Article on shaving in today's Washington Post-and they mention B&B

[jzuzphreek]

Best comment from the article. Maybe the best article comment I've ever read:

oldbrownhat

Well, I doubt that anyone seriously believes in-house reports like those done by Gillette, except their own Marketing Dept., who are paid to.

However, as some have posted here, these new-fangled contraptions can indeed provide a good shave. "Different strokes for different folks" - literally. I like fine tools, and The Old Device feels lilke a precision tool in my hands.

Whether we prefer the latest multi-blade Landfill Special from Gillette's "sophisticated laboratory" (cough, cough...) or, as Contrarian aesthetes, we favor the weighty, all-metal touch of Tradition, we certainly have it better than in Shakespeare's day, when he might well have been writing of the trials of shaving with an open razor instead of the Battle of Agincourt:

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.

[RonPac]

More blades = better shave....sounds like a "Mad Invention"PL_72_shave_2.jpg

[Masterkova]

If you're in the US, i believe they get your info from your Selective Service sign-up.

Wow. I hope this isn't true. Turning a civic duty into a corporate marketing promotion is rather disgusting. This should not be legal.

[Jefebadskin]

I'm not nostalgic, wasn't looking to save money, but as someone who has to shave every day or grow a beard, shaving was a failure. I had ingrowns, bumps, allergic reactions (rashes). I switched from Mach 3 to DE, those problems disappeared. I don't need a p&g scientist to prove anything.

[joshuastar]

Wow. I hope this isn't true. Turning a civic duty into a corporate marketing promotion is rather disgusting. This should not be legal.

That's what I was told when I got my gillette razor when I turned 18.

Here's my story:
Right after high school, I moved to a different state. Once in my new state, I sent in my Selective Service card, and got a new driver's license. I was living with my grandparents and so I didn't sign up for anything else like magazines or internet service, or utilities. nothing else. a few weeks later, I got my "free razor" in the mail. It wasn't forwarded from my last address. Gillette knew where I was and that I'd turned 18.

The only way they got this info is from Selective Service or the state of Georgia's DMV. I asked around and was told Selective Service.

Maybe that's a way for the government to offset spending costs...they sell address/birthday databases.