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GuyFawkes@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t get it

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Americans say “86 [thing]” to mean “get rid of [thing]”

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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m an American and I rarely if ever hear this

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s something Americans say.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    86 is a term used in restaurants to tell the staff when a product is no longer available. 47 means the 47th president of the US

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For those OOTL (like I was):

  time.com/…/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investi…

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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