VLVL2 (12): "86'd'

[joeallonby]

>From "Modern Drunkard"

<http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/09_03/09-03-medals-01.htm>

I'm a big fan of the 'publication'.

Joe

on 1/12/04 10:03 PM, Tim Strzechowski at dedalus204 at comcast.net wrote:

218.22:  "Weed soon found he'd been 86'd from every tux outlet in Hollywood
and on south [...]"
 

I lift this freely and plagiaristically from my own post at the start of
VLVL2 back in July, 2003:
 
"A number that comes up frequently in Pynchon discussions; most notably used
in the "Introduction" to Slow Learner:

"My first reaction, rereading these stories, was oh my God, accompanied by
physical symptoms we shouldn't dwell upon.  My second thought was about some
kind of a wall-to-wall rewrite ... [but] I mean I can't just 86 this guy
from my life" (SL, 3).
A few theories:

http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/4/messages/1014.html
 
http://tom.weblogs.com/2003/06/12
 
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_291b.html
 
http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=5060
 







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