# The Razor Wars, because you'll believe anything... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719 "2005-09-15T03:21:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/1 "2005-09-15T03:21:49Z")
Okay here’s a [fictional article from The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930) from last year… And here’s a [**real** article from today…](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9340767/) ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/2 "2005-09-15T03:29:37Z")
Oh now, come on. It’s not April 1st. I refuse to put anything with 5 blades (plus one on the back!) anywhere near my face. A twin blade razor was good enough for my dad and it’s good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/3 "2005-09-15T03:33:34Z")
Oh, that is _priceless_… Anyone else remembering the old Mad magazine razor competition, featuring sich breakthroughs as the Laser Razor? [sub]I have to go and have a shave now…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/4 "2005-09-15T03:37:03Z")
Where’s the second, lathering aloe strip? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/5 "2005-09-15T03:57:49Z")
I don’t want the razor wars to stop until we have something that requires a 220VAC power source. Not that I would use it - I shave with a clipper. I call my styling “PermaShadow”. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/6 "2005-09-15T04:40:08Z")
That reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live or MadTV skit that went something like that. “One blade to cut the top layer of hair. One to pick up the rest of the hair. One for…we don’t even know why.” -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/7 "2005-09-15T05:13:12Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Anyone else remembering the old Mad magazine razor competition, featuring sich breakthroughs as the Laser Razor? > . I remember that. There was also an SNL skit from the early years about a 3 blade razor. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/8 "2005-09-15T05:14:09Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > I don’t want the razor wars to stop until we have something that requires a 220VAC power source. > > Not that I would use it - I shave with a clipper. I call my styling “PermaShadow”. 220, that’s nothing, mine’s three phase, and I go climb the pole and hook it to the primary side of the transformer. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/9 "2005-09-15T05:41:33Z")
Bah, all of you. Mine is a straight-edged tactical knife. Power of understatement. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/10 "2005-09-15T05:41:57Z")
I will buy this the first day I see it, probably. The power version. Because I’m a loser like that. (Or because I love my M3Power. I don’t think that more blades=better, I just think that the mach 3 blades are more comfortable in general.) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/11 "2005-09-15T05:42:20Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > 220, that’s nothing, mine’s three phase, and I go climb the pole and hook it to the primary side of the transformer. Psh. Mine requires its own standby generator set. ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/12 "2005-09-15T06:36:56Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Oh, that is _priceless_… > > Anyone else remembering the old Mad magazine razor competition, featuring sich breakthroughs as the Laser Razor? Oh, I remember that! With the flamethrower razor, with cooling freon spray afterwards, and the nuclear razor, and… Err, anyway. It was funny. As for my own razing needs, I ended up with the handle to my ex’s Venus women’s razor, so I just buy blades for that. Works fine. And if I ever need to shave my legs I guess I’ll be all set. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/13 "2005-09-15T07:47:59Z")
If this goes on, in another ten years it will be difficult to distinguish between a men’s razor cartridge and a cheese grater. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/14 "2005-09-15T08:23:20Z")
The razor of the future will have upwards of seven thousand blades and will be too heavy to lift; with the device securely bolted to a customised concrete foundation, the user will shave by moving his lathered face back and forth across the sea of tiny glinting blades. The advertising slogan?: “A shave so close, you can see the white gleam of exposed jawbone and the fresh splash of bright, arterial blood” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/15 "2005-09-15T12:04:24Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > Okay here’s a [fictional article from The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930) from last year… > > And here’s a [**real** article from today…](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9340767/) I hereby award The Onion three Cool Points for predicting this, and the Gillette corporation twelve Cool Points if they were inspired by the Onion article. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/16 "2005-09-15T13:33:01Z")
> [@MSNBC](#): > > Fusion is the first entirely new men’s razor system launched by Gillette since Mach3. Sweet zombie Jesus, you can’t just buy a f\*\*\*ing razor anymore, nowadays it’s a “razor system”. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/17 "2005-09-15T13:34:48Z")
You know, I just went back to twin-blade from triple-blade ladies disposable razors. Why? Because I kept knicking the shite outta my legs! More is not always better. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/18 "2005-09-15T13:36:54Z")
I’ve just completed installation of my Schick[sup]TM[/sup] Wall. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/19 "2005-09-15T13:40:50Z")
Just wait until the Gilette Wall Power comes out… vibrating wall of blades! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719/20 "2005-09-15T13:44:11Z")
Anybody remeber way back in the 70’s SNL had a fake commercial advertising the new 3 bladed razor? They even mocked up a pretty good animation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-razor-wars-because-youll-believe-anything/321719.md?page=2)