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Word of the Every So Often
felid: (noun) (pronounced: fee-lid) a member of the cat family (Felidae); a wild cat. That’s our little felid. She’s perfectly harmless unless she attacks you.
Today's Holiday
Today, December 2, is National Safety Razor Day. People have been shaving since prehistoric times, when they used things like sharpened clam shells to scrape the stubble off their faces. When metals were invented, they used those. Pretty much, though, early razors were all the same, looking very much like the more modern straight razor – a big straight-edged knife. One of the biggest problems with straight razors was that they needed to be constantly sharpened, or “stropped,” which involved rubbing it on a leather strap. And I supposed you’d get good at using one, but that’s a really sharp blade, and that’s my neck. It just doesn’t seem very… safe. It wasn’t until 1908 that King Camp Gillette, founder of the Gillette Company, began mass-producing safety razor blades – a two-sided blade that fit into a handle and could be replaced when it got dull. Many older homes (such as mine) featured a slot in the bathroom wall where you could dispose of your used blades. They filled up the space in the wall between the studs, making for some really interesting finds when remodeling your house. By the way, Styptic Pencils – a pencil-like device that used alum to stop bleeding after nicking oneself while shaving – was first introduced in 1908, at the same time of the safety razor.
These date back to around 1925
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STUFF
Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem, PA
Oh, little town of Bethlehem,
how still we see thee lie.
No workers’ feet
fill empty streets;
no smoke stacks cloud the skies.
Through foreign competition
and greedy corporate gains,
a few jobs lost,
well that’s the cost.
We’ll lock the gates with chains.
Oh, little town of Bethlehem,
no presents under trees.
No Christmas feast,
you’ve lost your lease.
You’re left outside to freeze.
Please think us not uncaring
when of your plight we hear.
We just get annoyed
with the unemployed;
it ruins our holiday cheer.
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