• Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Why would 86 mean none?

    I like the theory that it’s like Cockney rhyming slang—eight-six, nix.

    Like what Don Cheadle’s character do in Ocean’s Eleven.

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      That portrayal was so bad that the leading theory is his character was actually an American faking it