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MtnDon
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2015 11:47am
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https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw
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buckybuck
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2015 12:52pm
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Geez, this is like watching a movie about my life. I can remember the flat top cans from my college days, by cracky, when we'd punch the first hole, hold the can inverted above our mouth, and then punch the second hole. Kids today have to use a funnel and hose to get the same effect.
And how many of you can remember almost swallowing a pull top at some point in your misspent youth? You can thank Ermal Fraze for inventing both the pull top and pull-back tab. He died in 1989, but his little machine shop is still in operation a couple of blocks from my home.
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hattie
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2015 01:22pm
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AMAZING!!!! Who'd a thunk so much science in one little can!! Thanks for posting this!!!
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yesiam
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# Posted: 8 Jan 2016 04:08pm
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I love videos like that. I remember well the pull tops of the past. While I cannot take credit for it we would make up gag gifts. This was the time of the Carter presidency and the short-lived introduction of the president's infamous brother Billy and Billy Beer. We would take a pull top from a beer can, fold it over into the pull ring part, insert a penny and voila....people would ask what's that....the answer of course was....it's a Jimmy Carter dollar in a Billy Carter money clip.
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 8 Jan 2016 04:58pm - Edited by: DaveBell
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Flat top from 1950 I think.
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beachman
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# Posted: 9 Jan 2016 05:17pm
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We can all thank Jimmy Buffet for cutting his heel on a poptop for the new designs. We used to put the poptops in the cans and call them "governors". Occasionally, you might choke on one.
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