Grand Prize

At a military museum here in Victoria BC is a machine gun with a box of bullets strung along nine yards of material. It professes to be the origin of the phrase "give em' the Whole nine yards".

For hours of reading enjoyment, please enter "yards" into the archive-search box on the Discussion Forum page. Nine yards of previous posts should come up.

The sign on the display, no doubt, dates from 1993.

Given recent inflation rates, what's the Grand Prize worth now, Bob?

Maybe, instead of cash, it should be nine yards of something.