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Date Posted: 20:53:00 05/27/02 Mon
Author: Tweety
Subject: Burma shave signs for those that can remember them

Burma Shave signs

Before Interstates, when everyone drove the old two-lane roads cross country, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields on their fence lines. These small red signs had white letters.

Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each had one line of a four-line couplet ... the fifth sign said "Burma Shave." Due to widening of highways and faster automobiles, 1963 was the last year for new Burma Shave signs and were being replaced by unsightly billboards. Here are some of those memories. I'm sure there are many more.

A MAN WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE IS DRUNK
SHOULD HAUL HIS
COFFIN IN HIS TRUNK
**Burma Shave**
.
SPRING HAS SPRUNG
THE GRASS HAS RIZ
WHERE LAST YEARS
DRUNKEN DRIVER IS
**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 SPEEDERS
LET'S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING NURSE
**Burma-Shave**
.
CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
AND LOTS MORE STEER
**Burma-Shave**
.
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A
WARMER HEMISPHERE
**Burma-Shave**
.
SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS HOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
**Burma-Shave**
.
AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN'T IT?
**Burma-Shave**
.
PASSING CARS
WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE
MAY GET YOU A GLIMPSE
OF ETERNITY
**Burma-Shave*

VIOLETS ARE BLUE
ROSES ARE PINK
ON GRAVES OF THOSE
WHO DRIVE AND DRINK
**Burma-Shave*

ALTHO INSURED
REMEMBER KIDDO
THEY DON'T PAY YOU
THEY PAY YOUR WIDOW
**Burma-Shave

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OMG Tweety those are great! -- zazoo, 21:20:20 05/27/02 Mon
- I agree, they are great! -- Cari, 00:42:06 05/28/02 Tue