pics of my GTI

[steiner_ca at hotmail.com (Craig Steiner)]

It was a WWII term.  Ammo belts for fighter aircraft were 9 yards long.  
Giving an enemy aircraft the whole nine yards meant you shot everything you 
had at him.

Craig Steiner
LT       USN
Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 42
'88 Alpine White 16V

>From: Tonee Northam <pb3vr6@yahoo.com>
>To: Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com>, fahrvegnugen@cox.net,  
>smithma7@gmail.com
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: RE: pics of my GTI
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:40:56 -0800 (PST)
>
>Or a movie!
>
>Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com> wrote:The whole nine yards is an 
>old sailor term. Each sail was termed a yard.
>Therefore raising all the sails (9 of them) became the "Whole Nine Yards".
>
>9 yards of ammo would be a strip of cloth wrapped ammo 27 feet long.
>
>
>
>Julie Macfarlane
>1981 MKI 2L 16v w 2Y
>Amsterdam NY
>
>
>
>
> >From: David Utley
> >Reply-To: fahrvegnugen@cox.net
> >To: Mike Smith
> >CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: Re: RE: pics of my GTI
> >Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:15:33 -0500
> >
> >Good assesment, I would buy it... I like to know where words evolved 
>from,
> >9 time out of 10 it is stranger than fiction... Example... 'The Whole
> >Nine'... IIRC, this came from WWII. Whomever was loading the machine gun
> >(which ever type it was), would ask the shooter if they wanted the 'whole
> >nine yards' of rounds. This was apparently an issue because the longer 
>the
> >ammunition, the higher likleyhood of jamming... If someone has a better
> >memory than mine, please feel free to correct me...
> >
> >Cheers,
> > David
> > >
> > > From: Mike Smith
> > > Date: 2004/11/08 Mon PM 04:02:29 EST
> > > To: fahrvegnugen@cox.net
> > > CC: marc_scirocco , scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > Subject: Re: RE: pics of my GTI
> > >
> > > props... <---- Where the shit did that word come from, anyways?
> > > >
> > > > David
> > >
> > > Dictionary.com:
> > >
> > > props
> > >
> > > n : proper respect; "I have to give my props to the governor for the
> > > way he handled the problem"
> > >
> > > Off the top of my head, I'd have to say that it came from the fact
> > > that a prop is a support. And then slang made it the way it is. In
> > > the above example, if you switch props for support, it still works
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > Amateur wordsmith,
> > > --
> > > Mike
> > > '86 red 16v (Red 5)
> > >
> >
> >
> >---Chrome don't get you home.---
> >
> >
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