On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:35:51 GMT, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:



kage wrote:

"the whole nine yards"
Jay. Do you know where that aviation saying came from?

Supposedly the ammo belt for a WWI machine gun was this long. So if you fired
at a target until you ran out of ammo, you gave it the whole nine yards.

Well...that's *one* explanation. There's a whole lot more....

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/nineyards.htm

Ron Wanttaja