another euphemism

[Jim Parish]

Wilson Gray wrote:
> I heard "go comando" used ca.1992 by a woman on some after-11:00p.m.
> cable-TV dating show in conjunction with the phrase, "pitch a tent."
> She spoke to the effect that that she preferred men who _went
> commando_ because she liked knowing it when she had caused a man to
> _pitch a tent_.
>
> I didn't find anything datable WRT the latter phrase - Google only
> quotes the undated UD. <snip>

For what it's worth, I remember my mother using it, probably around 1970. (The incident
I'm thinking of can't be earlier than that, and can't be later than 1975, when I left home.)

Jim Parish

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