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neufer wrote:

• Thanks all!
  
  68 = [17]th earl of o[x 4]d

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68_%28number%29 wrote:
<<A 68-sided regular polygon may be constructed with compass & straightedge.

68 is the largest known number to be the sum of two primes in exactly two different ways: 68 = 7 + 61 = 31 + 37.
All higher even numbers that have been checked are the sum of three or more pairs of primes; the conjecture that 68 is the largest number with this property is closely related to the Goldbach conjecture and like it remains unproven.

In the restaurant industry, 68 may be used as a code meaning "put back on the menu",
being the opposite of 86 which means "remove from the menu".>>

Beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68_%28number%29 wrote:
<<In the restaurant industry, 68 may be used as a code meaning "put back on the menu",
being the opposite of 86 which means "remove from the menu".>>

Ah, you've got 18 more years on the menu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_%28term%29 wrote:

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<<"86","86ed", "86'd", or eighty-sixed when used as a verb in American English,
is a slang term for getting rid of something, ejecting someone, or refusing service.

The term 86'd may be associated with the Empire State Building. The first or lower elevators only went as far as the observation promenade on the 86th floor, where every one had to get out and, if they wanted to go to the upper floors, use another elevator for the last 16 floors up to the 102nd floor.

In 1965, the spy spoof TV series Get Smart chose 86 as the number of its bumbling agent protagonist, thus the missions he worked on were "86'd".

In 1987, in the Disney movie, The Brave Little Toaster, Lampy says, "That's it, it's over, I'm burned out, 86'd, to the showers!" when telling Toaster about the first time his bulb burned out.

In the musical Little Shop Of Horrors, during the song "Feed Me," Audrey 2 says, "There must be someone you can 86? Real quiet like..." while trying to convince Seymour to bring her more blood to eat.>>

Beyond wrote:
So... when you get to 86, you're going off the main menu and switch to the appetizer list