BURMA SHAVE (Remember?)

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[dighton]

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[Cool Guy]

bump!

[Bobibutu]

The 5th and last sign .... always was "Burma Shave" and we all got that one right - yelling it out.

[hole_n_one]

A GUY WHO DRIVES
  A CAR WIDE OPEN
  IS NOT THINKIN'
  HE'S JUST HOPIN'

 

I would think that anybody who's in a car that needs a roof to protect themselves from anything other than the rain or the sun has a much bigger problem at the moment than not having a roof.

[Cold Heat]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I recall acually anticipating the signs when I rode in the family car, (a Packard) on vacation trips. We had a lot of fun reading them!

[Jemian]

Do not pass
Upon a slope
Unless you use
a periscope
Burma Shave

[yooper]

I've posted posts

Which Fried in Fat

Why hasn't this

Been moved to "Chat"

Burma Shave:)

[Jemian]

He saw the train
And tried to duck it
Kicked first the gas
And then, the bucket
Burma Shave

[AnAmericanMother]

Farewell, o verse
Beside the road
How sad to know
You're out of mode

BURMA-SHAVE

Couple other faves:

Beneath this vale
Of toil and sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin.

BURMA-SHAVE

(that one's in the Smithsonian.)

Said Juliet
To Romeo
"If you won't shave,
Go home-eo."

BURMA-SHAVE

[Cicero]

Does your husband
Misbehave
Grunt and grumble
Rant and rave
Shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave

-1930 Burma Shave Slogan

[Cicero]

The 50 cent jar
So large
By heck
Even the Scotch
Now shave the neck
Burma-Shave

-Also 1930

[Doohickey]

"Wide open" is a euphamism for full throttle, not a convertible.

[Cicero]

The cannoneers
With hairy ears
On wiry whiskers
Used tin shears
Until they found
Burma-Shave

-1930

[hole_n_one]

Well, don't I feel like an idiot.

[mollynme]

Don't stick your elbow
Out too far
It may go home
In another car
Burma Shave

[Cicero]

He had the ring
He had the flat
But she felt his chin
And that
Was that
Burma-Shave

-1934

[Richard Kimball]

This will never
Come to pass
Back seat driver
Out of gas

[Twinkie]

You'll wonder where
The yellow went
When you brush your teeth
With
Burma Shave - - - oops! Never mind.

[liberalnot]

these were still up when i was a kid in the 1950's.

i guess they disappeared in the 1960's.