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	Wordwizard Clubhouse - the whole nine yards
		WHOLE NINE YARDS: I have to say straight away this is one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern etymology, for which many seek the truth and almost as many find explanations, but hardly anyone has a clue.
		Other problems are that big square-rigged sailing ships commonly had more than nine yards and that the expression ought in that case to be ‘all nine yards’ rather than ‘the whole nine yards’ (the same objection could be made about other suggestions that involve numbers rather than areas or volumes).
		I had an email from a website some years ago whose title was "whole nine years" and he said the earliest citation was in 1823 about a naval battle where the whole nine yards was two cannon ball fastened with nine yards of chain to cut down the enemy's shrouds.
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6476 (1377 words)

	Tennessee Walking horse - THE WHOLE NINE YARDS # home page by Walkers West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When The Whole Nine Yards and Bill Bobo were crowned the 2003 World Grand Champions, it was the climax of a spectacular show ring career.
		Nine was then named Four-Year-Old Horse of the Year by the Walking Horse Trainers' Association and voted Walking Horse Report Readers' Choice Four-Year-Old Horse of the Year.
		Nine was indeed the magic number in 2003, from the back number worn by Bill, to the nine show ring appearances and nine blue ribbons, to the nine years that have passed since Nine's sire, Gen's Armed And Dangerous won the World Grand Championship.
	www.walkerswest.com /img/Champs/TheWholeNineYards.htm (773 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the origin of "the whole nine yards"?
		If you were well-to-do, you could afford to have "the whole nine yards" of dirt removed for your grave, as opposed to the poor who couldn't pay for such a large plot.
		With regard to the origin of the phrase "the whole nine yards," one must keep in mind the inevitable reduction of the subtle and urbane to the pedestrian and vulgar in the hands of the "teeming millions." It seems perfectly logical to me that the true meaning of the phrase does indeed spring from football.
		In an instance of shortfallen achievement where a disdainful comment would be appropriate, it could be said sarcastically that "he went the whole nine yards." For example, in answering the original reader's query, Cecil certainly went the whole nine yards.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_252.html (1725 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards
		It must be internally true--you cannot claim that the whole nine yards comes from the fact that a man's three-piece suit require nine square yards of cloth if such a suit only requires five square yards.
		Despite the use of yards as the standard measurement of distance in football, nine yards is not a significant distance in the game.
		It is asserted that nine yards is a customary length of a burial shroud, and "the whole nine yards" would refer to death, and by extention any extreme, final limit.
	www.yaelf.com /nineyards.shtml (1183 words)

	The whole nine yards
		'nine yards of bleached domestic and three yards of linen'.
		Anyone who puts forward an explanation of an origin for 'the whole nine yards' which dates it to before the 1960s has to explain the lack of a printed record of it prior to 1967.
		"The whole nine yards" was in wide enough circulation in the USA in the late 1960s for it to be appearing in newspaper adverts.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/the-whole-nine-yards.html (1215 words)

	Articles: The Whole Nine Yards
		Other problems are that big square-rigged sailing ships commonly had more than nine yards and that the expression ought in that case to be all nine yards rather than the whole nine yards (the same objection can be made about other suggestions that involve numbers rather than areas or volumes).
		All the early references are linked to the Vietnam War and this has led a few researchers to suggest an association with the Montagnards, the hill tribes of Vietnam who joined the war on the US side and who suffered grievously as a result.
		It is sometimes said that there were nine tribes, and that the US Army commonly abbreviated their name to Yards.
	www.worldwidewords.org /articles/nineyards.htm (908 words)

	The Whole Ten Yards
		Unlike many sequels, which secure their existence and sometimes go into preproduction before the first movie even hits theaters, The Whole Ten Yards was not a pre-ordained outcome when the first film came out in 2000.
		The Whole Nine Yards was a modest surprise, a quirky mixture of genres and characters that did better than anybody expected it to.
		After the events in The Whole Nine Yards, Oz is a nervous wreck.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/whole_ten_yards.html (598 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
		The characters in Jonathan Lynn's "The Whole Nine Yards," yet another in an endless recent string of mob comedies (1999's "Analyze This" and "Mickey Blue Eyes," 2000's "Gun Shy"), are rarely ever written as real people, but merely as one-dimensional caricatures.
		"The Whole Nine Yards" is neither facetious nor, aside from the subplot about Jill's shocking eagerness to become a professional hitwoman, inventive, and more often than not, just lies there, the film spinning drearily around and around in the projector, but never igniting any sort of spark.
		Without a passable screenplay or any notable technical accomplishments, "The Whole Nine Yards" rests solely on the presumed charm of the cast, and half of the actors are not charming at all.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/w/00_whole9yards.htm (810 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suggested sources have included sources as diverse as the size of cement mixers, the length of bridal veils, the manufacture of kilts, American football slang, the length of cloth bolts, and the structure of certain sailing vessels (where "yard" is short for yardarm, not for the distance).
		One of the more common theories is that the expression dates from the Second World War, where the "nine yards" was the full length of a machine-gun ammunition belt, and to "go the full nine yards" was to use it up in its entirety.
		Also, the wedding sari in a hindu wedding is nine yards of silk that is wrapped around the body.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Whole_Nine_Yards (465 words)

	DVD REVIEW: THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There are plenty of sympathetic bad guys in "The Whole Nine Yards," a dark comedy that revels in bad taste.
		"The Whole Nine Yards" is littered with white trash, and enough jokes to fill a dumpster.
		Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry are engaging in "The Whole Nine Yards." Willis plays former mob hit man Jimmy Tudeski, who has the unfortunate luck to move next door to henpecked husband/dentist Oz Oseransky (Perry), who immediately recognizes his new neighbor.
	www.lightviews.com /wholenineyardsdvd.htm (631 words)

	Genie Tip 3 - The Whole Nine Yards
		"The whole nine yards..." is one of those phrases.
		was large or wanted an elaborate suit, it took the 'whole nine yards'.
		mission was said to have used his "whole nine yards".
	members.tripod.com /~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip3.html (413 words)

	IdiomSite.com
		Whole nine yards refers to the total amount of concrete held by a concrete truck.
		The truck holds a total of nine yards of concrete.
		When all the concrete was needed they would say, give me the Whole nine yards.
	www.idiomsite.com /wholenineyards.htm (132 words)

	DVD Review - The Whole Nine Yards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Perfectly cast and perfectly told, "The Whole Nine Yard" is hilarious form the first to he last minute.
		Matthew Perry’s agitated portrayal of Oz is laugh-out-loud funny, and Bruce Willis’ sly portrayal of the cool hit man is another one of his greatest performances.
		Bold and beautiful, Warner Home Video’s version of "The Whole Nine Yards" presents itself as a great release that is sure to please DVD fans.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/the_whole_nine_yards.shtml (938 words)

	"The Whole Ten Yards" / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Read our review of “The Whole Nine Yards,” to which this film is a sequel.
		The era in which it was produced helped because of strict codes that were followed about the appearance of blood in a movie (none), violence (next to none), sex (none), and the fact that Capra always had a moral twist to add through his films.
		If you didn’t see the first movie “The Whole Nine Yards,” you would never be able to follow this uneven, choppy story line, at all.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/thewholetenyards.html (1386 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Whole Ten Yards, The (2004)
		It is gravely doubtful that there is a single person on the planet who wished for a sequel to 2000's marginal mob comedy sleeper "The Whole Nine Yards." Nevertheless, here it is, a long four years later and its only reason for being to cash some paychecks.
		"The Whole Ten Yards" isn't so much a harmless time-waster as it is a vicious time-stealer, a worthless disgrace of a sequel whose plot forgoes narrative cohesion in exchange for a flimsy excuse simply to reunite the same cast of imbecilic characters.
		And, if at all possible, the one-dimensional characters have regressed into even bigger caricatures than they were in "The Whole Nine Yards." The general equivalent of 2003's worst picture, "The In-Laws," "The Whole Ten Yards" deserves nothing more than to be buried deep within the rubble of trash it eeked out of.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/w/04_whole10yards.htm (563 words)

	Whole Nine Yards
		A film with no message to convey, no deep issues to probe, just a means to forget the world for 90 minutes or so.
		Whole Nine Yards does well in this later category.
		Whole Nine Yards follows the belabored life of a dentist Oz (Matthew Perry), an American that lives and works in Montreal wife his shrew of a wife (Rosanna Arquette) and his horrible mother in law.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /whole.htm (758 words)

	WHOLE NINE YARDS, THE; Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, CinemaSense.Com Review.
		WHOLE NINE YARDS, THE; Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, CinemaSense.Com Review.
		Matthew Perry is the delightful surprise that turns the Whole Nine Yards into an uproarious situation comedy.
		The Whole Nine Yards manages to create boisterous twists and turns throughout the plot that develops four opposing intentions.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/whole_nine_yards.htm (511 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whole Nine Yards is a 2000 fl comedy starring Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Amanda Peet, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kevin Pollak and Rosanna Arquette.
		Oz returns to his hotel room to find another notorious hitman in his room, one who was present at the Gogolak meeting, and he proceeds to beat Oz up until Oz admits he knows where Jimmy is. Things intensify from there.
		A sequel entitled The Whole Ten Yards was released on April 9, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Whole_Nine_Yards_(film) (400 words)

	Whole Nine Yards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The EP featured an up to date techno nine yards flavor of the single release called, "Underlying Pain." The songs, "Underlying Pain" and "The Blade" were played on Star Radio's mega station KZZK, Quincy University radio and other Missouri / Illinois stations.
		The Nest, a soundtrack for New York director Greg Paul's version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was presented at The Quincy Community Theatre in Quincy Illinois in 2000.
		Whole Nine Yards ™ 1996-2005 Word Mark Goods and Services IC 009.
	www.wholenineyards.biz /index4disco.htm (372 words)

	THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
		The Whole Nine Yards is about a dentist named Nick "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry, Three To Tango).
		Plans are hatched, double-crosses are set and surprises are planned, but the whole film reeks of “been there, done that.” Most of the attempted jokes that aren’t revealed in the trailer mainly revolve around either the high dentist suicide rate or the fact that the French put mayonnaise on hamburgers.
		The only other redeeming quality of Yards is the performance of Amanda Peet (Isn’t She Great), who plays Oz’s assistant Jill.
	www.sick-boy.com /wholenineyards.htm (587 words)

	AUE: FAQ excerpt: "the whole nine yards" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		9 yards is not a particularly significant distance either in football or in the garment business (a man's three-piece suit requires about 7 square yards of cloth, and cloth is sold in bolts of 20 to 25 yards).
		The phrase may refer to the capacity of ready-mix concrete trucks, alleged to average about 9 cubic yards.
		Michael Nunamaker writes that a friend of his in the U.S. Air Force suggested a World War II origin: "According to him, the length of the ammunition belt (feeding the machine guns) in the Supermarine Spitfire was nine yards.
	www.alt-usage-english.org /excerpts/fxthewho.html (210 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards (2000): Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosanna Arquette - PopMatters Film ...
		he director of The Whole Nine Yards, Jonathan Lynn, used to specialize in delectable mayhem disguising chilly objectivity, as innocents driven to reluctant guile clash with Machiavellian schemers wearily exploiting human weakness.
		The Whole Nine Yards returns to those preoccupations via a hectically plotted script, rich in the bizarre but rigorous logic characteristic of the Cambridge University school of British comedy, and an oddly assorted ensemble cast.
		The Whole Nine Yards is no exception, though its fantasy ending (the two white male leads paired oh-so-neatly with the two younger, also white, females) plays out in particularly disturbing ways.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/w/whole-nine-yards.html (1239 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards
		The Whole Nine Yards proves to be a hysterical blend of Airplane and Goodfellas.
		Watching 'The Whole Nine Yards' and waiting to laugh is almost as futile as licking a popsicle stick in the hope it may eventually start to taste sweet.
		Judging from the dull light that pervades every scene, The Whole Nine Yards wasn't just all shot in the same place, it was all shot on the same day.
	rottentomatoes.com /m/whole_nine_yards (895 words)

	Whole Nine Yards, The (2000): Reviews
		For quite of few of The Whole Nine Yards, it appears that the most clever thing in the movie is going to be the opening credits, monstrous close-ups of the morning toothbrushing routine.
		That´s the reason why, "The Whole Nine Yards" is just a movie that tries to copy all the forced cliches of the Mob genre.
		"The Whole Nine Yards" worth just for the macabre humor (Amanda Peet steals the show), but as a whole is just a few inches.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/wholenineyards (818 words)

	Whole Nine Yards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Jonathan Lynn is on, his comedies strike the right note and he's on in The Whole Nine Yards.
		The delivery and situation are perfectly mated and Perry's frustration with his wife and mother-in-law set the wink-in-the-eye tone of The Whole Nine Yards.
		Warner delivers The Whole Nine Yards as a special edition featuring audio commentary by director Jonathan Lynn.
	www.filmsondisc.com /DVDpages/whole_nine_yards.htm (543 words)

	Whole Nine Yards
		Whole Nine Yards is one of the fast rising breakbeat labels that is wowing dance floors worldwide with heavy hitting artists committed to techy breakbeat mayhem and mischief.
		Their explosive live gigs, impressive DJ sets, and wild parties have earned them a reputation as pioneers of the breakbeat sound.
		Their tough underground breakbeat is aimed straight at the dance floor and has been played by premier league DJs such as DJ Hyper, Adam Freeland, and Rennie Pilgrem.
	www.epitonic.com /labels/wholenineyards.html (272 words)

	DVD Review: The Whole Nine Yards
		Director Jonathan Lynn was enormously successful with "My Cousin Vinny", but stumbled a bit with "Trial and Error", which, although it did highlight the debut of Charleze Theron, was a pretty weak effort.
		With "the Whole 9 Yards", he's found not only a funny screenplay, but performers that are up to the task.
		Final Thoughts: I enjoyed "The Whole 9 Yards" quite a bit; it's not perfect, but I laughed a lot and enjoyed the performances.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews/whole9yardsdvd.html (979 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards
		It may be only February, but The Whole Nine Yards is already a prime contender for Worst Movie of the Year.
		It's not a film as much as a concept spawned by focus group, a sad but telling example of the contempt with which movie audiences' tastes and intelligence are viewed these days.
		The Whole Nine Yards delivers considerably less than nine good laughs.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/WholeNineYards.htm (602 words)

	The Whole Nine Yards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Oz is reluctant to revisit his hometown, but Sophie flmails him into the deed.
		"The Whole Nine Yards" has plenty of twists and turns, but few of them are remotely interesting.
		"The Whole Nine Yards" falls about eight yards short of being enjoyable.
	www.usmusicvault.com /wholenineyards.html (498 words)

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