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Subject:Re: old school From:voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 23 May 2008 13:40:49 -0400
Ha! I forgot about the bottle caps. (I used the pointy ends for those, too,
actually) I have a bottle cap opener device attached to the deck of my
backyard. Still has the Coca-cola logo on it, too.
-Wendy
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> It's the device that was used to a beer or sode can. One side had a pointed
> part for punching trainagular holes in the top of a beer can and the the
> other side had a rounded part for opening bottle caps before they were
> twist-off.
>
> On 5/23/08, fritillary -at- gmail -dot- com <fritillary -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > I just have to ask, "What's a church key?"
> >
> > I do remember pop tops - my dad would always take them off his beer can
> and
> > drop them in the can.
> >
> > --Jennifer
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> > From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
> > Subj: Re: old school
> > Date: Tue May 20, 2008 10:46 pm
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> > Of pop tops and church keys ...
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> > I read an article some time ago that said researchers were using old
> >
> > beer cans to determine the rate at which rivers and ponds were silting
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> > up by how deep the push tabs, pull tabs, and can opener cans were buried.
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