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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • But wouldn’t the common restaurant lingo be “86 THE cherries?”

    86 is a verb. To 86 something is to exclude it. But 86 alone is a number like any other. Just as 50 alone isn’t pronounced “five-oh” and doesn’t mean the Hawaii State Police. If I said “I’m 50,” you’d assume it’s my age, not my profession.

    If I said, “That’s the shit!” I’d mean the opposite of “That’s shit!”









  • You made points others didn’t, and your edit demonstrates another aspect of the alone/crowd response to a prompt.

    Laughing with a “crowd” supports you until you realize you were alone all the time, whereas thinking you’re the only commenter frees you to share your insights, but finding you were part of a crowd made you embarrassed about it. Don’t be. We all know being first allows comments to get more points, but more slowly typed comments also add value to the conversation.