> > > > Well, hot dog! The link worked. Just click on the pictures and they get larger.
> > > > Howard
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> > > I just like the idea of the exclamation (expletive?) "Hot dog!!"
> >
> > That's the mild form of "Hot diggity dog!"
> > I know a lot of out-dated expressions, but then I'm a little out-dated myself. Do you remember the expression "Going like sixty?" It's left over from the days when a fast car could do 60 mph.
> > Howard
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> I do remember, "Going like sixty!" My grandad was a big one for "Dagnabit." And my boss is big into the Where Did That Phrase Begin? game....his favorite of the moment is that "the whole nine yards" is not football, nor cement, but something else entirely. Care to wage a guess?

Well I thought the etymology of that phrase is somewhat shrouded and wrapped in the mists of time, and there aren't many 18th century fashion couturiers alive with whom we could verify the facts with, so... well... Where *does* the "whole nine yards" really come from?


Wolf "what I'd like to know is what Twenty-three Skidoo means" spirit