Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd

[roccit_53 at hotmail.com (C Boyko)]

This reminds me of a word origin question I ask as a "stupid bonus question" 
on tests, " For which animal were the Canary Islands named?" The corrrect 
answer of course is canines, they were well populated by dogs before we 
started breeding the cute singing birds from there. It's way too easy to 
make the wrong connections sometimes. And you DON't want to hear the latest 
stupid bonus, trust me on that.
Cathy

>From: Eric S <scirocco81@vwmail.net>
>Reply-To: scirocco81@vwmail.net
>To: Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>,Don Walter 
><dswalterwi@earthlink.net>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd
>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:35:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>Don, you just got OWN3D!
>
>--
>Eric
>www.VintageWatercooleds.com
>
>79 VW Iltis
>81 Scirocco S (*TDI* swap and complete restoration in holding pattern)
>81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v Motronic
>90 Corrado TDI
>91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
>
>
>
>--- Jeff Toomasson <jtoomasson@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Sorry, Don - there's no confusion here. That is the biggest crock of sh*t I 
>ever heard. The term "86'd" originated LONG BEFORE the RU-86 pill was ever 
>invented.
>
>http://waitersguide.20m.com/jargon.html
>
>Eighty-sixed (86'd):
>    Wild West legend has it that if a rowdy acted up, the bartender would 
>serve him from a bottle of 86 proof whisky reserved for female customers. 
>Shamed, the cowboy would leave in a huff. The term was used in restaurants 
>in the 1920's to mean "nix" or "we're all out." Later on the term was used 
>to describe someone that shouldn't be served. _______
>
>
>Or this one from 
>http://lifeintheweeds.tripod.com/lifeintheweeds/Jargon.html
>
>"A term used when you are out of something completely"
>
>_________
>
>The term generally means to intentionally leave something out. Maybe the 
>sadistic Dr. who invented that pill numbered it after the term, but not the 
>other way around. Sorry if this comes off like a flame, but your incorrect 
>implication of insensitivity on my part kind of irks me (though this was 
>probably not your intention).
>
>JT
>
>BTW - from which reference did you get that nonsense?
>
>
>Don Walter <dswalterwi@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know where the term 86-it came from. It comes from the part 
>number of the pill (RU86) to kill unborn babies.
>
>RU86 = Are you dead? killed? expired? etc...
>
>Just makes me think twice about using that term. I don't mean to offend 
>anyone or say that we shouldn't use it, but place some perspective of the 
>origin.
>
>Don
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Toomasson
>Sent: Dec 3, 2003 3:44 PM
>To: Michael Keogh , scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
>I think the Cutlass is for pulling the scirocco, but I would agree with
>86-ing it altogether! :p
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Keogh"
>To:
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:34 PM
>Subject: RE: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
>
>Rhett-
>
>If you don't mind me asking; after parting out your Scirocco, how much
>cash will you have to play with?
>
>I think you should forget autocrossing a Cutlass.
>
>-Michael
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rhett Farnum [mailto:rocco_crossing@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:29 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Semi OT: Car confusion
>
>
>
>Over Thanksgiving break my parents brought to my attention that I really
>
>have no money left to play. I really want to keep autoXing but the
>Cutlass
>would take a lot of time and hard work to get to handle decent. As most
>of
>you know by now my rocco is in many pieces as I am parting it out. (need
>any
>parts? email me!!)
>
>Here are a few options I have come up with.
>
>1. Keep my rocco, fix the holes in it roughly, drop my spare 1.7L in it,
>put
>it on a trailer and run it race only.
>
>2. finish parting the rocco and dump the money into the Cutlass to make
>it
>look nice and handle a littel better.
>
>3. Finish parting out the rocco and sell the cutlass and find something
>that
>I can use for both street and autoX, more in a stock class.
>
>I like option 1 the most simply because it keeps one more rocco around
>for
>longer. I know in the long run it may cost me more because I would like
>to
>get a truck to pull the trailer instead of the Cutlass, but I think it
>would
>also be the most fun.
>
>
>Peace Out,
>Rhett
>Rocco_crossing
>'83 Rocco (DEAD!!) :-(
>
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>Don
>1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
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