Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 08, 2010

Well, if that’s the tool he uses most……….

One tool does it all for Andy!

Opening a bottle with a chisel or a screwdriver is really dumb.

A bottle opener is a sacred object (why do you think it’s called a “church key”?

The one tool Andy uses and he’s a past master at using it.

Andy, are your ears ringing?

It is called a “Church Key” because the first ones were made by the “Church” Manufacturing Co. company, so I’ve been told.

Aren’t the rest of the tools Flo’s?

Can and bottle openers are a thing of the past, most young people don’t know what they are.

Keeped one in my Pinto, (a small car) but the ding thing would hide on me just the same.

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i’m surprised he doesn’t keep it in his pocket–he has to get up to get it–so much work, so little time!

Wordman, you’ve been told wrong.

Naming

There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term “church key”, though most agree the phrase is a sarcastic euphemism, as the opener was obviously designed to access beer, and not churches.

Another motive for assigning the device such a name could have been the fact that beer was first canned (for test marketing) in 1933 — the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill. This act, which predated Repeal of Prohibition, amended the Volstead Act, making 3.2 beer legal. Some experts have posited the term “church key” was a way to “stick it to” the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place.

One size fits all for that particular tool.

Keeping his bottle opener on a nail also prevents Andy from overindulging.

When Andy can no longer reach the opener, then it is time to stop.

Hhmm, wouldn’t it be in his hands once the opening started only to be replaced when he was done? Or by Flo when he passed out? At any rate, Andy would always know where to find it.

Marine belt buckle served nicely as a bottle opener. some other belt buckles do also.

You can open a beer with just about anything even another beer, if you want it bad enough.

Just squeese the can - it’ll pop right open.