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    How did a piece of (popular) meat become connected with a term used by bartenders for refusing service to inebriated patrons, which in turn, was the basis for naming a well known bumbling crime-fighter?

    Question #66916. Asked by peasypod. (Jun 14 06 6:48 AM)


    lanfranco

    		I think this must be the number 86. According to this site, the house steak at Delmonico's was #86 on the menu, and the restaurant was always running out of it. By some indirect process, patrons who are cut off
    by bartenders came to be described as "86ed" -- alcohol is no longer available to them. This seems to be only a theory, however. There are a couple of others, as the site explains.

    The crime fighter would, of course, be Maxwell Smart, though the page on him states that the rationale behind the choice of his number is uncertain.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(number)

    Jun 14 06, 7:52 AM
    peasypod

    		Would you believe....Yup, it's 86 alright, and I never new that 99 never really had a name.

    Jun 14 06, 7:06 PM

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