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[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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 5 months ago

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

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