Thread: What is a barber's notch for?

Originally Posted by Lynn

One day when our time machine is working properly, we will venture back to when they were invented and find the true answer. Until then, see what you can come up with.

My time machine will be completed next July. It will have an ignition switch that is activated by a barber's notch razor shaped key. When I go back in time I will lose my key, it will be found by a barber who will mail it to Wade & Butcher who will love the shape so much that they will start using the design for their razors.

So, you have me to thank for the barber's notch, but you don't need to thank me till the end of July.

I am relieved to put an end to the speculation.

Oh, and could someone remind me to carry more than one razor?

Originally Posted by Utopian

Oh, and could someone remind me to carry more than one razor?

Don't forget to carry more than one razor... :P

Originally Posted by Utopian

Oh, and could someone remind me to carry more than one razor?

Come back to *NOW* in time from the future and remind yourself... Just remember to do it when you get to then.

Oh, and just to stay on topic, I find it so interesting, anthropologically speaking, that we as humans develop arts and knowledge and information, then allow them to become extinct in such a relatively short time. The barber's notch, granted, is a very minor thing, but straight razors as a whole make me think of this... We were so close to the entire practice dying out. Fortunately it seems to be reviving.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Oh, and could someone remind me to carry more than one razor?

Can't you go back in time and remind yourself?

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Can't you go back in time and remind yourself?

Of course not. I'd have to go forward in time to remind myself, but I can't do that because the machine won't be done till July, and when I go back in time I'm going to lose the key. That's already a historical fact, as evidence by the existence of the barber's notch razors!

Originally Posted by stickwhistler

I'm not a monk, even though I might have a few dirty habits.

Really? I have nun.