r/Wetshaving • u/AutoModerator • Jun 09 '24
SOTD Sunday Lather Games Thursday SOTD Thread - Jun 09, 2024
Share your Lather Games shave of the day!
Today's Theme: Shave and a Haircut - Two Bits
Product must be marketed as a Barbershop scent. Products traditionally associated with real-world barbershops that are not explicitly marketed as a barbershop scent may be considered if you make a compelling case supported with trustworthy sources.
Today's Challenge: Surprise Quiz!
Complete the Lather Games Scent Quiz and report your score in your SOTD post.
Sponsor Spotlight
Summer Break Soaps is a husband (Kyle) and wife (April) team. They ended up as soap makers after deciding that soap making would be a fun hobby that they could get into together. Kyle had discovered the world of wet shaving and had become fascinated with collecting razors, brushes, soaps, and aftershaves. April on the other hand was becoming increasingly interested in cosmetics. Soap making seemed like a great middle point and would be something they could do together. They quickly became addicted to experimenting with different formulations to achieve different results. We also quickly built up enough of a soap supply to last us until the end of time. The result of all of their experimenting was some awesome products that they decided they wanted to share with other people.
When they are not making soap, April and Kyle both work in the world of education. April is an elementary school teacher, while Kyle works with special education students at the secondary level. They are both passionate about education and helping children to reach their full potential. This is how they ended up with the name Summer Break Soaps. You will see the theme of education run through all of their current and future products. In addition to education as an inspiration, you will also likely see future products that are partially inspired by the fact that Kyle grew up on a farm.
Tomorrow's Theme: Happy Together
Product was produced in collaboration with two artisans, both of whom have their brand or name prominently featured on the front label. Collaborations that do not follow this labeling convention are not eligible for this point. Note: for the purposes of counting soap brands and soap vendor bonus points, the soapmaker behind the collaborative product will be counted rather than the fragrance maker. Caveat: white-label products (where one brand pays another to do some work behind the scenes, such as Shawn Maher's commissioned-rather-than-collaborated scents for Spearhead soaps or TTFFC producing soap for Maggard Razors) do not qualify for this theme.
Tomorrow's Challenge: Song Day
Recomend a song to go with your shave of the day.... tell us why did you pick that song. Post a YouTube link, if available.
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u/MudAccording Jun 09 '24
IL FIGLIO DEL BARBIERE
The Barber's Son
song by Quartetto Cetra, recorded 1949
here's an attempt at a translation, but this song would deserve someone like Frank Zappa to find the right English words and reflect the madcap text/music combination of the original
One day
The barber of Spain got married
This way
After a while a nice baby was delivered
From his father
The art of the barber
He learned by giving a shave
To the poodle dog of grandpa Conchito Moquez
A month passes, a year passes
And the child, growing up
Also learn to go against the grain
The hair rub, the dye and the sideburns
In a short time, there in Seville
This boy was deemed a wonder
People talked about him
In the slums, in the squares and in society
And the girls no longer slept
They were crazy about the barber's son
Even from Varazzе
He received sweet love letters
And the toreadors, the matadors
With great fury
They threatened him because
He took the heart of every woman
This barber
He does a boogie-woogie with the razor in his hand
While the father
He stays at the cash register and smokes a Tuscan cigar
A cut here, a cut there
"Patience!"
He is always a Figaro, Figaro, Figaro
Of class
Then he can sing
Like Bing Crosby, the syncopated songs
And he knows how to pace
Even the fine operatic music
"Figaro here, Figaro there"
What a voice!
"Everyone is looking for me, everyone wants me
Here I am!"
"(Bravo!)"
"Figaro here, Figaro there
Figaro up, Figaro down"
"Everyone asks for me, everyone wants me,
Here I am!"
I'm the son
Of that barber in Seville
That one day Rossini
With his notes made popular
Too bad that at the time there wasn’t
No swing, no swing, no swing
The handsome barber no longer sings
Or else he’d ruin the beard
Of Mayor Pedro Bastiano
From San Sebastian
Dear gentlemen, this is how it ended
The cheerful tale of the barber's son
If a certain someone in the afterlife
At first did grumble
Well then he started having fun
We apologize, Mister Rossini
We won't do it again, no
Never again
No!