question, Fred Re: [ADS-L] "What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Stephen Goranson wrote:

> May I ask, are you saying that you consider to be silliness my proposal that
> when Admiral Land in 1942 spoke "for the whole nine yards," he provided the
> literal basis for the metaphorical usage? I would be interested in feedback
> from others also.

Yes, I find this to be arguably even less plausible than the Montagnards.

Fred Shapiro


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