Jethro – I also remember using Church Keys and a funnel as well as the big spout (or traditional style as he called it) which I thought was a great idea! Never saw the Trigger version.
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I have lived through those trying times.
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anounamis – Oh I dunno…. those old tin oil cans are probably rotted into rusty dust in the landfill by now whereas the 1 and 5 quart plastic containers have a nuther 500 years to go!
1
Milwaukees Best!?
That was the shit we bought when we couldn’t afford beer.
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Old Joe’s Plan B – “C’mon man, Pop a cap”. As in bottle cap, not shoot someone. Old Joe’s old school.
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Milwaukees Best!?
Cheap beer? Hell I can still smell Old German and Strohs farts!!
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… and Iron City!
OMG that shit wuz nasty!
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Harry
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 17:27 AT 5:27 PM
“anounamis – Oh I dunno…. those old tin oil cans are probably rotted into rusty dust in the landfill by now whereas the 1 and 5 quart plastic containers have a nuther 500 years to go!”
…if they just sat on the shelf a bit too long, the treated cardboard body got spongy enough that the can would collapse when you tried to ram the spout into it, lipping open in an unpredicable location around either the tin lid or tin bottom where it interfaced, spewing oil until you figured out which end was leaking and turned it up, only to find you HAD poked a hole in the top as well so the oil was coming out no matter WHAT you did.
…good times, goooood times…
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SNS Yeah – you never worried about how fresh the oil was. How fresh the cans were was the issue!
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So . . . Milwaukee’s Best kills fetuses?
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Marooned
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 18:26 AT 6:26 PM
“So . . . Milwaukee’s Best kills fetuses?”
…probably involved in MAKING a lot of them, too…
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After my dad died, we found a few old Shell oil cans in the cardboard containers in his garage leftover from his Shell gas station. I think my brother still has them for some reason or another. And yes, those cardboard oil cans were a pain in the ass and messy when opened with the oil can filler spout.
Jethro, do you remember the ones with the little slots on either side of the rivet, and you could break off the tab put it in a slot, pull it back, and shoot the ring about thirty feet?
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“Brew 102…the beer that made Milwaukee jealous.”
Can we dispose of these leftist rolls by drowning them in a 55-gallon drum of 30 weight motor oil?
trolls
SNS
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 16:18 AT 4:18 PM
“I would use a knife to poke it into the can, then just try not to drink it later.”
…Im quoting myself because I should have added a skill most young men develop at parties, which is to drink in a way that foreign matter such as pop tops pushed into the can are automatically detected and rejected at the lips. This is an important life skill that I suspect exists even today, due to the strong possibility you pick up the wrong can or bottle at the party, swig without looking, and discover youre quaffing from a beverage container that had been repurposed into the community ashtray.
Or worse someone had spat a great big loogie of chewing tobacco in it. There is nothing more gross than this.
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We had another driver who was an absolute slob who would leave his styrofoam coffee cup full of spat out chewing tobacco in the cup holder inside the van when he finished his route. He damn near got his ass kicked for that till my boss fired him.
I’ve done it before.
I would use a knife to poke it into the can, then just try not to drink it later.
That looks like an original pull tab, the kind that would slice your foot open at the beach. Kids used to make chains out of them.
It says “dispose of properly”.
Mission accomplished.
Ahhhh the old Church Key!
like so many great things about America, its gone the way of the dodo
Plan C would have been vented.
@Wild Bill
I remember making the chains as a kid.
I prefer this:
https://youtu.be/DoZLF34OqqU?si=z6H99zY8MRYF9v-V
Jethro
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 16:44 AT 4:44 PM
…dude, I started working on cars in the ’70s.
I opened so…many…oil…cans like that…
Jethro – I also remember using Church Keys and a funnel as well as the big spout (or traditional style as he called it) which I thought was a great idea! Never saw the Trigger version.
I have lived through those trying times.
anounamis – Oh I dunno…. those old tin oil cans are probably rotted into rusty dust in the landfill by now whereas the 1 and 5 quart plastic containers have a nuther 500 years to go!
Milwaukees Best!?
That was the shit we bought when we couldn’t afford beer.
Old Joe’s Plan B – “C’mon man, Pop a cap”. As in bottle cap, not shoot someone. Old Joe’s old school.
Milwaukees Best!?
Cheap beer? Hell I can still smell Old German and Strohs farts!!
… and Iron City!
OMG that shit wuz nasty!
Harry
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 17:27 AT 5:27 PM
“anounamis – Oh I dunno…. those old tin oil cans are probably rotted into rusty dust in the landfill by now whereas the 1 and 5 quart plastic containers have a nuther 500 years to go!”
…if they just sat on the shelf a bit too long, the treated cardboard body got spongy enough that the can would collapse when you tried to ram the spout into it, lipping open in an unpredicable location around either the tin lid or tin bottom where it interfaced, spewing oil until you figured out which end was leaking and turned it up, only to find you HAD poked a hole in the top as well so the oil was coming out no matter WHAT you did.
…good times, goooood times…
SNS Yeah – you never worried about how fresh the oil was. How fresh the cans were was the issue!
So . . . Milwaukee’s Best kills fetuses?
Marooned
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 18:26 AT 6:26 PM
“So . . . Milwaukee’s Best kills fetuses?”
…probably involved in MAKING a lot of them, too…
After my dad died, we found a few old Shell oil cans in the cardboard containers in his garage leftover from his Shell gas station. I think my brother still has them for some reason or another. And yes, those cardboard oil cans were a pain in the ass and messy when opened with the oil can filler spout.
If you ever get a chance to go to Don Garlits’ Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala Florida (which is awesome, by the way) make sure you check out the Kendall Oil exhibit. Two of the Kendall GT1 Nitro Grade oil cans were donated by my family. My brother used that oil in his Harley and left two cans in his stuff when he died. They were from the 1980s and it was the same oil Don used in his dragster.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/QjcxyVXCMkWCdXZWMKwRNAfxtomouopMGhBtBCqyDpw/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRp/YS1jZG4udHJpcGFk/dmlzb3IuY29tL21l/ZGlhL3Bob3RvLW8v/MDEvZTgvOTIvMTkv/ZG9uLWdhcmxpdHMt/bXVzZXVtLW9mLmpw/Zw
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Jethro, do you remember the ones with the little slots on either side of the rivet, and you could break off the tab put it in a slot, pull it back, and shoot the ring about thirty feet?
“Brew 102…the beer that made Milwaukee jealous.”
Can we dispose of these leftist rolls by drowning them in a 55-gallon drum of 30 weight motor oil?
trolls
SNS
FRIDAY, 12 JULY 2024, 16:18 AT 4:18 PM
“I would use a knife to poke it into the can, then just try not to drink it later.”
…Im quoting myself because I should have added a skill most young men develop at parties, which is to drink in a way that foreign matter such as pop tops pushed into the can are automatically detected and rejected at the lips. This is an important life skill that I suspect exists even today, due to the strong possibility you pick up the wrong can or bottle at the party, swig without looking, and discover youre quaffing from a beverage container that had been repurposed into the community ashtray.
Or worse someone had spat a great big loogie of chewing tobacco in it. There is nothing more gross than this.
We had another driver who was an absolute slob who would leave his styrofoam coffee cup full of spat out chewing tobacco in the cup holder inside the van when he finished his route. He damn near got his ass kicked for that till my boss fired him.