you wrote:
About 3 or 4 days ago the Boston Globe online region section posted an AP
report about a dead man's body found in a secluded area -- his body "placed"
there -- in lower Manhattan's eastside if I recall correctly. When the body
was brought into the morgue radioactivity
Sorry for the off topic nature of my need here, but I just
engauged in a wager of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS as to where the
phrase, "the whole nine years" hales from.
I have been searching on-line for an hour now, with no results:(
Can any one help me here?
And, in advance, thanks A LOT, i.e., I AM
Are you sure you're not thinking of the term 'the whole nine yards'? Which I believe
is a US football reference?
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Well - try this - always thought it meant that if you believed that, you
would believe anything - the whole nine yards..
Here goes:
Article
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
But nine yards of what?
There are some queries that we answerers of questions on the story of
the English language get asked
WOW!!!
THANKS! However, the below has about every possible etymology
EXCEPT the one I am betting on, i.e., the lenght of an ammo belt
used in the wing machine guns of American and English WWII
fighter planes:(
None the less, GREAT $H!T!
I thanks you, sincerely.
[Btw, could you spot me $100
Dear Mike,
To the best of my knowledge, that phrase came from WWII referring to the
length of bullets used for an automatic weapon. I can't recall where I heard
that but I am about positive that my recollection is correct.
Hope this helps.
Love, Kathy
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Well Mike, if I had a $100 I would bet it on the other guy; however, if
you cannot prove it absolutely, neither can he. Good Luck.
A. Saba
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THANKS! However, the below has about every possible etymology
EXCEPT the one I am betting on, i.e., the lenght of an ammo belt
used in the wing machine guns of American and English WWII
fighter planes:(
You mean, as in the paragraph:
Yet another explanation is that it was invented by
At 06:02 08/02/2000 -0400, Aleisha Saba wrote:
Well - try this - always thought it meant that if you believed that, you
would believe anything - the whole nine yards..
Here goes:
Aleisha Saba,
What an outstanding response! That particular phrase has been in my family
for a long time and
the .50 cal ammo belts on a fighter in wwII were 27 feet long, and one
minute of continuous firing, so "i gave him the whole nine yards
means, i emptied my guns into him.
iggy
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From Alternet, notice no mention of CIA/Gov't involvement, and I believe alternet would be an organization more likely than mainstream to mention this. Peter.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9542
Thousands Protest "Failed Drug War" April Pederson, SpeakOut.comAugust 1, 2000
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you wrote:
About 3 or 4 days ago the Boston Globe online region section posted an AP
report about a dead man's body found in a secluded area
When the body
was brought into the morgue radioactivity detector alarms sounded.
The
i'll bet most of them were not protesting the failure to eradicate things like
marijuana...but of the fact that we are having HARMFUL drugs shoved down our throats
instead...
it's all about the freedom to think as you wish...
too bad we can't seem to stop cramming our own personal codes down
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Childhood Abuse and Adult Stress
Women who were physically or
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By John W. Whitehead
Strangers entered two different elementary schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma on two
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2 August 2000
Back to screen version
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Personally, I have one, but rarely use it,
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Recently at my place of employment another
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Published on Tuesday, August 1, 2000 in the Boston Globe
The Cruelest Month Of All
by James Carroll
I have written columns each year to commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and
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What a great definition, Oscar. Hope I can quote it.
Jenny Decker
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if the radioactivity was confined to the interior of the dead man's body
then no alarms would have sounded...
That's absurd. If radiation didn't penetrate flesh, then it wouldn't be a
problem, now would it?
Speaking of radiometers, check out:
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Silence of the pro-lifers
Nobody's talking about abortion, but the National Right to Life Committee
says Bush-appointed judges will strike down Roe vs. Wade.
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August 02, 2000 | PHILADELPHIA -- There are few issues in American politics
as divisive as
Ex-Clinton official slams Bush and Cheney war records
Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown asks why "neither one went
to Vietnam, when they were clearly of Vietnam age."
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I'm reminded of a Barry Switzer quote.
Do you know why everyone (but me) hates football coach Barry Switzer?
He tends to be a little cocky sometimes.
Yet, as a rule, he backed up his cocky talk.
Back in the glory days of Oklahoma University football, Barry
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With only a half year left in his reign, his legacy starving for
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Apparently overcome by the urge to recapture the
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What Happened to TWA 800?
July 20, 2000
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A day after the downing of TWA 800 four years ago this week, an
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