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Subject: RE: [OM] the ultimate tool
From: Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:06:23 -0800
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-chu2.htm

I suspect the theory of church keys turning into coat hangers arose during
too much use of the key for its intended purpose.

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Scott Gomez

-----Original Message-----
From: siddiq [mailto:iddibhai@xxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [OM] the ultimate tool

>  Bill you are dating yourself.  There are probably a bunch of folks on
this
>
>  list who are totally aclueistic about church keys.  I once had a theory
>  about church keys.  Figured they were the larval stage of coat hangers. 
>  Seems like whenever you needed one you couldn't find one however you
always
>  had a closet full of coat hangers, so it just figures the church keys
were
>
>  turning into coat hangers.  Bill Barber

so pray tell me what are church keys and coat hangers references to? somehow
I gather the former is a bottle cap opener? how the heck did these terms
arise

the whippersnapper.

/S
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