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If a bartender runs out of something or wants to get rid of it, she may tell other barstaff to 86 it. Likewise, a bartender can 86 a customer who’s had a bit too much by kicking them out.
- Clair Mclafferty
- The Barman
- Bar Spoon – a long mixing spoon which often has a lemon zester or something similar on the other end. Bitters – a herbal alcoholic blend which is meant to be added to other cocktails to enhance flavour (e.g a Manhattan is rye, sweet vermouth and a couple dashes of bitters).
- Call Drink – Refers to when the customer orders a drink by giving both the specific name of the liquor and the name of the mixer. E.g. Tanqueray Ten and Tonic, Bacardi and Coke.
- Dash – A few drops or a very small amount of an ingredient. Dirty – Adding olive juice to a martini which makes it a Dirty Martini. The more olive juice, the dirtier the martini.
- Dry – Very little vermouth added to a martini. The more dry the customer wants their martini, the less vermouth added. Flame – Setting a drink on fire. Sambucca is often lit on fire to heat it up before putting the flame out and drinking it.
- Dave Allred
- Ian McShane as Al Swearengen in Deadwood. And the winner is… That’s right, Al “Fuck, Shit, C-Word” Swearengen of Deadwood. Nobody can match the brains, wit or brutal verbal and physical bashings that this guy can administer.
- Moe Szyslack on The Simpsons. My wife said to me, “How can you list Moe so high in your rankings? He’s a cartoon.” Are you kidding me? How can you NOT? He wields a shotgun behind the bar and wears an extension cord for a belt.
- Ted Danson as Sam Malone on Cheers. Oh, Sammy! With a black book containing more names than there are words in the dictionary, you are to be worshipped and revered like the womanizing man-beast you are.
- Woody Harrelson as Huckleberry Tiberius “Woody” Boyd on Cheers. With the exception of #1 on this list there probably isn’t a more entertaining character on television than Woody Boyd.
- I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.
- Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.
- This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.
- A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it?”
Eighty-six or 86 is American English slang used to indicate that an item is no longer available, traditionally from a food or drinks establishment, or referring to a person or people who are not welcome on the premises. Its etymology is unknown, but seems to have been coined in the 1920s or 1930s.
Aug 9, 2018 · If you go to a bar and you ask for a gin and tonic, you'll probably get the well brand, usually something like Barton, Booth's, or McCormick. If you want Tanqueray 10, you have to call for it by name.
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Jan 28, 2023 · 86ed: Bar slang for running out of item or discontinuing something. Behind the stick, behind the pine: Simply put, working behind the bar. Burn the ice, burn the well: The ice needs to go!
