Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:48:29 -0500

From: Robert Ness ness[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DICKINSON.EDU

Subject: the full Monte



A colleague informs me that he heard the following explanation for

the full Monte: from Field Marshall Montgomery's insistance during the war

upon a full English breakfast every morning, however he was circumstanced

in the field, and so the expression came to mean rashers, kippers,

eggs..., the whole kit and caboodle. I like the Montague Burton tailoring

shops explanation a bit better.