New use for dykes

[Jethro]

Best thing to open beers with is the seat belt buckle edge.

[Billy Ricks]

Best thing to open beers with is the seat belt buckle edge.

While driving.

[Wingnut1]

Dykes work well for removing cotter pins too. 1 pair of dykes will usually get it down in no time. Also good for cutting the excess string trimer line.

Can open a beer with a screw driver in a pinch too or use the edge of a counter top or workbench.

[Guest]

I thought they were for cleaning rugs.

[Hammered]

These things rock. I made mine outta 410 stainless. Lord knows where I put it last though.

[Wingnut1]

I thought they were for cleaning rugs.

I don't understand the comment, what's a rug or last time you seen one

[argonsagas]

I thought they were for cleaning rugs.

Still true, but I believe the language has gone upscale, and now the "rugs" are called carpets.

I really cannot speak to the quality of work, but I doubt my grandmother would accept anything she might have called "a lick and a promise".

Frankly, I would never have thought of using them to open beer...

[gbw]

Put one of these covers on your i-telephone and you won't need a pair of dykes to open your beer

http://gizmodo.com/5821427/open-a-beer-with-the-opena-iphone-4-case

I think I heard about this from TheCafeKid

[silverhorse47]

I don't get it, but I'm sure it's meant to be offensive. How sad, on an otherwise fine forum.
S.

[Guest]

Wattaya call Eskimo Lesbians?

KLONDYKES !

As far as opening beers, just about anything...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZNduJ4epl8

I just went out and used the centerstand on my GS to open a beer.
Gonna have to video that one.

[gremlin]

put beer bottle top on edge of table strike with hand. it opens. never needed a opener.

[silverhorse47]

I usually just get my man to do that thing with the table top, for me. *S*

[Roger P.]

Bah! Once you try crimping pliers you'll never look back.

[Guest]

I use my tungsten carbide wedding band or my war amps key chain. Don't know what the keychain is made of but it is tough as all hell.

[MadCapsule]

Depending on the shape of the bottle, you can also use another unopened bottle to open a beer bottle. Just choke up on the neck of one bottle and then turn the other bottle upside-down. Slip the edge of the bottle cap on the upside-down bottle under the edge of the cap on the right-side up bottle and use the index finger of your bottom hand as a leverage point. Lever the top bottle downward and it will pry the cap off of just the bottom bottle, if you do it correctly.

Pro tips:

- You may need to align the "teeth" of the bottle caps so that they grab each other to get this technique to work properly.

- If this is your only means of opening your beverages, you'll end up with one lonely soldier, unable to join his barley-brothers in the fizzy afterlife, at some point.

- Make sure to shock-and-awe everyone with this trick early; it becomes increasingly more difficult to do without making a mess as the night wears on.