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- From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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- Subject: Re: The Whole Nine Yards
- Message-ID: <9212291618.AA14452@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:18:12 GMT
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- > Does anyone have a more logical (or documentable) explanation?
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- I think we discussed this a year or so ago, but I can't remember the
- conclusions we reached -- if any. Graham? You're good at remembering
- such things. Or was it on another list? I'm pretty sure that this is
- another one of those expressions with no documentable explanation.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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