What do you folks do with those empty tubs?

If the tubs are the wide ones, like Castle Forbes, you are welcome to send them to me.

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to answer my own question.

Reply to my own question.

After wading through 4 separate dictionaries and not finding a satisfactory answer I gathered
all the useless information that I gleaned and came up with a probably useless guess.

FRANKEN named after Mary Shelly's monster, Frankenstein, who turned against his master.

So, too, a Franken is a construction or creation that turns against its creator.

So I will not make any more single bars of shaving soap mix, without its consent, with another.


Beware wet shavers there may be a demon lurking in that formerly empty soap tub!

Mickey

Chris,

I used to repair old cameras for a hobby before arthritis fired me.

I found egg cartons to be very handy for stashing little odds and ends.
The clear ones are good as one need not open every carton to see what it holds in its 12 pits.
They also help make sure none of the eggs are cracked before you stick your thumb through it.

Well, I ended up repurposing that Barrister & Mann Cheshire Shaving Soap tub in a way I never imagined.  I shall be going to Scotland (with a four day sojourn in Milan, Italy) for almost a month soon and packing my meds has always been easy, except for the Fish Oil capsules.  They are large and if needed for more than a week or so, storage becomes a problem.  Then I remembered the B&M Cheshire tub.  I was amazed at how easily the top and side labels peeled off because after running water over them, having them covered in lather on my sloppier lather making days ( ), and just the length of time they have been stuck on there I was sure it would be nearly impossible to remove them.  However, once removed, I used my label maker to make a simple descriptive label and it all worked out perfectly.

Those orange coloured capsules look like candies good enough to eat.

I pity the poor soul who pops a few in his mouth expecting a citrusy treat.

The screams and bellows of his anguish will never, ever be beat.

Those orange coloured capsules look like candies  good enough to eat.

I pity the poor soul who pops a few in his mouth expecting a citrusy treat.

The screams and bellows of his anguish will never, ever be beat.

LOL! You're on a roll, Mickey!

Thanks, Freddy.

I don't want to roll

I can't fall asleep.

I'll give it another try.

G'nite.

Reply to my own question.

After wading through 4 separate dictionaries  and not finding a satisfactory answer I gathered
all the useless information that I gleaned and came up with a probably useless guess.

FRANKEN named after Mary Shelly's monster, Frankenstein, who turned against his master.

So, too, a Franken is a construction  or creation that turns against its creator.

So I will  not make any more single bars of shaving soap mix, without its consent, with another.


Beware wet shavers there may be a demon lurking in that formerly empty soap tub!

Mickey

I think the Frankenstein reference derives more from the fact that the monster was cobbled together from the various bits of several different corpses than from the actual behaviour of the monster itself. Its been a while since I've read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and I can't recall if the monster was actually composed of pieces of different corpses or if thats just an ex post facto Hollywood interpretation.

I suspect Frankenstein was assembled of
improperly mated parts of various contributors.
Neither his legs nor his arms seem to have much flexibility.
His neck is quite rigid. Can you imagine how fearful he must be when he wants to cross the road and can not look both ways?

Poor guy. Little wonder he was angry.

I'll bet Mary Shelly flunked anatomy.