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Bottle Opener Fender Brand in My
Man Cave a.jpg
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Bottle Opener Fender Brand in My Man Cave c.jpg
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Bottle Openers.jpg
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Ground squirrell October 25, 2019
OH, LOOK! ON MARCH 11, 2020 I FOUND THIS IN THE FLAG
HOUSE. I THINK ITS FROM MCDONALD'S TRADING POST AT LAKE
ITASCA, MINNESOTA!
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Bolder Bottle Opener.jpg
I found this on my shelf in the bedroom. No idea where
it came from.
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bottle openers all I could find.jpg
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Bottle Openers More of them.jpg
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South Mountain beer can.jpg
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bottle opener destapador I used in Mexico DF 1977.jpg
OE 1976
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fish bottle opener.jpg
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Bottle Openers Odell and more.jpg
HOW I SCRATCHED MY GUITAR
Tom Cole
I have a special flat church
key my sister gave me to open Boston Lager bottles,
which don't have the twist-off caps. My sister
gave me that bottle opener after I told her the sad
story of what took place when I finally bought a
top-of-the-line guitar. Here's what happened:
After a lot of waiting, my
specially ordered maple dreadnought came in from St.
Louis. It was a gorgeous thing but it had a huge
crack in the headstock. I played it for an hour or
so at the music store before we sent it back, but
when we got to looking at it we somehow became
convinced it was not made of maple but of koa. We
thought it had somehow been mislabeled. Since it was
the most gorgeous guitar anyone there had ever seen,
we changed the order and told them to send a koa
model to replace it. When the new guitar came in, it
looked nothing like the first. We were wrong, you
see; the first guitar was maple, but it had been
stained a beautiful coffee with cream color that
didn't look at all like the other maple dreadnoughts
in the store. I was a little disappointed because
the koa guitar, while still a thing of exquisite
beauty, was not quite as pretty, but I felt it had a
bigger sound so I kept it.
Now for the part about the bottle
opener. I was playing the guitar a few days later
and when I set it down I noticed to my horror that
there were some ghastly scratches on the beautiful
koa underside where you rest the instrument on your
thigh. Had that damned cat come in the doggie door
and scratched it? I was freaked. I'd never scratched
a guitar before -- and this guitar was something
else. The fingerboard was not rosewood -- it was
genuine ebony and it was understated and utterly
unadorned except for a single lightning bolt-like
slash of real abalone at the twelfth fret. The neck
was a single piece of wood and, similarly, the top
was one solid, super-expensive slice of spruce. The
back had a string of beautiful dark knots left from
long-gone branches. Each of the pegs in the bridge
was capped with a dollop of glittering abalone and
the action was like that of no other guitar I had
ever played. And it cost a small fortune.
I quit searching for scapegoats
when I found the 1930s vintage church key in my
pocket. One end was for popping bottle caps; the
other was for opening old fashioned beer cans -- you
know, with the sharp, upturned point on the end?
That point had been sticking through my pocket and
gouging the guitar. Dang!
God don't want me drinking all
that darned Boston Lager! But my sister and I are
defying him by using the flat bottle opener and we
think it ought to foil him for the time being. If he
punishes me this way ever again, I will hunt him
down and KILL him.
Bottle
Openers from 2022 Trip to Iceland, England, and
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Bottle Openers from 2022 Trip to Iceland,
England, and the Faro Islands.jpg
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style="border: 0px solid ; width: 400px; height: 250px;"
alt=" "src="can opener Mom's
kind.jpg"></a><br>can opener Mom's
kind.jpg<br>
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style="border: 0px solid ; width: 400px; height: 250px;"
alt=" "src="can opener Hamilton
Beach.jpg"></a><br>can opener Hamilton
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style="border: 0px solid ; width: 400px; height: 250px;"
alt=" "src="can opener Protor
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