[Mid] "the whole 9 yards"

>>That's a mighty long kilt! <huge grin>
(snip)
>Where do you think the term "the whole 9 yards" came from? (Hint: it
>isn't
>American "football".)
>
>Eoin

Well, since you asked: it doesn't come from football OR kilts, but rather
from the military. When fighter planes were loading their belts of machine
gun ammo, the belts were 27 feet long fully loaded. If the entire belt was
fired at the objective, you gave it "the whole nine yards".

                                        Jen, who has too many military
friends and relatives *not* to know that...

From: Jen <jenster@gate.net>
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Received on Wed Jan 14 19:50:34 1998