Fwd: Remember this?
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  • Subject: Fwd: Remember this?
  • From: R*@aol.com
  • Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:05:37 EDT
  • Full-name: ReporterSr
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  • Subject: Fwd: Remember this?
  • From: P*@aol.com
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:26:23 EDT
  • Full-name: P1FIDEL
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  • Subject: Remember this?
  • From: C*@aol.com
  • Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:38:18 EDT
  • Full-name: CWTICE1911

For those of you who never saw the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930's and '40's.  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 LOOSE 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 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
     ITS A 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 ITS 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***

And my all time favorite

     PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
     TAKE IT SLOW
   LET OUR LITTLE
     SHAVERS GROW
    ***Burma Shave*


Now do these bring back memories??






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