Thread: The Truth About The Barber's Notch

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Lastly, although I would love to visit 1850 Sheffield, I wouldn't want to live there

What with the tainted (by our standards) food, lack of general hygiene, and the fact that our immune systems are not adapted to all the nasty bugs that were going round in those days... I doubt you'd really enjoy that visit.
Maybe you could visit it in one of those biohazard suits. But then you'd freak out the natives so that would not be ideal either.

Originally Posted by Bruno

What with the tainted (by our standards) food, lack of general hygiene, and the fact that our immune systems are not adapted to all the nasty bugs that were going round in those days... I doubt you'd really enjoy that visit.
Maybe you could visit it in one of those biohazard suits. But then you'd freak out the natives so that would not be ideal either.

I'd suffer through it if for no other reason than to load up on a bunch of NOS 9/8 W&B babars-use-only razors for shillings on the pound

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I'd suffer through it if for no other reason than to load up on a bunch of NOS 9/8 W&B babars-use-only razors for shillings on the pound

Personally, I'd stock up on paintings and other things of famous artists. Maybe buy shares of companies or bonds.
As much as I like razors, a box full of W&B 9/8s would not allow me to live the life of the filthy rich.

I'll bring back a 9/8 W&B in ivory, next time I visit 1850 sheffield.

Originally Posted by Bruno

a box full of W&B 9/8s would not allow me to live the life of the filthy rich.

Lee, I guess you and me are just going to have to settle for filthy

I am starting to think Bruno has gone mad - you can't shave with a painting!

Having lived in the UK for several years and having many good friends there, I think I can safely say without causing undue offence to anyone from that Scepter'd Isle, that it would be highly unusual that someone, somewhere, did not record the hows and whys of the notch. The British record everything, religiously and compulsively, particularly from that era. Samuel Pepys recorded his gaseous ejections, for God's sake! If a man wrote down and categorised his farts, someone somewhere would have written down something about the barber's notch. It is just that no one has found it yet - of that I am convinced.

James.