In message <66H8KDHmBReIFweT@chris.mcmillan>, chris mcmillan 
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>Growl.  Who's daft idea was it to invent a toothpaste top which isn't 
>screw on but push on, and which no matter how hard I try gets gunged up 
>without even trying.  And the pump type definitely fight back: usually 
>by refusing to work at all.
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The push-down types are a floppy top, attached by a little strip to a 
short plastic tube - which itself unscrews, just like the old thing that 
looked like a cop's hat. Though some of the more modern ones might not 
be like this.
-- 
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