More Burma Shave Signs

Email | 11/05/2005 | Unknown

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Some of you may have seen this before but the younger Freepers will enjoy this!

[truthkeeper]

Thanks for the memories.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Not a Burma Shave sign but one in Assam, India caught my eye.
It was a narrow curvy blacktop and the road sign said "IN THIS CORNER GET HORNY".

[Young Werther]

His cheek

Was rough

His chick vamoosed

And now she won't

Come home to roost

Burma-Shave

Burma Page

[Rebelbase]

Nice and smooth
like a waxed zuccini
are women who wear
a low cut bikini

Burma-Shave.

[martin_fierro]

FOR AWFUL JOKES
ONE MUST REPENT
IN CHAS AND MIKE
LIES PUN-ISHMMENT

[Charles Henrickson]

INTO FR
I SHOT AN ARROW
IT FELL TO MIRTH
FROM MARTY FIERRO

[Charles Henrickson]

IF MIKROFON
SHOULD START TO PUN
YOU KNOW THE THREAD
WILL BE MAKROFUN

[Charles Henrickson]

WON'T SHAVE HER LEGS
THE BLADE IS RUSTY
AND THAT IS WHY
SHE WEARS OL' CRUSTY

[Charles Henrickson]

HIS SILKY SKIN
WAS SMOOTH TO SPANK
HE SHAVES ALL OVER
DOES BARNEY FRANK

[Charles Henrickson]

FROM THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
TO THE SOLE OF HIS FEETS
A WELL-SHAVED BYRD
SLIPS INTO THE SHEETS

[Charles Henrickson]

IN SPEEDOS BLACK
THAT LOOK SO SLIMMING
OLD TED SHAVES DOWN
TO HELP HIS SWIMMING

[SE Mom]

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"..

[gorush]

I remember this one:

Men with wiskers

under their noses

ought to kiss

like eskimos

[Charles Henrickson]

HE GAINED SOME WEIGHT
HE GREW A BEARD
BUT ALGORE STAYS
FOREVER WEIRD

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

You got that right! The generation today don't seem to "get it" at all!

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.

[martin_fierro]

IN MERLIN'S CLOAK
CHAS GIRDED HIS THIGHS
TO BETTER APPEAR
ONE OF THE WISE GUISE

[raccoonradio]

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.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Thanks. I will look for it at the library.

[ntnychik]

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