86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to be removed from the menu (i don’t know why that is the code). So “to 86” something is to remove it, get rid of it, or be done with it. Some have extrapolated that to also mean to remove someone by killing them, but that is not at all a common way to interpret the phrase. And 47 is referencing Trump who is the 47th president of the US. 46, then, referenced Biden.
187 is an old California police code for a murder. Might still be in use, I don’t know. It came into more common knowledge with the song Deep Cover by Dr Dre and Snoop in 1992 with the lyrics “Yeah, and you don’t stop /
'Cause it’s 1-8-7 on a undercover cop”
It’s not obscure at all, and it isn’t limited to just restaurants. I’ve known the term 86, referring to removing something or someone, since I was kid.
In our super-stellar, better-than-everyone-else, American exceptionalism job market, many Americans end up working their asses off for less than minimum wage in the service industry at least once in their lives. Enough so that we’re all mostly familiar with the most common industry slang.
86 is a restaurant term, basically meaning that there is no more of a dish.
46 in this context is the 46th president of the united states.
And for a serious response on shell pattern, its referencing shotgun shells; if you are using birdshot, you get a very spread out pattern of impact points, with buckshot it would be a tight grouping of impact points (shotgun shells are packed with metal BB’s instead of a single, larger chunk of metal).
86 started at a speakeasy during the prohibition called Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street in NYC. They’d kick out poorly behaved people, telling them to “86 it” out the door. These days restaurant workers and kitchen staff is 86 to mean that a menu item is unavailable or someone is being cut off or kicked out. It basically means “get rid of it”.
86 is a common term in the hospitaly industry for “getting rid of”.
It sometimes refers to items out of stock, but it also refers to being kicked out or refused service at an establishment. Like someone being too drunk and getting thrown out of a bar can be said to have been “86’ed”.
It’s a signalling method used since the Cold War when morse code transmissions were easy to intercept. You form your message by placing shells together, and wait for the intended receiver to chance upon the said shells and read the message. In today’s time, it is apparently still used by the heads of American agencies to issue top secret kill orders to private contractors (read: mercenaries).
What does a shell pattern mean?
Please explain it for everybody that isn’t American.
86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to be removed from the menu (i don’t know why that is the code). So “to 86” something is to remove it, get rid of it, or be done with it. Some have extrapolated that to also mean to remove someone by killing them, but that is not at all a common way to interpret the phrase. And 47 is referencing Trump who is the 47th president of the US. 46, then, referenced Biden.
lol and this obscure thing is general knowledge to american people?
anyways, thanks for the clarification
Americans have so many weird number associations
420
10-4
7/11
401k
5150
187
411
Etc.
i only know about 420 and 69 thanks to memes😅
Like half of those you listed are police codes that they use over the radios that seeped into common language.
You lost me at 5150 and 187
187 is an old California police code for a murder. Might still be in use, I don’t know. It came into more common knowledge with the song Deep Cover by Dr Dre and Snoop in 1992 with the lyrics “Yeah, and you don’t stop / 'Cause it’s 1-8-7 on a undercover cop”
It’s not obscure at all, and it isn’t limited to just restaurants. I’ve known the term 86, referring to removing something or someone, since I was kid.
In our super-stellar, better-than-everyone-else, American exceptionalism job market, many Americans end up working their asses off for less than minimum wage in the service industry at least once in their lives. Enough so that we’re all mostly familiar with the most common industry slang.
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I’m not American and English is not my own language
It’s pretty commonly used slang in the US, especially back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Shells on a sandy beach, arranged to form numbers.
I thought it was some bullet lore.
And what do the numbers mean?
86 is a restaurant term, basically meaning that there is no more of a dish.
46 in this context is the 46th president of the united states.
And for a serious response on shell pattern, its referencing shotgun shells; if you are using birdshot, you get a very spread out pattern of impact points, with buckshot it would be a tight grouping of impact points (shotgun shells are packed with metal BB’s instead of a single, larger chunk of metal).
The shell pattern is actually referencing a picture Comey tweeted of sea shells in a pattern on a beach that formed the numbers “86 47”
86 started at a speakeasy during the prohibition called Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street in NYC. They’d kick out poorly behaved people, telling them to “86 it” out the door. These days restaurant workers and kitchen staff is 86 to mean that a menu item is unavailable or someone is being cut off or kicked out. It basically means “get rid of it”.
86 is a common term in the hospitaly industry for “getting rid of”.
It sometimes refers to items out of stock, but it also refers to being kicked out or refused service at an establishment. Like someone being too drunk and getting thrown out of a bar can be said to have been “86’ed”.
It’s a signalling method used since the Cold War when morse code transmissions were easy to intercept. You form your message by placing shells together, and wait for the intended receiver to chance upon the said shells and read the message. In today’s time, it is apparently still used by the heads of American agencies to issue top secret kill orders to private contractors (read: mercenaries).