Dick Jonas on "the whole nine yards"

[Dave Wilton]

>Barry —
>Seems to me it had something to do  with the length of the air
>refueling boom out the back of a KC-135  tanker. I don't know where I
>heard that. It's the only piece of info I  ever came across in regard to
>the expression. Good luck with your  quest.

Except that the boom on a KC-135 tanker is 48 feet long, or 16 yards, not nine.

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