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It's boggled a lot of minds beyond ours. ;^)))) 
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- "The whole nine yards."
- Just saw a special....
- Interesting... as the other explanations don't seem to work...
- Snopes' pooh-poohs
- I've always thought is was a sailing reference
- The use of that reference just wasn't contemporaneous?
- It sounds like the term didn't come into popular use until after the 1950s
- It's boggled a lot of minds beyond ours. ;^))))
- It's boggled a lot of minds beyond ours. ;^))))
- It sounds like the term didn't come into popular use until after the 1950s
- Don't think so..
- The use of that reference just wasn't contemporaneous?
- Just saw a special....
