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Opening a can of worms

Posted by John on December 11, 2000

In Reply to: Opening a can of worms posted by ESC on June 07, 2000

I heard that in the 1st world war, soldiers who were missing their girlfriends, used a can of worms! This would predate the USA derivation. (sorry about the awefulness of this!)

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