Mary Mazzocco
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Wellpern since 1993; retired journalist and educator 🪬 "I'm not your crone. I'm not anybody's crone." -Ursula K. LeGuin Header: collection of pins 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.well.com/@mazz, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
![From Collegiate Dictionary Deluxe Edition (1998): eighty-six [...] to refuse to serve a customer; also to get rid of, throw out](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fdkafyvyhtorsa47zqhtoqvb/bafkreicixi7lhlbqkn6dncboi4e27oqz74okgielgrzv5v4m55urabnnhe)
![Definition of "eighty-six" from Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang (2nd ed., 1975): "1. No, nix, nothing; there is none left [...]2. A glass of water. [...]3. A person who is not to be served, as at a lunch counter, because he is THOUGHT TO BE UNDESIRABLE OR UNABLE TO PAY; a person who is not to be served liquor as at a bar, because he is or will become drunk and/or disorderly. 1944: He was known as an eighty-six, which in the patois of liquor dispensers means don't serve him.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fdkafyvyhtorsa47zqhtoqvb/bafkreigtabtexueo4ldtcd6ur2ss4oa53wbot6xd7kdi3ze2d5u35dkcji)
