To: dp0622
Where did “buy the farm” phrase come from anyway :)Air Force terminology for a crash that wipes out the farm and must be bought and also refers to the demise of the pilot.
21 posted on
09/11/2015 1:17:53 AM PDT by
cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: cpdiii
The “farm” is a 6x3x6 foot plot or as we call it the grave
23 posted on
09/11/2015 2:42:15 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: cpdiii
really , I always understood it as an euphemism for the farmer dying and his insurance paying the mortgage.
51 posted on
09/11/2015 6:13:47 AM PDT by
Chickensoup
(We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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