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Who ever looks at the end of the box?; An e-mail I got today.
Topic Started: Feb 28 2009, 01:43 PM (290 Views)
George K
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Finally
I certainly don't.

Was this something we were supposed to learn from our Mom's?????
I can't believe it's been there all this time.

I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for myself.
Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil box?
You know when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box.
Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over.
The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.
Well, I would like to share this with you.
Yesterday I went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it,
and looked at the end of the box. And written on the end it said, Press here to lock end.
Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place.
How long has this little locking tab been there?
I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too.
I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too!
I can't count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out,
when I was trying to cover something up.
I'm sharing this with my friends.
I hope I'm not the only person that didn't know about this.
I know you're going to go and check your boxes, so go ahead!

YES, I GOT UP AND LOOKED!

IT'S THERE AS PLAIN AS CAN BE!
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I just checked, it's there!
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
All these years, I never knew. :mellow:
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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George K
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Feb 28 2009, 02:17 PM
All these years, I never knew. :mellow:
Exactly! I never, EVER knew. Now, all those diagonal tears are thing of the past!

(did you really look at the box? I did!)
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Riley
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HOLY CARP!!!
I just learned that a few months ago.
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dolmansaxlil
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HOLY CARP!!!
Well, I looked at the box of saran and the box of parchment (I'm out of foil) and neither had that. I'm going to have to look at the grocery!
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jon-nyc
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Someone posted that a few months ago here or at wtf. Before then i didnt know.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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NAK
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Most. Useful. Thread. Ever. :D

(I haven't checked yet. The kitchen's upstairs, I'm downstairs/lazy.)
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QuantumIvory
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I'll be a son of a b****, they really are there. I don't know how many times I've yanked that stupid roll out and all the foil unravels. Thanks, George. (Of course, I'll tell Mrs. QI that I discovered it all on my own.) :)

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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
George K
Feb 28 2009, 02:19 PM
(did you really look at the box? I did!)
I did. They're there!
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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jgoo
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I've known that was there for some time now. Pretty useful, huh.
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