The danger of shaving back when was not a joke. Henry Thoreau's brother John nicked himself with a razor & died soon after, for example.
What? Infected blade? Cut the jugular?
Little tidbit for you guys:
"Deaths popularly attributed to Tutankhamun's curse
The tomb was opened on 29 November 1922.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, financial backer of the excavation team who was present at the tomb's opening, died on 5 April 1923 after a mosquito bite became infected; he died 4 months and 7 days after the opening of the tomb."
"On 19 March 1923, Carnarvon suffered a severe mosquito bite which became infected by a razor cut. On 5 April, he died in the Continental-Savoy Hotel in Cairo.[20] Fueled by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's suggestion that Carnarvon's death had been caused by "elementals" created by Tutankhamun's priests to guard the royal tomb;"
Can we make the forum script automatically redirect people to this thread if they use the term "gel tips" in their posts?
Not sure what gel tips have to do with anything. They're a wonderful property to find in a knot.