[Ads-l] Whole Nine Yards (1855)

[Jonathan Lighter]

The cited 1855 joke about a shirt was widely disseminated. Newspapers.com
has it from 17 North American newspapers in 1855.

JL

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:21 AM Mullins, Bill <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil>
wrote:

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> If someone wants to ask him directly, CAPT Stratton has a web page here:
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> http://www.geocities.com/talesofseasia/
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> and his email address is on this page:
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> http://us.geocities.yahoo.com/gb/view?member=talesofseasia  (4th entry)
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> > The "Richard A. Stratton" in question was a Navy pilot who
> > was shot down in January of 1967.
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> > Back to a guy who picked it up either as a flyer in Viet Nam
> > before he was captured, or perhaps just in the course of
> > being in the military when released as a POW.
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> > Sam Clements
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