In all seriousness, there actually might be something to the claim that the edge straightens out with time. I understand that the translation from German reads, "growing" but I interpret that as "straightening." I've been playing around with not stropping a razor (a Dovo, naturally) every time between shaves. I've been able to go several shaves without stropping, sort of like with a cartridge razor and the edge does seem to be sharper than at the end of the previous shave. Furthermore when the razor started pulling a few rubs of my thumb over the edge as suggested by Dovo allowed for a good shave. Those folks at Dovo apparently know what they're talking about!

After a few days I do need to go back to the strop, though. I find stropping too entertaining to try to minimize using one but I find it good to know that it isn't essential for every shave.