DG made a reference in a reply which I've never heard (and I'm quite good at understanding slang)Somebody translate this...

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I got sounded a great deal like some of the customers that I had to 86 from various bars.

It's slang that means to throw out or to be kicked out. It's also navy slang for drunk or wasted.

'Websters suggests it was probably rhyming slang for 'nix.' First appeared 1967 slang : to refuse to serve (a customer); also : to get rid of : THROW OUT' www.funtrivia.com

That's it. The woman I talked to sounded like she was deep in the bag. She seemed to be at the point at which forming words was difficult.

(Bag as in brown paper bag, in which some keep their "short dogs" or bottle of whisky, cheap wine, or quart of beer. "Deep in the bag" means that they are nearing the end of the bag, end of the bottle, that is to say, long past legally drunk.)

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Originally posted by methos:
Eighty-six, slang for "eliminate" (1936), originated as lunch counter slang, a cook's word for "none" when asked for something not available, probably rhyming slang for nix.

When I was working my way through college, one of my jobs was waiting tables. Every night, the chef would write the various specials on a blackboard in the kitchen so all of the wait staff would know what we had that evening. One night the kitchen ran out of lobster, and so next to the word lobster on this blackboard, the chef wrote, "86." All us in the wait staff knew what it meant...Except for one poor girl, who told her tables that, among the specials, "We have 86 lobsters remaining." The manager had to explain to her what it meant, and also explain to the few tables that ordered lobster, that they were out that evening. No, the waitress did not get 86d after that!