ONE MUST REPENT
IN CHAS AND MIKE
LIES PUN-ISHMMENT
Posted on 11/05/2005 7:51:53 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Those Grand Old Burma Shave Road Signs
TRAINS DON'T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
'CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP
Burma Shave
SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
Burma Shave
DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave
DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED
NEXT IS NOT AMUSING
Burma Shave
BROTHER SPEEDER
LET'S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
Burma Shave
CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
AND MORE STEER
Burma Shave
SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS NOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
Burma Shave
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
Burma Shave
AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN'T IT?
Burma Shave
NO MATTER THE PRICE
NO MATTER HOW NEW
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
IN THE CAR IS YOU
Burma Shave
A GUY WHO DRIVES
A CAR WIDE OPEN
IS NOT THINKIN'
HE'S JUST HOPIN'
Burma Shave
AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY
Burma Shave
BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER'S CODE
Burma Shave
THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
Burma Shave
CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE.
Burma Shave
And my all time favorite:
PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
Burma Shave
Do these bring back any old memories?
Thanks for the memories.
Nice and smooth
like a waxed zuccini
are women who wear
a low cut bikini
Burma-Shave.
Memories. I would give anything to transport today's young people to those years for just a little while- long enough for them to "get it"..
Men with wiskers
under their noses
ought to kiss
like eskimos
I've been thru all the hell life has to offer and I've learned one hell of a lot! I am grateful of the years my parents and the lifestyle of the 40s and the 50's.
I remember well the Burma Shave signs in the 40's. Easier to read when you're traveling 35 mph on the highway!
Food rationings. Gas rationings. Tin cans collections. Boy Scout and Cub Scout. Movies on a 25 cents allowance. Washed dishes for Mom while she was working. Yeah, I did all that.
And I am totally sick of the stupid liberals and their brainless thinking!
I can go on and on but I had better not use up Jim Robinson's bandwidth.
book on the subject (had at one point)
The Verse by the Side of the Road : The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles (Paperback)
by Frank Rowsome Jr.
Thanks. I will look for it at the library.
I have the book. We "kids" couldn't wait for a family road trip. Our eyes were peeled for the next set of Burma Shave signs. We also saw nearly all of the continental U.S. because we were looking out the window, but I digress.
Here are some war-related ones from the '40's:
Let's make Hitler
And Hirohito
Look as sick as
Old Benito
Buy Defense Bonds
Burma-Shave
Maybe you can't
Shoulder a gun
But you can shoulder
The cost of one
Buy Defense Bonds
Burma-Shave
Buying defense bonds
Means money lent
So they don't cost you
One red cent
Burma-Shave
To most brush shavers
It's quite clear
The Yanks aren't coming
The Yanks are here
Use Brushless
Burma-Shave
Prices rising
O'er the nation
Here is one
That missed
Inflation
Burma-Shave
We don't
Know how
To split an atom
But as to whiskers
Let us at 'em
Burma-Shave
In seventy years
Of brushin' soap on
Gramps coulda painted
The Pentagon
Use brushless
Burma-shave
My favorite, from 1950:
Twinkle, twinkle
One-eyed car
We all wonder
WHERE
You are
From a cartoon:
Farewell, O verse
Along the road
How sad to
Know you're
Out of mode
Burma-Shave
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