Why are man hole covers round?

FightinMike January 17, 2008, 2:12pm 41

how is a 2 man team going to move a manhole cover if it were say square?

round things roll.

EDIT: Wow there is a actually a wiki on this question with 9 different answers.

need a coupler

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