Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:35:47 -0400

From: Benjamin Barrett Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GNN.COM

Subject: Re: 9= police



"The chocolate cake is 86'd!" is a common use of 86 in restaurants to mean

it's all gone. I would think that being thrown out of a bar might have come

as an adapted meaning, but I've never heard the expression "they were 86'd

from Joe's Tavern before."



Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:35:06 CDT

From: Marla Broom mlbroom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SAUMAG.EDU

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Subject: Re: 9= police



This is an old one, but a number none the less: if a person is 86'd from

a bar, they are thrown out. No one I ever asked knew why this was so.

Marla

Benjamin Barrett

gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gnn.com

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