> But 23 skiddo came from a New Years party in 1923 where some drunk welcomed in 1924 by yelling "23 skiddo." And that's the truth, dagnabit.
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23 Skidoo came from the Flatiron Building in New York City. Set the way back machine to a time when a glimpse of a woman's ankle was rather risque, Sherman. When wind blew around the corner of the Flatiron Building, located at 23rd Street and Broadway (and Fifth Avenue), women's skirts would blow up allowing young rapscallions a glimpse at the fairer sex. This corner at 23rd Street soon became a popular place for loitering young gentlemen. The police would come around and chase off the loiterers, the old 23 skidoo.

Which is how 23 skidoo came about to mean "let's get out of here".

I'll try to post later about the whole nine yards, but as a teaser: every explanation offered so far in this thread about the origins of "the whole nine yards" is incorrect. (Nobody mentioned nine square yards to make a great kilt or the nine square yards of bombs a B-52 carried or the cubic capacity of concrete mixer trucks. All of which aren't the original source of the term.)

-Faux "also knows where '86 it' came from" Pas