You've probably seen the advertising for the Gillette Mach-3 - the amazing 3-blade shaving system that all real men must use! What will Gillette do next? Four blades? Five? Twenty Seven? Naaah! - we feel they'll go for gold and up the stakes real high. Here's a sneak preview of a news item that may appear when . . .

GILLETTE INTRODUCES THE MAX-100

Blade blade company Gillette, who have been steadily adding to the number of blades on their shaving razors ever since they began with a measly single one, have finally cracked the three-figure mark.
The latest offering, the Max-100, comes with a whopping one hundred individual blades. Weighing about 8 kilograms, this new age product comes with a razor, one 100-blade cartridge, and a set of barbells for you to develop some muscles before you can actually shave with it.

"It gives you the smoothest shave possible!" said a beaming company spokesman, saying exactly the same words that he had said when the company first introduced a twin blade model over ten years ago.

The shaving set has been priced at Rs.3,750/- , which anyone with half a brain would term expensive. (but people with half a brain wouldn't want to shave with a 100 blade cartridge, and hence have never formed a major part of the company's clientele anyway.)

However, customer feedback has not been uniformly good. Many users complained that the new model makes it increasingly difficult to wash off the little hairs and suds that get jammed into the back of the cartridge while shaving.

"Some wimps have also complained that the Max-100 is too heavy. Hah! Any loser who can't handle a mere 8 kilos probably doesn't have any facial hair worth mentioning anyway!", sniggered the spokesman, adding that the company only cared about real men - those with enough money and enough immaturity to buy their products.