Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site convexs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Anyone know where this saying came f Message-ID: <7700002@convexs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 13:15:00 EST Article-I.D.: convexs.7700002 Posted: Thu Feb 7 13:15:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 06:43:46 EST References: <39@gitpyr.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:gitpyr:-3900:convexs:7700002:000:688 Nf-From: convexs!ayers Feb 7 12:15:00 1985 /* ---------- "Anyone know where this saying came f" ---------- */ How about the saying "the whole nine yards"? Does anyone know what it was derived from? I mean, shouldn't that be 10 yards? -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy Who me? I'm not even a REAL modo, I'm only a quasi-modo. /* End of text from convexs:net.misc */ You need to go WAY back: a "winding sheet" was nine yards long (used to wrap corpses in)... blues, II (the opinions expressed here are those of my great-uncle Julius...)