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BURMA SHAVE (Remember?)
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Posted on 06/25/2003 5:48:34 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound

 

 
----- Original Message -----

For those of you who never saw the Burma Shave
signs, here is a quick lesson in our history
of the 1930s and 1940s. Before  the
Interstates, when everyone drove the old
2-lane roads, Burma Shave signs
would be posted all over the countryside
in farmers' fields. They were
small red signs with white letters.
Five signs, about 100 feet apart,
each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet ...
and the obligatory 5th sign advertising
Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.


 

  DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
  TO GAIN A MINUTE
  YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
  YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT

 
 

  DROVE TOO LONG
  DRIVER SNOOZING
  WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
  IS NOT AMUSING

 
 

  BROTHER SPEEDER,
  LET'S REHEARSE;
  ALL TOGETHER,
GOOD MORNING NURSE

 
 

  CAUTIOUS RIDER
  TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
  LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
  AND LOTS MORE STEER

 

  SPEED WAS HIGH
  WEATHER WAS NOT
  TIRES WERE THIN
  X MARKS THE SPOT

 
 

  THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
  OF PAUL FOR BEER
  LED HIM TO
  A WARMER HEMISPHERE

 
 

  AROUND THE CURVE
  LICKETY-SPLIT
  IT'S A BEAUTIFUL NEW CAR
  WASN'T IT?

 
 

  NO MATTER THE PRICE
  NO MATTER HOW NEW
  THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
  IN THE CAR IS YOU

 

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

 
 
 

  AT INTERSECTIONS
  LOOK EACH WAY
  A HARP SOUNDS NICE
  BUT ITS HARD TO PLAY

 

  BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
  EYES ON THE ROAD
  THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
  DRIVER'S CODE

 

  THE ONE WHO DRIVES
  WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
  DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING

 

  CAR IN DITCH
  DRIVER IN TREE
  THE MOON WAS FULL
  AND SO WAS HE.

  And my all time favorite

  PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
  TAKE IT SLOW
  LET OUR LITTLE
  SHAVERS GROW

 
 


 

Did you know shaving cream is just fluffed up soap?
Makes a great " in a pinch " spot remover!!!
 
 
 
 
 



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burmashave; turass
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1 posted on 06/25/2003 5:48:34 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound; MinuteGal; AnAmericanMother; Librarina


. . . click . . .

2 posted on 06/25/2003 5:55:54 PM PDT by dighton (NLC™)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound; Nick Danger; Registered
bump!
3 posted on 06/25/2003 5:57:30 PM PDT by Cool Guy (In God We Trust.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
The 5th and last sign .... always was "Burma Shave" and we all got that one right - yelling it out.
4 posted on 06/25/2003 5:59:44 PM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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.

5 posted on 06/25/2003 6:02:13 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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!

6 posted on 06/25/2003 6:06:13 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Negotiate!! .............(((Blam!.)))........... "Now who else wants to negotiate?")
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Do not pass
Upon a slope
Unless you use
a periscope
Burma Shave
7 posted on 06/25/2003 6:06:37 PM PDT by Jemian (Plagerism is profitable. See the NYT!)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
I've posted posts

Which Fried in Fat

Why hasn't this

Been moved to "Chat"

Burma Shave:)

8 posted on 06/25/2003 6:08:01 PM PDT by yooper
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
He saw the train
And tried to duck it
Kicked first the gas
And then, the bucket
Burma Shave
9 posted on 06/25/2003 6:08:24 PM PDT by Jemian (Plagerism is profitable. See the NYT!)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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

10 posted on 06/25/2003 6:09:29 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Does your husband
Misbehave
Grunt and grumble
Rant and rave
Shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave

-1930 Burma Shave Slogan
11 posted on 06/25/2003 6:11:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
The 50 cent jar
So large
By heck
Even the Scotch
Now shave the neck
Burma-Shave

-Also 1930
12 posted on 06/25/2003 6:14:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: hole_n_one
"Wide open" is a euphamism for full throttle, not a convertible.
13 posted on 06/25/2003 6:14:16 PM PDT by Doohickey
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
The cannoneers
With hairy ears
On wiry whiskers
Used tin shears
Until they found
Burma-Shave

-1930
14 posted on 06/25/2003 6:15:16 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Doohickey
Well, don't I feel like an idiot.
15 posted on 06/25/2003 6:15:52 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Don't stick your elbow
Out too far
It may go home
In another car
Burma Shave
16 posted on 06/25/2003 6:16:42 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
He had the ring
He had the flat
But she felt his chin
And that
Was that
Burma-Shave

-1934
17 posted on 06/25/2003 6:17:38 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Jemian
This will never
Come to pass
Back seat driver
Out of gas
18 posted on 06/25/2003 6:18:24 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: Cicero
You'll wonder where
The yellow went
When you brush your teeth
With
Burma Shave - - - oops! Never mind.
19 posted on 06/25/2003 6:22:07 PM PDT by Twinkie
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
these were still up when i was a kid in the 1950's.

i guess they disappeared in the 1960's.
20 posted on 06/25/2003 6:22:44 PM PDT by liberalnot (democrats fear democracy. /s)
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