On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:51:10 +0100, Matthew Malthouse
> wrote:

>On Sun, 10 May 2009 09:44:19 -0700, Mack A. Damia
> wrote:
>
>> I created a fuss with my friend a few years ago by searching heaven
>> and earth for one of the old-style can openers with a point. You
>> stuck it in around the rim and did a wrist boogie around the can.
>>
>> I kept saying that they disappeared because they worked too well!
>>
>> No fuss...no electric....just a simple tool that worked!
>>
>> And it disappeared. A curse on mankind.
>>
>> I actually found one in the boxes of stuff that I have accumulated
>> over the decades, but it was old and rusty - not too good.
>
>Last I had one was from a camping shop. I've also seen them on
>flashier pen or utility knives.

I have seen those and may have one. I have yet to use all the blades
on my Swiss Army knife bought nine years ago.

Not *quite* the same thing, though.
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mad