"robert bowman" wrote in message
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Lib Loo wrote:

Not if by war one means
doing the obvious and checking a highly suspicious air traveler's
underwear to see if explosives have been sewn in.

My mother was well ahead of her time. She always insisted I wear nice
clean
underwear when traveling in case anything happened -- like being stripped
searched be the TSA.

I wonder if hash marks show up on the scan..........

Not to hijack the thread, but two times I've had my clothes cut off in ER's,
and both times, I had on new underwear.

If yer ever in the ER, and they start cutting off your clothes, it's usually
a bad sign.