Settle an argument for me, who developed the F4U's curved approach for carrier landings.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I remember dad drinking Budweiser stubbies, too. There's a Brewster Buffalo joke in here somewhere.

 

[special ed]

Our office had bought a Coke machine, from Coca Cola, back in the 1960s which used the original size Coke bottles. It was about a cubic yard (or meter) in size with a star shaped handle on top which turned the storage drum when 6 cents were deposited. When Coca Cola quite using the original bottles, a fellow employee took it home. If we visited his home, it was in the den loaded with stubby bottled beer, still 6 cents.

 

[33k in the air]

Original Coors Yellow Jacket. Still available.
The Lucky Lager I just mentioned in previous post used the stubbies with twist off caps. Under the caps was a puzzle akin to the old game show "Concentration" IIRC.

Such throwbacks to the past may cause a rip in the beer spacetime continuum.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Such throwbacks to the past may cause a rip in the beer spacetime continuum.

You gotta be ripped to grok it at all.

 

[SaparotRob]

In fullness.

 

[GreenKnight121]

You youngsters don't remember when beer came in steel cans and you needed a church key to open it.

Or motor oil... we still have the combination hole-punch/spout in our garage.

 

[GrauGeist]

I've found quite a few old tin cans (some with traces of the old printing on them) that were punched with something round, like an Awl.

I seem to recall many years ago, seeing a can opener that made round holes like a punch.

 

[GrauGeist]

Or motor oil... we still have the combination hole-punch/spout in our garage.

Back in the day, a punch/spout wouldn't work well for tranny fluid because the hood was too close and the funnel too high, so I used a commercial restaurant can opener, which is much larger than the average one.

Worked great!

 

[PAT303]

So who developed the curved approach haha.

 

[WARSPITER]

So who developed the curved approach haha.

For a can opener ? I don't know.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

So who developed the curved approach haha.

That's dictated by the design of the can being cylindrical ... this forces a curved approach.

 

[WARSPITER]

That's dictated by the design of the can being cylindrical ... this forces a curved approach.

There is absolutely no need to get technical.

 

[Peter Gunn]

In fullness.

You must grok the essence in it's fullness...

Damn, now I have to dig up "Stranger" and read it again, thanks a lot guys.