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    Affable Chap Nickelking's Avatar
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    Default Grandmas response to straight shaving

    Yesterday I told my beloved grandma that I was going to start using a straight razor. She responded "My father used to use a straight razor, I know that because he used a strop. My mother also used a strop and it really hurt!"

    I just had to share that... The End.

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    Yep. All the old folks around here remember the strop doing double duty.

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    I have heard all it took was just one strop spanking experience to cure even the stubborn ones

    Cheers
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    I'm not that old, but I darn well remember the duty it did in the end!!!
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    Thinking about standing in memory...

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    When I got my old 1940 strop from ebay I had to try it out on my niece & nephew. I told them to remember this and tell their grandkids. Now one of their favorite games is to sneak up on the other with the strop and POW!

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    I heard that discipline is a good method
    of keeping the strop supple...

    - Scott

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    Quote Originally Posted by sebell View Post
    I heard that discipline is a good method
    of keeping the strop supple...

    - Scott


    Indeed the strop is coated with all the essential oils necessary during this activity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amyn View Post


    Indeed the strop is coated with all the essential oils necessary during this activity.
    I would be worried about the other substances that might coat the strop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fallout55 View Post
    When I got my old 1940 strop from ebay I had to try it out on my niece & nephew. I told them to remember this and tell their grandkids. Now one of their favorite games is to sneak up on the other with the strop and POW!

    New use for Tony's practice strops.
    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kees View Post
    New use for Tony's practice strops.
    Why do you think they are called practice strops? Muahaha
    No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero

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