"The Whole Six Yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/10/2012 04:50 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>(And from this I conclude that it is a modern name for a sari that plays
>off "whole nine yards", and is almost certainly unrelated to the early
>"whole six yards".  But, as Dennis Miller says, I could be wrong.)

Be more optimistic, and add, as Monk does, "But I'm not".

Joel

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