DON'T TAKE/ A CURVE/ AT 60 PER/WE HATE TO LOSE/A CUSTOMER

[dug777]

Burma-Shave!


Here's a less altruistic one:

HE LIT A MATCH/TO CHECK GAS TANK/THAT'S WHY/THEY CALL HIM/SKINLESS FRANK

 

[RbSX]

...........?

 

[Stumps]

WTF?

 

[Descartes]

Too much Vegamite == incomprehensibility?

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

 

[zoiks]

huh?

 

[Steve]

Isn't it Myanmar now?

 

[dug777]

*shakes head*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

*shakes head*

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

a) i'm not a yank and i'm confused as fvck
b) your buddy Stumps isn't a yank either and he's confused as fvck

 

[Steve]

I'm Canadian and I knew exactly what this referred to when I saw the thread title

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Missin' / kissin'? / Perhaps your thrush / can't get through / the underbrush ? try / Burma-Shave

Lol! I didn't think they were allowed to even think dirty back then.

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

We have ways of making you type the letter Z. And that focker in not named "Zed".

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

a) i'm not a yank and i'm confused as fvck
b) your buddy Stumps isn't a yank either and he's confused as fvck

While i have no expectations that non-yanks would know anything about this, for people who live there, and have lived there their whole lives, i have some expectations

 

[Abel007]

But sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Phillip Morris. The signs were removed at that time.

I wasn't around in 1963. I am happy that you like this sort of advertising but don't be so hard on us "yanks" simply because we don't know exactly what you are talking about.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Abel007

But sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Phillip Morris. The signs were removed at that time.

I wasn't around in 1963. I am happy that you like this sort of advertising but don't be so hard on us "yanks" simply because we don't know exactly what you are talking about.

Yeah, it's entirely elitist of me

It's the kind of thing that fascinates me i guess, and it was hardly a minor phenomenon

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Stumps
WTF?

Dang...you're normally the one whose posts I look to in order to explain what Dug is saying

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

WHAT MATE?

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

Who said anything about being yank dug?

I'm more of a descendant of the British Empire than you are.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: Stumps
WTF?

Dang...you're normally the one whose posts I look to in order to explain what Dug is saying

He had me confused with this thread...must be something in the water all the way across the country in WA...luckily there are several deserts and a whole state between me and the madness from the west.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

Who said anything about being yank dug?

I'm more of a descendant of the British Empire than you are.

In that case, i apologise.

See my previous comments about who i hoped would recognise these lines

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: RyanSengara
...........?

It's part of your advertising heritage...

*shakes head*

Uncultured, that's what you yanks are

Who said anything about being yank dug?

I'm more of a descendant of the British Empire than you are.

In that case, i apologise.

See my previous comments about who i hoped would recognise these lines

East Indian / English ftw.

Still.. not old enough to recognize it.

 

[FlashG]

I remember this / from back in the day / when that?s all we had / cause the radio wouldn?t play

 

[BoomerD]

I'm old enough to remember the Burma Shave signs...When I was a little "shaver" they were posted along highways everywhere...
"At their height of popularity there were 7,000 Burma-Shave signs stretching across America. The familiar white on red signs, grouped by four, fives and sixes, were as much a part of a family trip as irritating your kid brother in the back seat of the car. You'd read first one, then another, anticpating the punch line on number five and the familiar Burma-Shave on the sixth."

The place to pass
On curves
You know
Is only at
A beauty show
Burma-Shave

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

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I'm old enough to remember the Burma Shave signs...When I was a little "shaver" they were posted along highways everywhere...
"At their height of popularity there were 7,000 Burma-Shave signs stretching across America. The familiar white on red signs, grouped by four, fives and sixes, were as much a part of a family trip as irritating your kid brother in the back seat of the car. You'd read first one, then another, anticpating the punch line on number five and the familiar Burma-Shave on the sixth."

The place to pass
On curves
You know
Is only at
A beauty show
Burma-Shave

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

:beer:

Awesome. Wish i'd been around to see them

 

[Ipno]

Sounds like that one kid in malcolm in the middle.