his device, appears to have drawn inspiration from the restraining mechanisms of horse bridles. A little metal hat was placed over the head of the penis, with small chains on either side dropping down to the end of spring-loaded clips. The clips were then securely clasped to tufts of pubic hair at the base of the penis. When a nocturnal erection began, and the penis enlarged beyond the length of the chains, the pubic hair was pulled, causing the kind of pain guaranteed to wake the naughty dreaming sleeper who was, according to Bowen, "thereby enabled to prevent or check the discharge."

The book I'm stealing all these pictures from says that stylish lines of his invention are visually suggestive of an ornate piece of jewelry, though, I defy you to find one of these in the Bloomingdale's jewelry department.

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umm...excuse me, what is ‘go commando’?

by kd at June 30, 2001 4:25 PM


I think that it means to be butt-assed nekked.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 6:46 PM


No wait, it means no underpants.

Goddammit, why am I worried about this? I need to go outside and get away from my computer and weblogs.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 6:49 PM


Hey if you trim your pubes they won't get caught in your zipper. That and it'll make your dick look bigger.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 6:52 PM


yeah, it must mean no underpants, because but-assed naked there would be no zipper problem.

by kd at June 30, 2001 8:14 PM


but this is still bugging me. i don't understand the etymology -- do commandos not wear undies? i'm so confused.

oh yeah i probably need to get away from my damn computer too.

by kd at June 30, 2001 8:21 PM


I'm not actually sure of the etymology. The first time I heard it was on an episode of Friends. They may have "invented" the term.

Anyone know for sure?

by mg at June 30, 2001 8:25 PM


oh pshaw. i don't think the friends writers do too much inventing. after careful consideration, i have reasoned that i have way too much free time on my hands if i can spend so much time considering such a thing, but my conclusion (& i do have one) is that commandos are probably usually in a big hurry, you know, so they would tend to just hop into their fatigues & whatnot without bothering with boxers or briefs. though that does seem impractical, because it would seem like, in the heat of battle, undergarments might help to prevent chafing.

by kd at June 30, 2001 9:48 PM


Merriam-Websters: " No, they didn't invent the word. The word etymology belongs to me me me me. 1. the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

The credit's mine. Yay!"

by zia at July 5, 2001 1:14 AM


My contribution: I recall an episode of "Quantum Leap" -- wasn't it? -- in which Scott Bakula was some sort of military guy (SEAL?); he wore no underwear and left unbuttoned the top button of his pants. It seems to have been a thing they did (says/implies the show) as a status symbol, or around Asian girls, or whatever. Web research: Jesse Ventura says hew as a SEAL and they don't wear underwear bc it's for the weak. (It goes on to get weird.) That's all the research I'm going to do on that. love!

by someone else at July 31, 2001 5:17 PM


MOST SPECWAR MEMBERS DONT WEAR UNDER GARMENTS. THAT INLUDES, SEAL's EOD,(EXPLOSIVE ORDANCE DISPOSAL UNITS),MEU,(MARINE EXPADATIONARY UNITS), RANGERS AND THOSE GUFF-OFFS IN THE AIR FORCE.

by DAVID at October 26, 2001 1:38 AM


ineed new sex photo

by dana at April 2, 2002 3:40 AM


ummmm yeh i have no idea why im looking at this site, but uhhhh you people have VERY wierd ideas

by uh at August 15, 2002 7:04 PM


i am in the military and noone ever wears underwear. ever. we dont have the zipper problem because our uniforms have button-up flys.

by hooah! at December 25, 2002 1:08 AM


Can I join the military?

by at February 1, 2003 9:53 AM


Can I join the military? Please send photos of yourself and i will respond.

by frenchie at February 1, 2003 9:55 AM


going commando more than likely refers to not the fact of wearing underwear or not (guys are known for freeballing it anyhow) but for the fact that when a guy has to go...he has to go...if it means pulling over on the side of the interstate, hopping out, and whipping it out on the side of the road. It's amazing what Friends has done to intelligence.

by at August 8, 2003 10:51 AM


Hi

by Adan at September 28, 2003 3:14 PM


After a little practice, you learn how not to get pubes in your braces. I have had my braces stuck in a rug, never in a crotch!

by Jeff at June 10, 2004 3:59 PM


To "Go Commando" means going without underwear. I'm not sure of the etymology. I do know that as an Airborne Grunt (Grunt = Infantry) many of us wouldn't wear underpants in the field. This is because we were always laying in mud, crossing streams, low crawling through wet grass, etc. as we were having fun. What this meant was that our pants were constantly getting wet, then drying as we wore them, then getting wet again. If we wore underwear when we did that they would stay wet longer, and would chafe like hell as they dried. Going Commando was also a lot cooler than wearing underwear. So not wearing underwear just made sense in every way.

by Grunt at July 7, 2004 4:09 PM


ok Jeff why would you be suckin comandos anyway

by me snipe u at May 4, 2005 3:36 PM


You are the dumbest people I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bar non

by edwgranger@exp.net at June 3, 2005 10:31 PM


LoL...Pubic Hair getting into zippers?? atleast i odn't have to worry about that:D

by DOESNT get pubic hair caught in zipper at June 21, 2005 2:02 PM


ROCK ON!

by Sara at June 21, 2005 2:04 PM


hi

by Urinal__User at June 21, 2005 2:05 PM


sex machines : erection killer
by mg at 04:30 PM on June 29, 2001Have you ever found yourself having to "go commando?" If so, have you ever pulled up your fly a might bit too quickly and caught a little tuft of pubic hair in your zipper? That's a pain you don't soon forget.

Or, have you ever been going down on someone and got a little bit of their pubic hair caught in your braces, and then when you pulled away, the hair got tugged and your partner got totally turned off because the pain was so bad? Actually, that's probably never happened since anyone wearing braces would probably be going down on someone who hadn't even grown any pubes yet.

Well, anyway, in 1889, James H. Bowen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unveiled an invention to prevent nocturnal erections/emissions that took the kind of pain that can only be brought on by pubic-hair-in-the-fly (or braces) to new levels.


Bowen, in the aesthetic design of his device, appears to have drawn inspiration from the restraining mechanisms of horse bridles. A little metal hat was placed over the head of the penis, with small chains on either side dropping down to the end of spring-loaded clips. The clips were then securely clasped to tufts of pubic hair at the base of the penis. When a nocturnal erection began, and the penis enlarged beyond the length of the chains, the pubic hair was pulled, causing the kind of pain guaranteed to wake the naughty dreaming sleeper who was, according to Bowen, "thereby enabled to prevent or check the discharge."

The book I'm stealing all these pictures from says that stylish lines of his invention are visually suggestive of an ornate piece of jewelry, though, I defy you to find one of these in the Bloomingdale's jewelry department.

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umm...excuse me, what is ‘go commando’?

by kd at June 30, 2001 04:25 PM


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I think that it means to be butt-assed nekked.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:46 PM


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No wait, it means no underpants.

Goddammit, why am I worried about this? I need to go outside and get away from my computer and weblogs.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:49 PM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hey if you trim your pubes they won't get caught in your zipper. That and it'll make your dick look bigger.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:52 PM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

yeah, it must mean no underpants, because but-assed naked there would be no zipper problem.

by kd at June 30, 2001 08:14 PM


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but this is still bugging me. i don't understand the etymology -- do commandos not wear undies? i'm so confused.

oh yeah i probably need to get away from my damn computer too.

by kd at June 30, 2001 08:21 PM


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I'm not actually sure of the etymology. The first time I heard it was on an episode of Friends. They may have "invented" the term.

Anyone know for sure?

by mg at June 30, 2001 08:25 PM


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oh pshaw. i don't think the friends writers do too much inventing. after careful consideration, i have reasoned that i have way too much free time on my hands if i can spend so much time considering such a thing, but my conclusion (& i do have one) is that commandos are probably usually in a big hurry, you know, so they would tend to just hop into their fatigues & whatnot without bothering with boxers or briefs. though that does seem impractical, because it would seem like, in the heat of battle, undergarments might help to prevent chafing.

by kd at June 30, 2001 09:48 PM


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Merriam-Websters: " No, they didn't invent the word. The word etymology belongs to me me me me. 1. the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

The credit's mine. Yay!"

by zia at July 5, 2001 01:14 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My contribution: I recall an episode of "Quantum Leap" -- wasn't it? -- in which Scott Bakula was some sort of military guy (SEAL?); he wore no underwear and left unbuttoned the top button of his pants. It seems to have been a thing they did (says/implies the show) as a status symbol, or around Asian girls, or whatever. Web research: Jesse Ventura says hew as a SEAL and they don't wear underwear bc it's for the weak. (It goes on to get weird.) That's all the research I'm going to do on that. love!

by someone else at July 31, 2001 05:17 PM


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MOST SPECWAR MEMBERS DONT WEAR UNDER GARMENTS. THAT INLUDES, SEAL's EOD,(EXPLOSIVE ORDANCE DISPOSAL UNITS),MEU,(MARINE EXPADATIONARY UNITS), RANGERS AND THOSE GUFF-OFFS IN THE AIR FORCE.

by DAVID at October 26, 2001 01:38 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ineed new sex photo

by dana at April 2, 2002 03:40 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ummmm yeh i have no idea why im looking at this site, but uhhhh you people have VERY wierd ideas


by uh at August 15, 2002 07:04 PM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i am in the military and noone ever wears underwear. ever. we dont have the zipper problem because our uniforms have button-up flys.

by hooah! at December 25, 2002 01:08 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can I join the military?

by at February 1, 2003 09:53 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can I join the military? Please send photos of yourself and i will respond.

by frenchie at February 1, 2003 09:55 AM


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going commando more than likely refers to not the fact of wearing underwear or not (guys are known for freeballing it anyhow) but for the fact that when a guy has to go...he has to go...if it means pulling over on the side of the interstate, hopping out, and whipping it out on the side of the road. It's amazing what Friends has done to intelligence.

by at August 8, 2003 10:51 AM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi

by Adan at September 28, 2003 03:14 PM


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After a little practice, you learn how not to get pubes in your braces. I have had my braces stuck in a rug, never in a crotch!

by Jeff at June 10, 2004 03:59 PM


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To "Go Commando" means going without underwear. I'm not sure of the etymology. I do know that as an Airborne Grunt (Grunt = Infantry) many of us wouldn't wear underpants in the field. This is because we were always laying in mud, crossing streams, low crawling through wet grass, etc. as we were having fun. What this meant was that our pants were constantly getting wet, then drying as we wore them, then getting wet again. If we wore underwear when we did that they would stay wet longer, and would chafe like hell as they dried. Going Commando was also a lot cooler than wearing underwear. So not wearing underwear just made sense in every way.

by Grunt at July 7, 2004 04:09 PM


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ok Jeff why would you be suckin comandos anyway

by me snipe u at May 4, 2005 03:36 PM


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You are the dumbest people I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bar non

by edwgranger@exp.net at June 3, 2005 10:31 PM


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LoL...Pubic Hair getting into zippers?? atleast i odn't have to worry about that:D

by DOESNT get pubic hair caught in zipper at June 21, 2005 02:02 PM


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ROCK ON!

by Sara at June 21, 2005 02:04 PM


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hi

by Urinal__User at June 21, 2005 02:05 PM


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LoL...Pubic Hair getting into zippers?? atleast i odn't have to worry about that:D

by DOESNT get pubic hair caught in zipper at June 21, 2005 02:02 PM


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ROCK ON!

by Sara at June 21, 2005 02:04 PM


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by mg at 04:30 PM on June 29, 2001Have you ever found yourself having to "go commando?" If so, have you ever pulled up your fly a might bit too quickly and caught a little tuft of pubic hair in your zipper? That's a pain you don't soon forget.

Or, have you ever been going down on someone and got a little bit of their pubic hair caught in your braces, and then when you pulled away, the hair got tugged and your partner got totally turned off because the pain was so bad? Actually, that's probably never happened since anyone wearing braces would probably be going down on someone who hadn't even grown any pubes yet.

Well, anyway, in 1889, James H. Bowen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unveiled an invention to prevent nocturnal erections/emissions that took the kind of pain that can only be brought on by pubic-hair-in-the-fly (or braces) to new levels.


Bowen, in the aesthetic design of his device, appears to have drawn inspiration from the restraining mechanisms of horse bridles. A little metal hat was placed over the head of the penis, with small chains on either side dropping down to the end of spring-loaded clips. The clips were then securely clasped to tufts of pubic hair at the base of the penis. When a nocturnal erection began, and the penis enlarged beyond the length of the chains, the pubic hair was pulled, causing the kind of pain guaranteed to wake the naughty dreaming sleeper who was, according to Bowen, "thereby enabled to prevent or check the discharge."

The book I'm stealing all these pictures from says that stylish lines of his invention are visually suggestive of an ornate piece of jewelry, though, I defy you to find one of these in the Bloomingdale's jewelry department.

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umm...excuse me, what is ‘go commando’?

by kd at June 30, 2001 04:25 PM


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I think that it means to be butt-assed nekked.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:46 PM


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No wait, it means no underpants.

Goddammit, why am I worried about this? I need to go outside and get away from my computer and weblogs.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:49 PM


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Hey if you trim your pubes they won't get caught in your zipper. That and it'll make your dick look bigger.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:52 PM


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yeah, it must mean no underpants, because but-assed naked there would be no zipper problem.

by kd at June 30, 2001 08:14 PM


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but this is still bugging me. i don't understand the etymology -- do commandos not wear undies? i'm so confused.

oh yeah i probably need to get away from my damn computer too.

by kd at June 30, 2001 08:21 PM


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I'm not actually sure of the etymology. The first time I heard it was on an episode of Friends. They may have "invented" the term.

Anyone know for sure?

by mg at June 30, 2001 08:25 PM


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going commando more than likely refers to not the fact of wearing underwear or not (guys are known for freeballing it anyhow) but for the fact that when a guy has to go...he has to go...if it means pulling over on the side of the interstate, hopping out, and whipping it out on the side of the road. It's amazing what Friends has done to intelligence.

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To "Go Commando" means going without underwear. I'm not sure of the etymology. I do know that as an Airborne Grunt (Grunt = Infantry) many of us wouldn't wear underpants in the field. This is because we were always laying in mud, crossing streams, low crawling through wet grass, etc. as we were having fun. What this meant was that our pants were constantly getting wet, then drying as we wore them, then getting wet again. If we wore underwear when we did that they would stay wet longer, and would chafe like hell as they dried. Going Commando was also a lot cooler than wearing underwear. So not wearing underwear just made sense in every way.

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by mg at 04:30 PM on June 29, 2001Have you ever found yourself having to "go commando?" If so, have you ever pulled up your fly a might bit too quickly and caught a little tuft of pubic hair in your zipper? That's a pain you don't soon forget.

Or, have you ever been going down on someone and got a little bit of their pubic hair caught in your braces, and then when you pulled away, the hair got tugged and your partner got totally turned off because the pain was so bad? Actually, that's probably never happened since anyone wearing braces would probably be going down on someone who hadn't even grown any pubes yet.

Well, anyway, in 1889, James H. Bowen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unveiled an invention to prevent nocturnal erections/emissions that took the kind of pain that can only be brought on by pubic-hair-in-the-fly (or braces) to new levels.


Bowen, in the aesthetic design of his device, appears to have drawn inspiration from the restraining mechanisms of horse bridles. A little metal hat was placed over the head of the penis, with small chains on either side dropping down to the end of spring-loaded clips. The clips were then securely clasped to tufts of pubic hair at the base of the penis. When a nocturnal erection began, and the penis enlarged beyond the length of the chains, the pubic hair was pulled, causing the kind of pain guaranteed to wake the naughty dreaming sleeper who was, according to Bowen, "thereby enabled to prevent or check the discharge."

The book I'm stealing all these pictures from says that stylish lines of his invention are visually suggestive of an ornate piece of jewelry, though, I defy you to find one of these in the Bloomingdale's jewelry department.

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umm...excuse me, what is ‘go commando’?

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I think that it means to be butt-assed nekked.

by Mr Blank at June 30, 2001 06:46 PM


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No wait, it means no underpants.

Goddammit, why am I worried about this? I need to go outside and get away from my computer and weblogs.

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Hey if you trim your pubes they won't get caught in your zipper. That and it'll make your dick look bigger.

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yeah, it must mean no underpants, because but-assed naked there would be no zipper problem.

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but this is still bugging me. i don't understand the etymology -- do commandos not wear undies? i'm so confused.

oh yeah i probably need to get away from my damn computer too.

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I'm not actually sure of the etymology. The first time I heard it was on an episode of Friends. They may have "invented" the term.

Anyone know for sure?

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oh pshaw. i don't think the friends writers do too much inventing. after careful consideration, i have reasoned that i have way too much free time on my hands if i can spend so much time considering such a thing, but my conclusion (& i do have one) is that commandos are probably usually in a big hurry, you know, so they would tend to just hop into their fatigues & whatnot without bothering with boxers or briefs. though that does seem impractical, because it would seem like, in the heat of battle, undergarments might help to prevent chafing.

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Merriam-Websters: " No, they didn't invent the word. The word etymology belongs to me me me me. 1. the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

The credit's mine. Yay!"

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My contribution: I recall an episode of "Quantum Leap" -- wasn't it? -- in which Scott Bakula was some sort of military guy (SEAL?); he wore no underwear and left unbuttoned the top button of his pants. It seems to have been a thing they did (says/implies the show) as a status symbol, or around Asian girls, or whatever. Web research: Jesse Ventura says hew as a SEAL and they don't wear underwear bc it's for the weak. (It goes on to get weird.) That's all the research I'm going to do on that. love!

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MOST SPECWAR MEMBERS DONT WEAR UNDER GARMENTS. THAT INLUDES, SEAL's EOD,(EXPLOSIVE ORDANCE DISPOSAL UNITS),MEU,(MARINE EXPADATIONARY UNITS), RANGERS AND THOSE GUFF-OFFS IN THE AIR FORCE.

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i am in the military and noone ever wears underwear. ever. we dont have the zipper problem because our uniforms have button-up flys.

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Can I join the military?

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going commando more than likely refers to not the fact of wearing underwear or not (guys are known for freeballing it anyhow) but for the fact that when a guy has to go...he has to go...if it means pulling over on the side of the interstate, hopping out, and whipping it out on the side of the road. It's amazing what Friends has done to intelligence.

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After a little practice, you learn how not to get pubes in your braces. I have had my braces stuck in a rug, never in a crotch!

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To "Go Commando" means going without underwear. I'm not sure of the etymology. I do know that as an Airborne Grunt (Grunt = Infantry) many of us wouldn't wear underpants in the field. This is because we were always laying in mud, crossing streams, low crawling through wet grass, etc. as we were having fun. What this meant was that our pants were constantly getting wet, then drying as we wore them, then getting wet again. If we wore underwear when we did that they would stay wet longer, and would chafe like hell as they dried. Going Commando was also a lot cooler than wearing underwear. So not wearing underwear just made sense in every way.

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ok Jeff why would you be suckin comandos anyway

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by loliPOP_girl at June 21, 2005 2:10 PM


My Wife Laughs When I get some Pubic Hair caught In My Zipper, one time I gto some caught in it and it wouldn't "unzip" so I had to shave all of my pubhair off and the pull my blue jeans off....what a relief.. My wife said if I ever get hair in my jeans again she'll kick my in the nuts! lol...i HOPE i dont but if i do get some hair in my zipper again i WONT tell LOL...

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I LOVE GETTING PUBIC HAIR STUCK IN MY ZIPPER!!!!!!! IT'S AWESOME!

by i love gettin pubic hair in my zipper at June 21, 2005 2:22 PM


Going Commando.. Originated in the military. I was an Officer in Army Special Forces for 22 yrs. Commandoes, Spec Operators, SEALS, Snake Eaters, Rangers, Sneaky Pete's . In the field, we wouldn't wear underwear bottoms, because when you get wet, from sweating or rain, rivers, mud etc. the underwear drys at a different rate of speed than the outer BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) which is either 100% cotton or cotton/nylon blend. Either way, you end up with chaffing and jock itch, between your legs, so to avoid that you just don't wear underwear, jockeys or briefs are the worst, too tight and confining, plus the elastic leg bands chafe the skin. boxers if you have to wear something, use cotton or the new performance wcking fabrics, as they're loose and allow for air circulation-let's the boys breathe and move around. Have you heard the phrase " Check Your Package" it means to check that your balls are still there! -Jammer Six-Out-X

by Paladin at June 24, 2005 4:13 AM


By the way, you won't get your pubic hair caught in the pant zipper on real BDU combat trousers, they use a button fly instead of zippers.. no hair pulling, no zipper to break, less noise in the field when buttoning up and buttons are easily sewn back on. Jammer-Six- Out-X

by Paladin at June 24, 2005 4:18 AM


WTF?

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