767'd

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:36:45 -0800, Benjamin Barrett
<gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:

>To fire, get rid of? Is this a play on something that happened in the
>production history of Boeing's 767 and/or a play on the verb to 86?
>
>Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA, March 19, 2005
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/saturdayspin/216621_sorbo19.html
>By CATHY SORBO
>His marital infidelity was considered by Boeing an act of corporate
>embarrassment, and Stonecipher was 767'd from the company.

Boeing is phasing out the 767 and replacing it with the 787, so it would
make sense as company slang for getting laid off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787


--Ben Zimmer