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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was mostly curious and love random trivia. So I looked it up and apparently it has a wiki page. It did actually originate in the restaurant/bar scene but way back in the 1920’s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That explains it. I only knew the term because of a few of the old heads using it when I started in the mid '90s.