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shaving with dinosaurs: Barbasol's starring role in Jurassic Park

"We all set for the Super Bowl commercial?" The year is 1993 and no one inside the Barbasol offices carries a cell phone. The office...

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Aug 23, 2023
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shaving with dinosaurs: Barbasol's starring role in Jurassic Park

"We all set for the Super Bowl commercial?" The year is 1993 and no one inside the Barbasol offices carries a cell phone. The office...

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the future is overrated

Twenty-four hours before our son was born, my wife bought me a $200 pair of sunglasses. She bought herself a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt and...

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