Eighty-six or 86 is American English slang used to indicate that an item is no longer available, traditionally from a food or drinks establishment; or referring to a person or people who are not welcome in the premises.  Its etymology is unknown but seems to have been coined in the 1920s or 1930s.  The term is now more generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something.  In the 1970s, its meaning expanded to refer to murder.  It is often used in food and drink services to indicate that an item is no longer available or that a customer should be ejected.  Beyond this context, it is generally used with the meaning to 'get rid of' someone or something.  Walter Winchell wrote about this in 1933, in his syndicated On Broadway column.  In this, the code 13 meant that a boss was around, 81 was a glass of water and 86 meant "all out of it".  Professor Harold Bentley of Columbia University studied soda jerk jargon and reported other numeric codes such as 95 for a customer leaving without paying.  Author Jef Klein theorized that the bar Chumley's at 86 Bedford Street in the West Village of Lower Manhattan was the source.  His book The History and Stories of the Best Bars of New York claims that the police would call Chumley's bar during prohibition before making a raid and tell the bartender to "86" his customers, meaning that they should exit out the 86 Bedford Street door, while the police would come to the Pamela Court entrance.  The 1947 song "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate", by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, uses soda-jerk lingo, among which is "86 on the cherry pie".  The 1995 song "86" by Green Day is about them being rejected from their punk rock community when they started achieving commercial success.  The 2015 song "The Remedy" by Puscifer uses the termonology "Trolls get 86s" from the house if you don't respect its rules.  Agent 86 in the 1960s TV show Get Smart gets his code number from the term.  During the song "Feed Me (Git It!)" from Little Shop of Horrors, as "Audrey II", the plant, tempts Seymour Krelborn with offers of fortune and luxuries if he continues to feed it blood, the plant utters, "There must be someone you could 86, real quiet-like, and get me some lunch!"  The 2018 comedy crime film 86'd by Alan Palomo depicts five stories taking place at a 24-hour deli with a theme song composed under his Neon Indian moniker.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)   

Benedict Cumberbatch, reading T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” and the recitation was entwined with music:  a score composed in the nineteen-seventies by the novelist Anthony Burgess, to accompany the poem.  Cumberbatch, keyed up by the piano and the other instruments arrayed behind him, took the lines at quite a tilt, slipping between accents like a quick-change artist donning pants and hats, and thus reminded us how funny this bitter poem can be.  Eliot’s sense of humor, whether savage, lugubrious, or droll, never lay far below the surface, and, as we honor the centenary of his most celebrated work, it’s worth bearing in mind his responses to a questionnaire that was sent out to a batch of poets, in July, 1922. “Do you think that poetry is a necessity to modern man?”  Eliot:  “No.”  “What in modern life is the particular function of poetry as distinguished from other kinds of literature?” Eliot:  “Takes up less space.”  Anthony  Lane  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-shock-and-aftershocks-of-the-waste-land   

The Perfect Beverage—Not Just For Plants  https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-from-the-october-3-2022-issue   

Burrata originated from the Italian word burro, which implies butter, which hints at the richness of this stracciatella filled cheese.  Burrata is a fresh, soft Italian cheese created from cow and buffalo’s milk.  This white sphere of cheese has a delicate interior of cream and curd and an exterior shell of mozzarella.  Its smooth and flowy texture helps it stand out.  Burrata cheese always comes in a light brine of water and salt and that’s because it’s a fresh cheese.  That also means you need to pay attention to the expiration date as it usually doesn’t last for too long.  Mahy Elamin  Link to recipes using burrata cheese at https://www.twopurplefigs.com/burrata-cheese/   

The Morgan Library & Museum  225 Madison Avenue in Manhattan  Sunday, December 7, 2014   The Magic of Hans Christian Andersen  2–5 p.m.  2:15–2:45 p.m. & 3:30–4:00 2–5 p.m.  Christmas Present!  2–5 p.m.  3–5 p.m.  Calling All Ladies and Knights:  Photo Shoot in the Parlors  3–3:20 p.m.  A Christmas Carol Off the Shelves:  Reading in the Library  https://www.themorgan.org/programs/winter-family-day 

see you in the funny papers  interj  (US, humorous, informal, dated)  Goodbye; see you later.  The American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who created the comic strip Peanuts, was born November 26, 100 years ago in 1922.  Wikipedia   

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