To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:57:43 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Church Key needed at 5th Friday
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:20:07 -0500 "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:
>

> A "church key" is a *can opener* of the sort once used to punch
> holes in
> the tops of beer (and soda) cans.   They have largely disappeared
> because
> all beer (and soda) cans now come with pull-tabs.    Bottle openers
> (which
> pop off crimped-on bottle caps) are not "church keys," but with the
> advent
> of the twist-off cap, they too are disappearing.
>
> --Ted White
>

Apart from the question of precisely what type of can or bottle opener
the term 'church key' properly denotes, I wonder how or why the
expression came to be adopted.

Ron Kean

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