[HN Gopher] An Uplifting Origin of 86 (2001)
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An Uplifting Origin of 86 (2001)
Author : susam
Score : 30 points
Date : 2025-05-18 16:04 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| wizardforhire wrote:
| If you like me have grown weary of trick headlines that in no way
| portray the words they are written with, you will be relieved to
| know this is not one of them.
|
| It's a quick read that tickles the mammalian foraging behavior
| itch that is manifest by our insatiable desire for novelty.
|
| My only complaint is that more research has not been done on this
| most important of esoteric subjects.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Refreshing to see some research on how it really got started.
|
| The breathless feigned shock that Comey would share "86 47" is
| tiresome, especially coming from an administration whose head
| unrepentantly shared an image of the president bound and tied
| mid-kidnapping.
| Sniffnoy wrote:
| Is this readable for free anywhere?
| timewizard wrote:
| The entire "86 47" saga is a game of the "woke right." Seeking
| victimhood status so they can smear their enemies and tie the
| press up in knots.
|
| Meanwhile Trump and family are in the middle east making deal
| after deal and no one is really paying any attention or tracking
| the stakes.
|
| This whole thing is an outrageous circus. I'm severely
| disappointed in all American institutions right now for playing
| along with it even a little bit.
| ctkhn wrote:
| Their hatred isn't of the machine, it's that they're not in
| charge of it. It's incredibly tiresome from both sides, to be
| honest, because the machine is what causes a lot of our current
| problems no matter who's in charge of it.
| pstuart wrote:
| The "both sides" thing had some merit in the past but that
| was a different world -- the current admin is a whole new
| level of self-dealing and disregard for the law except as a
| weapon to punish its enemies.
| timewizard wrote:
| Well we've witness both sides engage in that behavior
| recently. The only thing different about our world is the
| level of apologia and backward looking justifications that
| gets injected into social media about them.
|
| Which I normally wouldn't comment on but your post is
| fairly ironic given the current thread. Which is claiming
| that the media is entirely absent from it's coverage of
| Trumps latest schemes in order to argue about what,
| precisely, a former FBI director meant with a picture of
| seashells.
|
| Perhaps if the dog and pony show died down we could return
| to the very reasonable perspective that greed does not obey
| political boundaries.
| taneq wrote:
| I thought '86' in this sense was rhyming slang for 'nix' (ie.
| 'nullify' / 'negate')?
| Henchman21 wrote:
| I thought the term came from a speakeasy in Manhattan that had
| an exit on 86th street. So when ejecting a patron who'd become
| too drunk & disorderly, they'd "86 'em!", which roughly meant
| pushing them out the exit onto 86th street. I've heard this
| particular tale from multiple bartenders in Manhattan. I've
| always questioned its veracity, as it feels a bit too good to
| be true!
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