The Razor Blade Conspiracy genre: Tongue-In-Cheek
Call me a conspiracy theorist...but am I alone in the belief that each time they add an additional blade to a razor system, they notch the blades in the older versions so that it tears your face off and forces you to buy the newer, more expensive model? What I don't understand is how stacking blade after blade is ultimately going to achieve a closer shave...I know, I know...the theory is that the first blade lifts the hair and the following blade(s) then cut it closer. Are we to believe that each blade lifts each hair for the following blade to once again cut it shorter? I'm waiting for them to introduce a razor system with a built-in tweezer to hold each hair for proper cutting by the built-in robo-barber. In the meantime, I am introducing my new fifteen blade razor. It comes with one caveat...if the space between your nose and the top of your upper lip doesn't exceed an inch and a half, you will be forced to wear a Hitleresque moustache. Now that ought to give conspiracy theorists plenty to run with.
Daniel DiRito | April 4, 2006 | 4:24 PM
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1 On April 4, 2006 at 10:06 PM, Ted wrote —
So true. Something I think about every time I go buy razor blades for my Gilette Mach 3 or whatever it is called. Of course, each time I tell myself that I'm going to pick up a good old fashioned straight razor. Especially funny because the other day I ran across a similar post about endless numbers of razor blades over at Mike Davidson's blog.
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