Subject: FW: Burma Shave
From: "Char Olson" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:20:04 -0500

From: JoAnn Eckstein [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:43 PM
To: JoAnn Eckstein
Subject: Burma Shave

 

 Burma Shave

 

*To my old friends who heeded these signs! 

For those who never saw any of the BurmaShave signs, here is a quick lesson

in our history of the 1930's and '40's. 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 1 line of a 4 line couplet.......and
the obligatory 5th sign advertising

Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream. 
 
   Here are more of the actual signs: 

DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW 
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.
 BURMA SHAVE 
 
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 A LITTLE 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
 
 PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW 
  Burma Shave 

 Do these bring back any old memories?
If not, you're merely a child.

                                                                    If they
do - then you're old ... LIKE ME!