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Default I can't believe I never knew this

sometime in the recent past The Joneses posted this:
> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Wilson wrote:
>>> Perhaps this has been everywhere by now, but it was news to me & thought
>>> I'd share it.
>>>
>>> Subject: Fw: I can't believe I never knew this
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>>> A friend sent me this. It was news to me! My foil
>>> had this, but my waxed paper did not.
>>>
>>> Don't you all even try and act like you all ready
>>> knew this either.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.

>> Nyah, nyah, I found out last year, amazed me too.

>
> I just can't believe I'm over 21 now and just hearing it.
> (swearing softly and nearly ladylike)
> Edrena
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>

This is a better kept secret than where the WMD's were/are/weren't. And I am
over 21 too ;-)

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