At 04:17 PM 8/22/2001, Kent J. Miller wrote:
>Roy has come the closest so far as to the reason bottle openers are referred
>to as church keys! The story that I was told when I was but a youngster was
>that a church key was a very large Ward style of key. You guys are familar
>with the term "skeleton" key, right? That is the most simplistic Ward style
>key used in the lock industry. Anyway, someone discovered that a real church
>key (read very large Ward style key) could be used to open a bottle. The
>cuts in the key face would grasp the bottlecap well enough to open the
>bottle...
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I believe that what was used was the handle bit, not the toothed bit that
goes into the lock.
Peter C
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