Originally published at: Meet Jobbe Wijnen, a "pull-tab archeologist" | Boing Boing
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I’m so old that I managed to collect one of the original-style pull tabs, by embedding it in my arm after it was somehow lodged between the panels of a giant wooden playground slide
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I remember when pull tabs transitioned from the kind that yanks off a portion of the top of the can, typically left as litter on the ground, to the kind that shoves a portion of the can’s top into the beverage. This latter approach seems questionably hygenic to me.
I guess the beverage tends to leak around and rinse the top of the can when drinking anyway.
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We used to rip the ring part of the tab off and using the spring tension of the tongue part shoot it across the room. Fun times.
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growing up in texas, we called those old-style ring-and-tongue type pop tops “Aggie class rings”.
(with apologies to @danimagoo who IIRC attended that esteemed university, A&M).
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Occurs to me songs like Buffet’s Margaritaville contain lyrics that will be misunderstood by countless future generations.
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Ah, not some kind of instant archeologist, like a Emergency Medical Hologram.
“What is the nature of your archeological mystery?”
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Interesting. I never heard them called that before, but I grew up in North Texas, practically in Oklahoma, and people didn’t seem to talk about A&M or tell Aggie jokes that much there.
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