At 03:18 PM Thursday 4/24/2008, Dave Land wrote:
>On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
>
> >>>> What else is like this... endless "upgrades" to convince people
> >>>> that
> >> their
> >>>> perfectly good old product is obsolete?
> >
> >> The one that really gets me is razor blades.
> >
> >> Does anyone really need 5 blades vibrated by a small motor to shave?
> >> Is the new Gillette FusionPower Phenom with 5 blades and "onboard
> >> microchip for consistent power" that much better that the 4 blade
> >> model from last year or the 3 blade SensorExcel from a couple of
> >> years ago?
>
>This reminds me of two multi-bladed-razor bits of comedy:
>
>The first is a commercial by Philips for their Coolskin 2005 electric,
>which begins with a fake ad for "Quintippio" with 15 blades.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42I26tx2s
>
>The second is an Onion piece, "F*** Everything, We're Doing Five
>Blades",
>from the era when the idea of a razor with five blades was, in itself,
>comic:
>
> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930
>
>Dave
Also, there's "The Space Age Razor Race" in _MAD_
#208 (July 1979), p. 37-39, which in addition to
the Trac LXXVI with "seventy-six cutting edges on
a flexible head that will wrap around an entire
face and shave it close and clean in two or three
effortless moves" also introduced the
Quick-Freeze Razor, the Flame-Thrower Razor, the
Microwave Razor, the Laser Razor, the Neutron
Razor ("the ultimate razor of the space age . . .
like the great neutron bomb—kills whiskers but
doesn't harm face") and others . . .
Too Bad I Can't Attach The Article From The CD Maru
. . . ronn! :)
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