Inventor of the Six Pack Plastic Thingy?

The Wiki for Six Pack Rings includes 2 references to The Straight Dope.

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Yeah, to perfect a product like that, you need to empty a lot of beer cans.

Gotta love the picture of the 12-pack of Fosters on that page. :smiley:

That would be 60,000 cans of beer. Even if I started from 2006 I don’t think I could drink that many. :smiley:

But one of those appears to be mislabeled; it’s a YouTube video, not a link to a column or message board.