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.