In my wasted youth, I as soon as worked a summertime task as a waiter at Shoney’s. It is an experience that I do not advise. It did teach me 2 important things: 1) How not to drown in a puddle of my own humiliation when marching around the dining space with my fellow servers and singing a birthday tune that started, “Happy, pleased birthday, we’re so pleased you came”; and 2) That when the surly line cooks ran out of chicken fried steak, they would scream “86 the chicken fried steak!” through the pass.

To “86” something, in dining establishment slang, is to state that it is out, completed, gone, through, not on the menu any longer. This is the only sense in which I have actually heard the term utilized in my whole life.

According to Wikipedia, which naturally has an entry about the term, 2 additional significances do exist. “86” can likewise be used to individuals a dining establishment declines to serve, and some slang dictionaries state it can describe murder.

Which brings us to previous FBI director James Comey, Instagram, and a photo of seashells.

86 the shells!

In 2025, Comey published to Instagram a picture of shells set up in the shape of 2 numbers: “86 47.”

Trump, our 47th President, has actually long harbored an animosity versus Comey, returning to Comey’s examination of Trump’s possible Russian ties. Trump notoriously fired Comey in 2017– then, for great procedure, fired his district attorney child in 2025.

Trump has actually been clear for many years about his desire to utilize the power of the federal government to make life harder for Comey, and federal authorities in his 2nd term have actually wanted to comply.

They have actually likewise been quite dumb. Through a series of terribly inexperienced actions, the administration currently had its very first Comey indictment threw out in Virginia– a loss so legendary that it got Trump’s interim United States lawyer for Virginia booted, too.