Semi OT: Car confusion - RU86'd

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

--- 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.

The term to "86" something has been around for ages, many decades at least.  No association.

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