I followed your link. I never knew what a "church key" was, before; I've used them, of course (I'm 65) but never connected the object with that term.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* "Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved." -Marcus Antonius. "All of your pain and suffering comes from your resistance to what is." -Dick Sutphen's one-sentence summary of the teachings of Buddha. "The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it." -Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803). */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 18:48 I ascribe to a similar explanation the marketing failure of the two-hole Coors beer can. Consumers were too intensely thirsty to poke in the small hole first, relieving the pressure so the large hole could be poked in with reasonable force. Printed instructions didn't help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink_can#Press_button_can --- On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:57:29 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > ..., the trick was to poke a hole in one end of an egg and a second >hole in the other end; you can't suck out the contents if you have just the >one hole, of course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
