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March 19th 04, 02:49 AM
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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 
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