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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!!TOAL
  3. Message-ID: <9301021606.AA11362@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:06:41 GMT
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Graham Toal
  8.               <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
  9. Subject:      Re: The Whole Nine Yards
  10. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  13.         The saying is from the days of delivering coal to homes for fuel.
  14.         A coal truck would hold a maximum of nine cubic yards of coal
  15.  
  16. Since you're so *plonk*ingly definitive on this, perhaps you'd
  17. like to give us a citation on the earliest occurance of this
  18. in print?
  19.  
  20. It's no coincidence that it's Alt *folklore* Urban that has these
  21. derivations in its FAQ file...
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