Althouse: Alternative meaning.

May 17, 2025

Alternative meaning.

51 comments:

Jamie said...: Why, it's simplicity itself!; 5/17/25, 10:23 AM
Wince said...: Think of this: it was 8647 days since September 11, 2001 when Comey posted the sea shell photo.; 5/17/25, 10:27 AM
n.n said...: 8647 S Colfax Ave, Chicago, IL 60617 is a land for sale listed on the market for 23 Days. 8647 S Colfax Ave, Chicago, IL 60617 is in the Far Southeast Side neighborhood, which has a median listin...

This was obviously a Planned Perturbation (PP). All's fair in lust and abortion.; 5/17/25, 10:43 AM
Wince said...: Jamie said...
Why, it's simplicity itself!

"It's simplicity itself. You see, you point it at what you want to die..."; 5/17/25, 10:44 AM
Iman said...: Comey Comey Comey Comey Comey Comedian
You sure do blow you sure do blow-oh-oh-oh…; 5/17/25, 10:44 AM
J2 said...: I understand the Secret Service is to interview Comey's wife.; 5/17/25, 10:50 AM
n.n said...: $478,000

4beds

2baths

1,776sqft

8647 S 3965 W, West Jordan, UT 84088

Is Comey in real estate?

Make of it what you will.; 5/17/25, 10:58 AM
Peachy said...: Of course that is what he meant.; 5/17/25, 11:00 AM
Breezy said...: Comey recognized a sewing pattern # for multiple blouses? Well, I’ll be damned.; 5/17/25, 11:01 AM
Kate said...: The pattern eighty-sixes the shoulder material.; 5/17/25, 11:18 AM
JRoberts said...: Maybe someone should register the number and introduce a new whiskey, rum or tequila using the name.; 5/17/25, 11:25 AM
Bob Shepherd said...: Let's see, 86 in the restaurant business means we're out of this dish and can't serve it any more. So namba' 8647 means we all out of broccori beef this week. Well worth posting on the internet, i'd say.; 5/17/25, 11:26 AM
Original Mike said...: "I understand the Secret Service is to interview Comey's wife."

Good.
Does he have a dog?; 5/17/25, 11:27 AM
Eva Marie said...: Ha. I thought you were illustrating the different perception of races. The white woman, politically correctly, placed to the back, nevertheless exudes a wholesome appeal. (Stereotype) The woman of color, diverging from the ideal weight and exhibiting an alluring stance and version of the outfit. (Also a stereotype); 5/17/25, 11:30 AM
Wince said...: Nightclubs invoke the term "86" as a code when a guest's invitation to remain has been terminated.; 5/17/25, 11:31 AM
Ice Nine said...: >Kate said...
The pattern eighty-sixes the shoulder material.<

It murdered the shoulder material?! Heinous.; 5/17/25, 11:32 AM
loudogblog said...: I doubt that Comey owns a sewing machine.; 5/17/25, 11:33 AM
bagoh20 said...: I'm gonna get this out of the way now: 86 49.
48 will be awesome, but Americans go in and out of consciousness.; 5/17/25, 11:50 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Is this the same group that laughed about the pickup truck with a life-size decal of Biden tied up in the bed?; 5/17/25, 12:02 PM
Peachy said...: Kak-a-phony
huh? Were those honky tonks former FBI?; 5/17/25, 12:04 PM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/17/25, 12:15 PM
Mark said...: "Nightclubs invoke the term "86" as a code when a guest's invitation to remain has been terminated."

Which definitely doesnt mean 'no longer valid' and for sure means they took it to the alley and strangled that invitation until it had no pulse.

Yep, for sure means that.; 5/17/25, 12:16 PM
Kakistocracy said...: I suppose it's possible that they don't know what "86" means in common parlance (and don't know how to use Urban Dictionary), but I think it more likely that they're just lying about it meaning "kill", so they can go after Comey. It's another distraction — with the added bonus that Comey can use the press to flog his book.; 5/17/25, 12:17 PM
Peachy said...: Kak-A-Phony doesn't understand that when a former FBI director posts a call to kill - it's not the same thing as the left calling for its minions to blow up Tesla dealerships.
oh wait...

Kak-A-Phony - For you.; 5/17/25, 12:20 PM
Krumhorn said...: The source of 86 as a code for leaving is Article 86 of the UCMJ, Absence Without Leave (AWOL). 86 has been adopted in many verb forms as a result, some of which have veered away from the original.

- Krumhorn; 5/17/25, 12:24 PM
bagoh20 said...: When they say "Kill the music." They don't mean shoot the band members, but if they say "Kill the President" they don't mean unplug his mic.; 5/17/25, 1:33 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: One more time for emphasis:

Wince said...
Think of this: it was 8647 days since September 11, 2001 when Comey posted the sea shell photo.

5/17/25, 10:27 AM; 5/17/25, 1:36 PM
Ann Althouse said...: “ The claim that May 15, 2025, is exactly 8,647 days since September 11, 2001, is false. The correct number of days, based on standard date calculations, is 8,648 days (including the start date but not the end date) or 8,649 days (including both dates). The 8,647-day figure may stem from a miscalculation or intentional symbolism in Comey’s post, but it doesn’t match the actual calendar duration.”

Grok; 5/17/25, 1:44 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Back to the garden of Eden.; 5/17/25, 1:49 PM
rehajm said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/17/25, 2:03 PM
rehajm said...: …being dragged to the fabric store as a small child- holy carp that was boredom. One store was in an old factory below a giant dam and I was left to wander. There had been flooding over the pervious week and they opened all the gates in the dam. The water was amazing. I was so bored I wanted to jump in…; 5/17/25, 2:09 PM
rehajm said...: …when you don’t include the end date the math works and why would you include the end date when that day was not complete?; 5/17/25, 2:12 PM
Mary E. Glynn said...: If Comey comes out as trans, wearing one of those off the shoulder shirts, Imma really hit your tip jar, althouse!!; 5/17/25, 2:12 PM
Mary E. Glynn said...: “ The claim that May 15, 2025, is exactly 8,647 days since September 11, 2001, is false. The correct number of days, based on standard date calculations, is 8,648 days (including the start date but not the end date) or 8,649 days (including both dates). The 8,647-day figure may stem from a miscalculation or intentional symbolism in Comey’s post, but it doesn’t match the actual calendar duration.”
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That's just too coincidental, being a day or two off though...; 5/17/25, 2:13 PM
narciso said...: when it came to adapting one of comey's memoirs, they actually tried to make the Moscow hotel tape, of the Danchenko dossier real, yes i'm being cereal, this was long after it had been debunked, Paul Vidich another aspiring novelist takes a crack at the same material, with a twist, in his Poets Game; 5/17/25, 2:14 PM
rehajm said...: 8,647 days and six hours. Suck it Grok…; 5/17/25, 2:21 PM
Quaestor said...: Would Comey look comely in that hot pink off-the-shoulder number?; 5/17/25, 2:45 PM
Lazarus said...: Poor Jim Comey, still dreaming of "Jenny 867-5309."; 5/17/25, 3:10 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Go to timeanddate.com and put start date 9/11/2001 and end date 5/15/2025 and hit the calculate button. The answer is 8647.

The exact number may be debatable but what is not debatable is that would be what Comey's attorney would argue. Reasonable doubt and a round of "those MAGAts so stoopid".

A lot more likely than some random sewing pattern review.; 5/17/25, 3:21 PM
FullMoon said...: Mildly interesting that the right wingers here accept the fact that "86" can have more than one meaning.
Meanwhile, the leftys pretend there is one particular meaning that 100% does not, never did, and never will exist.
Interesting but not at all surprising.; 5/17/25, 3:41 PM
Jersey Fled said...: “ I doubt that Comey owns a sewing machine.”

But he might.; 5/17/25, 3:44 PM
chuck said...: Hoover was the dress guy, let's not confuse him with Comey.; 5/17/25, 3:46 PM
FullMoon said...: Looking at picture of shells, the "86" is fairly neat and symetrical, while the 47 is sloppy and childish.; 5/17/25, 3:53 PM
Mason G said...: "…being dragged to the fabric store as a small child-"

Happened every summer for my brother, sister and me. We had to pick out what we wanted for our clothes, my mom made new ones before every school year. I was in high school before I got store-bought shirts.; 5/17/25, 4:02 PM
Christopher B said...: I remember those. My mother and sister sewed a lot of clothes though eventually mom mostly did pajamas; 5/17/25, 5:02 PM
Wince said...: Comey used all those ambiguities intentionally as a publicity stunt for his book.

My guess, however, is those ambiguities will sell infinitely fewer copies than the The Beatles White Album.; 5/17/25, 6:26 PM
The Vault Dweller said...: You know when you got the melody of song in your head but can't quite remember the lyrics correctly? Maybe it is that. 8-6-4-7-3-Oh-Niiiinnne.; 5/17/25, 7:28 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: FWIW, my experience with "86" was in culinary and hospitality places -- it meant you were out of that item. "86 prime rib!" Also, to "86" a drunk in a bar, it meant to throw him out. In both cases, it is "the end of (something or someone)". It is a stretch to call it a call to kill Trump. IMO, Comey meant it to be obtuse. Meanwhile, many peop---- idiots have called for 47's death and, of course, two people have tried -- one almost successful. If DJT's head had been blown off, the liberals would have been screaming, "NOW do you maga-nuts believe we need gun control??"; 5/17/25, 7:59 PM
Gospace said...: UCMJ was adopted in 1950. The number 86 for disposal or getting rid of whatever was in use well before then.; 5/17/25, 8:23 PM
Krumhorn said...: Apparently Gospace is correct. Use of 86 predates the UCMJ. My bad.

- Krumhorn; 5/17/25, 10:24 PM
Jaq said...: That photo is a blast from the past. Growing up in a house with two sisters born in the late forties who made their own dresses for school and church and dates, Simplicity patterns were always around.; 5/18/25, 9:11 AM