Church Key?

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Does anyone still carry/use or even refer to one of them old can/bottle openers as a Church key? anyone have some really old ones?

I did a search but came up with little.

I spend alot of time (especially when travelling) around some freight-hopper/hobo punk folk and i've seen alot of church keys recently. Are they making a come back?

i've decided to pick one up at a flea market for less than a dollar, plus it has a decent corkscrew at the side. Long enough to work too, unlike alot of recent low cost opener tools.

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We have one sitting in the silverware drawer.

We don't use it much, though. About the only thing we use it for is to make pouring holes in cans of hot sauce and condensed milk.
 
I use the term when at a friends house looking to open a beer, I usually get blank stares, then again I'm 24.
 
Many, many moon ago back in my misspent youth, no beer had pop top cans or twist off tops. We all carried one and we called it a church key. They also had application for fighting although I never used one for such things or even saw them used in a fight. All us juvenile delinquents carried one. Fights in those days were not like today. They were more of a Sharks versus the Jets kind of thing with lots of dancing and singing. :D
 
Hahahaha. ok. the above post made my day. I can just imagine people squaring off with church keys and some song by leonard bernstein playing in the background. +1
 
Did anybody else notice that the ones made recently are made of some cheap metal that you can easily bend in two opening a stubborn bottle cap? Once the bottle opener end bends beyond a certain point it will no longer grasp the bottle cap.

Don't say I don't know my own strength because it didn't happen 20 or 30 years ago when I actualy had some strength. :)
 
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