Usenet Newsgroups Re: More ideas for Prunella From: Prunella@chelonium.plus.com (Prunella) In article <i5g0j6$ruf$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Rusty Hinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> writes Lydia Dustbin wrote: Isn;t it awful when something you have and use and think: 'these old things?  But they are so useful...' turn up in collectables? No. I have a can-opener which works rather like a cross between secateurs and a concertina, and cuts round the circumference of the tin, leaving a lovely wavy razor-sharp edge, just right for removing cylinders of flesh should you be very unwary. We've got a can-opener of the grip-and-pierce sort with the butterfly ratchet turny thing, which always worked well, even on square cans. Plus somewhere a lethal half-a-scissors version with a swing-out corkscrew in the handle. These days, about the only cans we have are baked beans, with ring-pull lids, which have often left me with the can in one hand and the ring in the other. Obviously, I can't get to grips with this new-fangled technology. And anyway, it was a rite-of-passage when I was young to attack a can with a lethal can-opener and thereby learn how to be careful. And also not to leave a successfully opened can of goodness on the kitchen table lest the dog snarfs the contents. From memory, it was pilchards in tomato sauce. -- Prunella Subject  More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella  Re: More ideas for Prunella