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Dear Straight Dope:
Why are beer can openers called church keys??? If you know you are
a
better man than I am, Gunga Din. --judy edelkind
SDSTAFF Mac replies:
Two reasons, the first being the "Ben Abbate" answer. For some of
us, opening a beer bottle -is- a religious experience. The other
is that churches used to have big doors with big locks, with
equally large keys. Churchkeys (the real ones) are often oversized
hunks of metal, kinda like churchkeys, the bottle-opening
kind.
--SDSTAFF Mac
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board
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