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minus-squareBoxscapelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-25 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.
minus-squareGiveOver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 months agoThat portrayal was so bad that the leading theory is his character was actually an American faking it
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.
That portrayal was so bad that the leading theory is his character was actually an American faking it