More on “86”

In my recent post called “86,”  I told the story about how my father liked to use the Army lingo he’d learned in 1942 when he entered WW II.  He explained to my brother and me that it meant to be out of something, especially in the kitchen, e.g., “Sorry, we’re 86 on eggs.”

It turns out that “86” means more specifically to “Throw (something) Out,” as T and O on an old rotary phone are 8 and 6 respectively.

Thus “8647” means “Throw out the 47th president.”  Note that to throw out a president can be accomplished through nonviolent and completely legal means, e.g., impeachment or removal via the 25th amendment.  Yet the ultra-right-wing media is pretending not to understand this, and is telling its audiences of hateful idiots that James Comey was calling for the president to be assassinated.