Balls to the wall did not originate with steam engines, as some of these "authority" figures on the matter state.
Remember, there were no televisions back then, nor radios, the primary media was writing in books and magazines.
An extremely cursory Google search will show you this term originated with pilots OF THE VIETNAM WAR ERA.
books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Balls+to+the+wall&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CBalls%20to%20the%20wall%3B%2Cc0
Gg. I'm going to bed now. Ninite.
Remember, there were no televisions back then, nor radios, the primary media was writing in books and magazines.
An extremely cursory Google search will show you this term originated with pilots OF THE VIETNAM WAR ERA.
books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Balls+to+the+wall&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CBalls%20to%20the%20wall%3B%2Cc0
Gg. I'm going to bed now. Ninite.
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Knocks and walks - to knock on the door and enter immediately.
The guy upstairs knocks-and-walks into our home anytime he feels like it. He just goes ahead and comes right in without waiting for "who's there" or "come in" or "coming!"
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The expression "balls to the wall" comes from a small winter festival called dark mofo held on the remote island of Tasmania, one events at this festival is called blacklist, there is a small group of very unique people who take mdma in amounts that large they are measured in kilos while pushing there bodies to new found limits over two weekends cutting chemically enhanced shapes to some of the worlds finest music, if this wasnt enough there is a light show which kills more brain cells than a direct shot of a 12 gauge shot gun to the head
This is all made possible but the biggest cooked lad in the world "David Walsh"
The expression "balls to the wall" comes from a small winter festival called dark mofo held on the remote island of Tasmania, one events at this festival is called blacklist, there is a small group of very unique people who take mdma in amounts that large they are measured in kilos while pushing there bodies to new found limits over two weekends cutting chemically enhanced shapes to some of the worlds finest music, if this wasnt enough there is a light show which kills more brain cells than a direct shot of a 12 gauge shot gun to the head
This is all made possible but the biggest cooked lad in the world "David Walsh"
aye guys i just brought 400 dingaz so nail them balls to the wall because we are going to cut some fucking mad shapes
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