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Apparently everyone knows what 86 means. Having reached the age of 68, I have to confess I didn’t, but this is an American thing. If Englishmen are not au fait with 86, a surprising number of Americans don’t know what is a balaclava.

We both know what 88 means though, a bloke with a moustache who left a bad taste in the mouths of many people, while 69 leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, so 86 means what?

Well, in the restaurant trade it means something that isn’t on the menu, or rather that is on the menu but “We’ve run out”. Apparently, 86 comes from nix, ie nothing. Not exactly Cockney rhyming slang, but it works.

Outside of the restaurant trade, it can mean something far more sinister, so when compounded with 47, it has a definite meaning, as a certain James Comey must surely have known when he “found” those seashells on his morning walk.

As the President said, Comey is a dirty cop; we now have irrefutable proof of that; behind Hillary Clinton, he was arguably number 4 or even number 3 in that sick attempt to take down the first Trump Presidency. Now, this act of crass stupidity will hopefully be the catalyst to indict the entire, filthy cabal. They smeared Trump and his family unremittingly, they tried to jail, him, bankrupt him, and have generated so much hysteria they even nearly had him assassinated, but now the boot is on the other foot, accountability is coming, so is justice, and, hopefully, a terrible revenge.