Graves are 8' long and 6' deep and this is the only origin explanation that's not just random. "Deep six" originated around the same time in the roarin' 20s. It's been listed in every slang dictionary as "to kill" since before the 70s.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
No, this means to kill. It certainly means that to Comey.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
You don't have to be a waiter to know what '86' means. As I said in my other comment, at least in my experience, it's almost exclusively used to mean kick someone out.
Maybe it's a regional dialect? I've rarely heard it used straight and unironically. Closest I've seen was talking about firing someone in a joking way, alluding to mob movies, when our team manager discussed another coworkers poor performance review and said "Yeah we'll need to 86 him" and did the cutting motion across his neck. That's probably how that idiot Krassenstein meant it, but Comey posting out of nowhere is sus.
Mob movies were a literal staple of American media for decades. Multiple instances of mob slang have become common parts of American English and most of us probably use words/lines from them without having seen them ourselves.
Its really one of those things where its usage is commonly hyperbolic, but its literal meaning is very direct. And a person with the level of power and political standing of Comey (current or former) cannot be that loose with his words at any point.
I don't think he's being loose with his words. This type of coy wordplay is obviously tightly controlled, as he's skirting right up on the line of overt / actionable speech, without clearly crossing it.
He's trying to demonstrate that he's untouchable. Would love to see him proven wrong.
Graves are 8' long and 6' deep and this is the only origin explanation that's not just random. "Deep six" originated around the same time in the roarin' 20s. It's been listed in every slang dictionary as "to kill" since before the 70s.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
No, this means to kill. It certainly means that to Comey.
You don't have to be a waiter to know what '86' means. As I said in my other comment, at least in my experience, it's almost exclusively used to mean kick someone out.
I haven't waited and knew it only as "to kill" for my entire life.
Maybe it's a regional dialect? I've rarely heard it used straight and unironically. Closest I've seen was talking about firing someone in a joking way, alluding to mob movies, when our team manager discussed another coworkers poor performance review and said "Yeah we'll need to 86 him" and did the cutting motion across his neck. That's probably how that idiot Krassenstein meant it, but Comey posting out of nowhere is sus.
Mob movies were a literal staple of American media for decades. Multiple instances of mob slang have become common parts of American English and most of us probably use words/lines from them without having seen them ourselves.
Its really one of those things where its usage is commonly hyperbolic, but its literal meaning is very direct. And a person with the level of power and political standing of Comey (current or former) cannot be that loose with his words at any point.
I don't think he's being loose with his words. This type of coy wordplay is obviously tightly controlled, as he's skirting right up on the line of overt / actionable speech, without clearly crossing it.
He's trying to demonstrate that he's untouchable. Would love to see him proven wrong.