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To: fightinJAG
McCain has looked in the mirror and said, “This is it. Body parts to the wall.”

You can say "balls to the wall" without feeling dirty. It refers to the top of the sticks in the cockpit (another word that is not dirty) of a WW2 bomber. To go full speed, they had to push the sticks to the front of the dashboard, or go "balls to the wall".

It has nothing to do with body parts, and, frankly, if those body parts were pressed against a wall, I wouldn't be able to accomplish much.

139 posted on 09/24/2008 2:06:21 PM PDT by Defiant (Pacifism and Socialism: Death and Taxes, just lots more of it.)
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To: Defiant

“Body parts” was a little inside, “in country” joke. I just forgot, uh, no one here would get it. ;)

That said, I actually didn’t know the history of that expression. I always appreciate knowing such, so thanks!


216 posted on 09/24/2008 2:53:59 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Fly the flag!)
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