re: "Media Rate":

It applies to CDs and DVDs and CDROMs, but not back issues of magazines. Be sure to declare them to be "books". I found this out the hard way, by being inadvertantly honest.

Who sends anything but books?

You can still get a sack of Bic razors (or even less expensive equivalent brands) cheap. The refills on the high-end razors are a bit sharper - but the disposables are perfectly servicable.

$2 razor blades and $4 coffees. And soon 39 cent stamps. Bah.

oj, Here's what I tell my husband when he reaches for the cut-rate brand. Save your little economies for other things. Go with top quality when you're scraping the face we love with a very sharp steel object.

$4.00 coffee … and in a paper cup.

Glad you're back home safely.

What the heck are you doing buying razors!!!

gillete supreme. they are pricey but do a very good job and last almost 6 weeks.

O.B.:

the Ball and Chain dispatched me.

erp:

One of the reasons I haven't shaved in 16 years and have had a beard nearly continuously since I turned 17 is that even with Damascus steel I pay so little attention when shaving that it takes several hours for the bleeding to stop.

"...the rabbi won't do the service, not because the spouse is also a male, which is permissible, but because he's not Jewish."

Mixed metaphors?

There are altenatives, for example the Epilady.

Which one will smash the cup?

I try to explain this to She Who Is Perfect In All Ways but she thinks that there is some intrinsic good in physically leaving the house at least once a day. I can remember when I walked a mile in -80°F windchill to hook up with my online community. Being able to surf from the comfort of my office means foraging is the only reason left to go out.

"Who sends anything but books?"

I was unloading about a dozen cubic feet of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Astounding, Fantastic and others from the 1950s through the 1980s. Sold 'em all, including one batch to Japan where the shipping cost more than magazines themselves.

This thread reads like some forgotten Beckett script.

Somehow, 'tragic' doesn't cover it.

Is it time for Orrin's yerly shearing already? Come summer, the Doctor Missus has to shave Orrin's belly so he doesn't get overheated.
There are two things I don't scrimp on: toilet paper and razor blades. Sure the Mach 3 is expensive, but it's a damn fine shave and the blades last a good six weeks before they need replacing.
I've been thinking that "1984" would make a great ad for the Mach 3. The part where Winston's neighbor is mooching razor blades off him and Winston says, "I've been using the same blade for six weeks, brother!" He could then turn to the camera and say, "But since I use the Mach 3 system, I'm still getting a clean close shave! Mach 3: it's doubleplus good!" Suprisingly, Gillette hasn't returned my calls.

Governor:

Very good. Do you think that idea will work for your toilet paper ad?

Best toilet paper on the face of the planet used to be found in L.L. Bean's men's room in Freeport. 'Twas worth the drive from Portland just to shoplift a roll or two. This was twenty years ago, of course, and they've probably long since switched to recycled Taiwanese corn husks.