# "the whole 9 yards revisited"

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 12, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-9-yards-revisited/65154 "2001-05-12T01:20:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whole-9-yards-revisited/65154/9 "2001-05-12T05:20:55Z")

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I’m going to rent _Flying Tigers_(1942), because I could have sworn I heard John Wayne utter the line in it.

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