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To remember these? (Unfortunately, I am but I don't CARE!!)



Don't stick your elbow

Out so far

It may go home

In another car



BURMA SHAVE

I remember reading them alot when I was a kid and we were driving cross country to California.

I remember these!



She put a bullet

Thru his hat

But he had

Closer shaves

than that

Burma-Shave

Oh I love that one, Mustang!!



Here's another:



She kissed the hairbrush

By mistake

She thought it was

Her husband Jake

BURMA SHAVE



:-6

i know Burma Shave, but none of the others

Here's another one too....

If your peach

Keeps out

of reach

Better practice

What we preach.

Burma-Shave

At intersections

Look each way

A harp sounds nice

But it's hard to play

BURMA SHAVE



;)

For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs,

here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930s and

'40s. Before

there were 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 one line of a 4 line couplet...... and

the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a

popular shaving cream.



(I'm not THAT old, a lot of the signs must have stayed up into

the 50's and 60's!)



:-6

Oh, I remember Burma Shave signs..........................

On curves ahead

Remember, sonny

That rabbit's foot

Didn't save

The bunny



this on is on US HWY 30 (old Licoln highway), east of Jefferson, IA... a few miles from where i live.

Grew up on Burma-Shave adds.. every where we traveled they were the as kids.. :-6

[QUOTE]The wolf

Is shaved

So neat and trim

Red Riding Hood

Is chasing him

Burma-Shave [/QUOTE]

Yet another...

[QUOTE]Pedro

Walked

Back home by golly

His bristly chin

Was hot-to-Molly

Burma-Shave [/QUOTE]

Passing school zone

Take it slow

Let our little

Shavers grow

BURMA SHAVE

His cheek

Was rough

His chick vamoosed

And now she won't

Come home

To roost

Burma-Shave

Don't lose your head

To gain a minute

You need your head

Your brains are in it

BURMA SHAVE

Take It All Off!!! (Said on a TV ad by a beautiful model)

Burma Shave!

This cream makes the

Gardener's daughter

Plant her tu-lips

Where she oughter

BURMA-SHAVE



:-6

Brother speeder

Let's rehearse

All together

Good morning, nurse

BURMA SHAVE

A lot of those signs were still in place when we used to drive to Texas every year on the old route 66. It was fun for me, as a child who loved to read.

Now it occurs to me they'd never be successful today....we drive too fast to read them!