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submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

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