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OT -- Church Key Origin? The Ranger 05-11-2008
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Posted by The Ranger on May 12, 2008, 12:33 am
> Wikipedia (you could look it up too) says:

I have and did look at that Wikipedia page. It's been my
experience that Wikipedia isn't the end-all-be-all that most
hope. There need to be some better checks and balances put in
place to assist in _verifying_ those links of "evidence"
[supporting pages]. Until then, it should not to be trusted as
an authoritative source.

(And yes, I visited some of the links cited on that entry prior
to clicking on the Wikipedia.)

The Ranger



Posted by SteveB on May 12, 2008, 1:08 pm

>> Wikipedia (you could look it up too) says:
>
> I have and did look at that Wikipedia page. It's been my experience that
> Wikipedia isn't the end-all-be-all that most hope. There need to be some
> better checks and balances put in place to assist in _verifying_ those
> links of "evidence" [supporting pages]. Until then, it should not to be
> trusted as an authoritative source.
>
> (And yes, I visited some of the links cited on that entry prior to
> clicking on the Wikipedia.)
>
> The Ranger

Maybe so, but the basically informative information that can be had with a
few keystrokes is exponentially ahead of some of the webtvers and cerebrally
impaired here. They were not checking on nuclear fusion.

Steve



Posted by on May 12, 2008, 1:38 pm

>
>> My daughter-units were using our church key to open several
>> bottles of soda today. Daughter-unit Alpha was really intrigued
>> by it -- the design, functionality, everything about it -- and
>> asked me why it was called a "church key." I hated to admit
>> it... But I didn't have an answer. Gooja didn't help narrow
>> down that bit of trivia.
>>
>> Why is it called a church key?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> The Ranger
>
>Wikipedia (you could look it up too) says:
>
>> 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.
>> One explanation for the term "Church Key" lends its origin an almost mythic
>> significance; in Medieval Europe, monks and nobility were the only brewers.
>> Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked, as the monks guarded the
>> secrets to their craft. The monks carried keys to these lagering cellars on
>> their cinch, or belt. It may have been this key from which the "Church Key"
>> opener got its name.
>
>cw in mi

Thank You !!!!
Bout time someone actually answered the question without name calling
and/or being an asshole. I remember when the newsgroups were the ONLY
source of information and people were much more helpful and less
nasty. That was before the web existed. After wasting my time
reading numerous name calling posts which took longer to type than to
simply answer the damn question, we finally got an answer. Sure, we
can all spend hours searching the web for answers, and reading reams
and reams of useless trash, but my time is more valuable than that.
If i was doing a research paper, the web is great, but for a simple
answer to a simple question, there is usenet. It irritates me to no
end when people answer questions on newsgroups by telling the asker to
use google, or posting a pile of web urls. When I come to usenet, I
came to usenet because that's what usenet is about. A place where
people share information. It's too bad the new generation can not
realize that, and just use the newsgroups to be rude and nasty. I did
add a few more names to my killfiles as a result of this thread.

Posted by evodawg on May 13, 2008, 11:13 am
Dick Adams wrote:


>
> Google is a haven for spammers and other HUE-MON trash
> so I use Altavista and Yahoo. Let's have a round of
> applauds for everyone who refuses to use Google.

I've started using Yahoo and dropped Google from my search engine lists.


--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586

Posted by Harry K on May 13, 2008, 10:00 pm
On May 12, 10:38=A0am, pos...@usenet.com wrote:
>
> >> My daughter-units were using our church key to open several
> >> bottles of soda today. Daughter-unit Alpha was really intrigued
> >> by it -- the design, functionality, everything about it -- and
> >> asked me why it was called a "church key." I hated to admit
> >> it... But I didn't have an answer. Gooja didn't help narrow
> >> down that bit of trivia.
>
> >> Why is it called a church key?
>
> >> Many thanks.
>
> >> The Ranger
>
> >Wikipedia (you could look it up too) says:
>
> >> There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origi=
n of
> >> the term "Church Key", though most agree the phrase is a sarcastic euph=
emism,
> >> as the opener was obviously designed to access beer, and not churches.
> >> One explanation for the term "Church Key" lends its origin an almost my=
thic
> >> significance; in Medieval Europe, monks and nobility were the only brew=
ers.
> >> Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked, as the monks guarded t=
he
> >> secrets to their craft. The monks carried keys to these lagering cellar=
s on
> >> their cinch, or belt. It may have been this key from which the "Church =
Key"
> >> opener got its name.
>
> >cw in mi
>
> Thank You !!!!
> Bout time someone actually answered the question without name calling
> and/or being an asshole. =A0I remember when the newsgroups were the ONLY
> source of information and people were much more helpful and less
> nasty. =A0That was before the web existed. =A0After wasting my time
> reading numerous name calling posts which took longer to type than to
> simply answer the damn question, we finally got an answer. =A0Sure, we
> can all spend hours searching the web for answers, and reading reams
> and reams of useless trash, but my time is more valuable than that.
> If i was doing a research paper, the web is great, but for a simple
> answer to a simple question, there is usenet. =A0It irritates me to no
> end when people answer questions on newsgroups by telling the asker to
> use google, or posting a pile of web urls. =A0When I come to usenet, I
> came to usenet because that's what usenet is about. =A0A place where
> people share information. =A0It's too bad the new generation can not
> realize that, and just use the newsgroups to be rude and nasty. =A0I did
> add a few more names to my killfiles as a result of this thread.- Hide quo=
ted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

So your time is more valuable that the rest of the world? _Someone_
took _his_ valuable time to do a search on the net to provide _you_
with the answer.

Do you see a problem there?

Harry K

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