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    Default Better Butterflies

    A few months ago I found an old style butterfly can opener in a supermarket and bought one.

    It's the sort my Grannie used.

    This sort




    It costs a lot less and works far more efficiently than the latest plastic handled gizmo.

    Have you heard that story before?

    "What have we to do
    but stand with empty hands
    and palms turned upwards
    in an age which advances progressively backwards?"
    T.S.Eliot. Choruses from the Rock.
    Brian.

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    I've got about half a dozen of those. But I still pefer my OXO.

    Randy
    "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." J. B. Books
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    In UK "OXO" is a beef extract cube. What is it for you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Labarum View Post
    In UK "OXO" is a beef extract cube. What is it for you?
    It is a bit different here in the states!

    Randy
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    Thanks, Randy.

    And "Randy" is another difference:

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/randy
    Brian.

 

 

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