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Evil Genius
Join Date: May 2006
Location: On top of my BBQ
Posts: 5,649
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thank you for helping me shoot my load for the night......
Trivia.........for extra effort......."giving it the whole nine yards"
So I've been led to believe, the term "Giving it the whole nine yards" as a phrase, was from a wing mounted machine gun in the P-51, Corsair, or P-38 era WWII planes, that had 27 feet of ammo belts. They would shoot it all on target, and you didn't want to come back to base with any ammo left over, hence, "gave it the whole nine yards".
I shot my load..........heck we didn't have laser guided sharks back in those days.
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