Everything Is Awful

We have all heard the term 86, indicating that a restaurant is out of something. But do we know How did that the term originates? In this video we going to see some 5 funny stories about the term 86 originates, its going to be intresting so watch the video till the end. Number 1 86 is an American English slang used to indicate that an item is no longer available, traditionally from a food or drinks establishment or referring to a person or people who are not welcome in the premises. Its origins are unknown but seem to have been coined in the 1920s or 1930s. The first verifiable use of 86 dates to a 1944 book about John Barrymore, a movie star of the 1920s famous for his acting but not famous for his drinking habits as he dont drink. “There was a bar in the Belasco building … but Barrymore was known in that cubby as an ‘eighty-six’.‘eighty-six’, in the patois of western dispensers, means: ‘Don’t serve him. The most widely accepted theory of the term’s origin states it derives from a code supposedly used in
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