Hello shaving fiends

Well, Festus returned home this week. It turns out he had gone to Mexicali with Lulu Belle and was sleeping in the street with her and the local police arrested him and threw him in jail for vagrancy. He was released after a day or two but unfortunately Lulu Belle became a dish at the local chic Mexican Restaurant. Festus was beside himself losing his best friend in the whole wide world (if you know what I mean).

So, Cletus and I decided, to cheer him up we would go and buy him a new strop since he was using a piece of balsa wood with some Comet scouring powder on it.
So we packed up the 56 Chevy Apache and headed into town. I told Cletus we should buy a new strop from one of the fine vendors at SRP and he wanted a vintage one and we got into an argument and he left me stranded and I had to walk the 30 miles back to the ranch but I got even the next day because he saddled up old Diablo for a ride and I put a burr under the saddle and Diablo threw Cletus into next Sunday.

After a few stitches Cletus was as right as rain and considered us to be even.

He decided that last week he ran over a Raccoon and after taking the pelt he said he would tan it by urinating on it and then he would turn it into a strop for Festus. I told him it was too small and Raccoon wouldn’t make a good stropping medium. He got mad and threw me out of the house and had flattened all 4 tires on my 58 Ford Station wagon.

I’ll get even with him.

So the question for this week’s shaving brainbuster will require you to answer a few questions.
1-Do you think Raccoon will make a good strop? Heck if it does will any critter do?
2-Will it be too small at about 10 inches long? How long does a strop have to be?
3-Are you joshing me about urinating on the pelt to tan it?

So put your responses in a stamped self addressed envelope and mail them to the shaving brainbuster Grand Central Station Track 96 cistern 5 New York, New York and my friends Ben and Willard will be standing by to either judge them or eat them.

Be sure to check back on Wednesday for the answers so astounding an insane man wouldn’t believe them.