were afraid to ask

[axe31]

any question you would like an answer for
between all the pixies we may know the answers
ask away

Q. wat dose the hole nine yards refare too

[Grumble]

Hey Axe,
Just to be sure what your question was, I am afraid your spelling is not quite correct so I want to be sure that I am answering your query.

Q. What does 'the whole nine yards' refer to?

the actual specifc reference I am not sure of, but the meaning is to go all the way, complete the whole task, do it all.

Where the nine yards part comes from is something another person could enlighten us. I know that a cricket pitch is 22 yards long from stump to stump, perhaps it has something to do with another sport.

Like your style Axe good to have you around buddy.

[Clint]

Q. Just what exactly would you do for a Klondike Bar???

[BamaKyttn]

First:
Axe..... I seem to recall somewhere that the mounted machine guns used on planes during some big farking war(s) had approx. nine yards of ammunition in a string, therefore if you gave the enemy all you had you gave them the "whole nine yards"

Next:
GG: whats cricket all about anyway? the only ref I've really ever heard is in Hitchikers Guide to the galaxy.....

and Finally
Clint: gimmee some suggestions.

[Grumble]

Kyttn,
cricket is a game played by 2 teams of 11 players on a pitch 22 yards long, a set of 3 stumps 9 inches wide and 28 inches high at each end. on top of the stumps are 2 bails.

There are 2 batsmen one at each end of the pitch. The fielding side spreads out to stop the batsmen hitting the ball and running, each time they both run and reach the other end 1 run is scored. if the ball crosses the boundary on the full it scores 6 runs and 4 runs if it has touched the ground before hand.

One bowler bowls an over which consiosts of 6 balls, he tries to dismiss the batsman by hitting the stumps (bowled) having him caught without the ball hitting the ground first and a few other ways.

It is a fairly complicated game but in the longer version, each side has 2 innings and the one with the highest combined total wins.
10 batsmen have to be dismissed to complete the innings.

Cricket is a major world sport and is played in many countries including, Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, England, South Africa, all through the West Indies, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe. Some is played in the US and Canada but it isnt big there. Australia holds the world one day cricket title. The World cup of cricket will be played in South Africa later this year.

[FussyPucker]

BamaKyttn - Yes that's where the saying "the hole nine yards" comes from !

As for cricket good explination grumbleguts I'll be watching it most of the weekend England are doing pretty well against India at the moment !!

[Mr. 3G]

I concur.

It came from WW1. The .303 light machine gun (mostly Bofors and Browning) ammo was on leather and later metal (like breakaway bike chain) belts. 9 yards of the belt with bulletts attached fit inside one ammo box. So when the "gerries" were coming over the hill or something/someone really pissed you off, you gave them"the whole nine yards" This usually resulted in the barrel of your gun melting and it was imperitive to unscrew it and toss it before the entire gun was ruined. You'd screw another gun barrell on quick and give the "hun" another 9 yards.

Laying in rat infested MUD for six years and gut shooting folk by the thousands is "fun" like few of us have ever or will ever experience.

Sorry if this fucks up some sexual fantasy.

[fooie]

Nobody knows where it came from.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_252.html

[BamaKyttn]

Fussy and 3 G >blushing< never been told I was right by so many attractive men.

Kyttn

[lixnlix69]

I was always under the impression that the saying "The Whole Nine Yards" referred to the Queen of England's wardrobe. Her dresses were made from a bolt of fabric and that bolt contained nine yards of the textile. She, in her infinite wealth, could afford to have her ensembles sewn with the entire contents of the bolt. Other, less fortunate women, couldn't afford that much fabric. Ergo..........The Queen's gowns were made with "The Whole Nine Yards"!

Now why would I think that, (and in such detail too)? *shrugs her shoulders*Hmmmmmmmmmm..........OH.....I am a seamstress! I knew there was a reason I heard this before.

Mrs. Lix

[heatluvintxn]

http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/nineyards.htm