What’s In a Number?

What’s In a Number?

Over the past few days a fascination with the numbers 86 and 47 has grown in America.

Put them together and you get the last four digits of someone’s phone number, the last four digits of someone’s Social Security number, a lotto number, a house number, a number on a raffle ticket, a locker combination, I could go on and on.

To use the reference of “86”-ing something has been a part of history originating in the restaurant and bar industry dating back to the 1920’s. It has been used to indicate that a menu item is no longer available or that a customer should be ejected. In other words, to get rid of something or someone. It doesn’t mean “to kill”. You can “get rid” of something or someone without “killing it”. You can stop serving it, throw it away, especially if it’s rotten, or physically remove it.

As for the number “47”, currently most Americans may refer to that as being the current number “president” a/k/a SHITHOLE.

Of course, nobody was talking about either of these numbers until Comey stated he took a walk on a beach and saw “8647” on the sand in the form of seashells.

Which was probably just something he created on his mobile phone as I just did. Or maybe it was real. But however he saw it, he posted it on social media and all hell broke loose.

As if 8647 isn’t something most of the world doesn’t think about every day. Because we do.

And it’s stupid for anyone to have a problem with it because they are just four numbers.

Unlike the following images and incidents, which have no numbers involved:

If you have no problem with this image:

Then you have no business being bothered by this image:

If you have no problem with these assholes

Conspiring to kidnap and kill this woman:

Then you have no business being bothered by this image:

If you have no problem with this cuckoo asshole:

Attacking this man to almost killing him and affecting he and his wife’s life:

Then you should have no business being bothered by this image:

So going forward I, along with millions of others, will continue to write “8647” wherever and whenever we want. Because, despite how SHITHOLE may feel about those numbers being used together, they are just that: numbers.