My Favorite Burma Shave sign-series lines

[wimbouman]

Gents,

I did not know of the Burma shave advertisements. Maybe it is because Burma shave is not too familiar a brand here in the Netherlands. But the Burma shave sign series certainly put a smile on my face when I discovered them. They are probably very familiar to the gentlemen on B&B, so let me restrict myself to quoting a few of my favorites:

• Don't lose / Your head / To gain a minute / You need your head / Your brains are in it / Burma-Shave
  
• I use it too / The bald man said / It keeps my face / Just like / My head / Burma-Shave
  
• Around / The curve / Lickety-split / Lovely car / Wasn't it? / Burma Shave
  
• This cooling shave / Will never fail / To stamp / Its user / First-class male / Burma-Shave
  

All on the Wikipedia.

Does any one of you gentlemen have a favorite Burma shave quote?

 

[VolpeVerde]

Two that I remember

Spring
Has sprung
The grass has riz
Where last year's
Careless drivers is
BURMA-SHAVE

Within this veil
Of toil
And sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin
BURMA-SHAVE

 

[TinFish]

The Wolf is Shaved
So Neat and Trim
Red Riding Hood
Is Chasing Him
Burma Shave

 

[grumpy old codger]

In this world,
Of toil and sin,
Your head grows bald,
But not your chin.

Burma Shave

 

[mmack66]

He tried
To cross
As fast train neared
Death didn't draft him
He volunteered
Burma-Shave

 

[soapbox]

Someone already mentioned "Red Riding Hood", but I also like this one.

Full disclosure: I don't remember seeing Burma Shave signs on the road, if indeed I ever did.

 

[wimbouman]

Those are great!
Thanks!

/w

 

[al7jj]

...Full disclosure: I don't remember seeing Burma Shave signs on the road, if indeed I ever did.

I think they were last used in the 1960's before the interstate highway system was finished. I remember them from trips in the 1950's, and up to about 1962.

One which was never used (relevant to current US politics):

The other woman
in his life
said go on home
and scratch your wife