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07-31-2011, 10:57 AM
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Burma Shave
Another post mentioned Wall Drug signs, reminded me of the old Burma Shave signs I used to read while skipping school once a year to ride along with my dad, a traveling salesman in Iowa and Nebraska. Some have stayed with me for over fifty years. My favorite is: Don't Lose Your Head to Save a Minute - You Need Your Head, Your Brains are In It. Have you got memories of any of them? No fair looking them up on Google. :jester:
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07-31-2011, 02:15 PM
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I actually saw a string of them somewhere up in Utah or Wyoming a little over a year ago.
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07-31-2011, 05:20 PM
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My favorite Burma Shave jingle never appeared on any of the roadside signs but in an issue of Mad Magazine instead. It went as follows:
Her guy's whiskers
just don't faze her.
He shaves with
electric razor.
Why bother with
Burma Shave?
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07-31-2011, 09:49 PM
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LadyF, we flew by one jingle while in Montana earlier this month, but alas, we weren't able to read it.
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07-31-2011, 10:00 PM
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I'm tempted to Google them but I won't. Even though I remember numerous signs on Route 66 in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona in the 60's, I can't remember the wording on any of them...but they were entertaining for sure.
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07-31-2011, 10:15 PM
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They sure were. We lived in a whole other country then in many ways.
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08-01-2011, 12:16 AM
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"Don't take this curve at sixty per, we'd hate to lose a customer!"
"He was clean, had no B.O., had whiskers so she let him go."
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08-01-2011, 08:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cekkk+
LadyF, we flew by one jingle while in Montana earlier this month, but alas, we weren't able to read it.
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Same here. We were by them before we realized what they were. The same friend and I are heading up to Wyoming on the same route in about a couple of weeks so I'll try to keep and eye out for them.
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08-03-2011, 06:52 PM
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A Man, a Miss, a car, a curve.
He kissed the Miss, and missed the curve.
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08-04-2011, 11:57 AM
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"If its music that you crave,
Buy a tuba Burma Shave"
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08-04-2011, 12:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blujay
"if its music that you crave,
buy a tuba burma shave"
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har-har-har!
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