List Statistics on Opening Beer Cans

[Lewis Shadoff]

Here is the history of the thread:

1 Original message that the beer can has been opened

14 to share similar experiences of opening beer cans and how the beer can
could have been opened differently

7 to caution about the dangers of opening beer cans

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about opening beer cans

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar of flames

6 to argue over whether it's "beercan" or "beer can"

... another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is
"container"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "beer can"
is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about beer cans and to please take
this discussion to a beer can forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use beer cans
and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 to debate which method of opening beer cans is superior, where to
buy the best beer cans, what brand of beer is best for this opening
technique and what brands are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different beer cans

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this
group which makes beer cans relevant to this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot
handle the beer can controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on 'beer can' before posting questions
about beer can"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start
it all over again.

Lewis Shadoff
Lake Jackson, TX
'97 200SX SE-R, Level 10 Auto, HotShot turbo
http://www.brazosport.cc.tx.us/~lshadoff/turbo/