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"N Cook" wrote:

Come 11/9 or even
9/11, if you must, we all had to find out what on earth box cutters were.

That one baffles me. I had never, ever heard those things referred to as
box cutters. Everyone I know calls them "skil knives," "Skil" being a
brand name. I bet Skil raised a fit and invented the term "box cutter"
that very day.