commando style

19 Jul 2005

When did 'commando style' come to mean going out knickerless...and why? I only figured it out today when someone messaged me about going 'commando style' to the shops, and now I understand a comment in last weeks free manchester metro from some starlet about having to have a brazilian if she was going out commando....
ps - and what about the mcr streaker who has also been in the free paper? Has she had a brazilian - the papers only show her bum view. Any SH contributors snapped her on their mobiles?

19 Jul 2005

apparently the phrase going commando is attributed to
joey in "friends"

19 Jul 2005

I heard it way before friends came out. My guess would be that in the wars, commandos would be out in the field for weeks at an end and they could not carry that amount of gear with them and so would wear none. This is only a guess mind so what does everyone else think?

19 Jul 2005

covers that one

19 Jul 2005

In a 1996 episode of the television show Friends, Joey and Rachel use the term "going commando" ( In the producers commentary of the episode, they mention the fact that the phrase "going commando" entered the Oxford English Dictionary because of that particular episode.

19 Jul 2005

Quote by shead
apparently the phrase going commando is attributed to
joey in "friends"

I seriously doubt that.
Look it says;

Slate's Daniel Engber dates the modern usage to 1974 college campuses, where it was perhaps an outgrowth of the Vietnam War . The origins of the phrase are uncertain, with some speculating that it may refer to being "out in the open" or "ready for action." According to Engber many soldiers do go without underwear to "increase ventilation and reduce moisture." The earliest known use of the term in print is January 22, 1985 with Jim Spencer writing in the Chicago Tribune: "Furthermore, colored briefs are 'sleazy' and going without underwear ('going commando', as they say on campus) is simply gross."

19 Jul 2005

wow - what rapid and informative replies. thanks everyone. Now what about the Tibb St streaker for those who are mancunians!

19 Jul 2005

Quote by marmalaid
apparently the phrase going commando is attributed to
joey in "friends"

I seriously doubt that.
Look it says;

Slate's Daniel Engber dates the modern usage to 1974 college campuses, where it was perhaps an outgrowth of the Vietnam War . The origins of the phrase are uncertain, with some speculating that it may refer to being "out in the open" or "ready for action." According to Engber many soldiers do go without underwear to "increase ventilation and reduce moisture." The earliest known use of the term in print is January 22, 1985 with Jim Spencer writing in the Chicago Tribune: "Furthermore, colored briefs are 'sleazy' and going without underwear ('going commando', as they say on campus) is simply gross."

It only became a recognised phrase when it was added after a particular episode however you are right with the origins

19 Jul 2005

I txted a mate of mine that is a cpl in the marines about this and he says that when he joined the marines they never wore underwear because it is one more thing to wash!!!!!