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Old Mon Nov 18, 2002, 09:25am
Gee Gee is offline
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"Can of Corn" comes from the old small local grocery stores where they had all the can goods lined up on the top shelves.

To get the can down the grocer would use a long stick to tip it off the shelf and then catch it. I guess they sold a lot of corn in those days. G.
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