the whole nine yards

OrB~! Look what I found! But since he's incorrect about "your name will be mud/your name is mud" hearkening back to Dr. Mudd (see Today's Word thread) on the same page, I dunno. Take a look at the rest of his stuff and see what you think. http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~jsokol/etym.html

The Whole 9 Yards - The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." Thanks to Sarah Yohannan for this contribution.

P.S. So who's Sarah Yohannan?