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If you have never heard of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in history of the 1930's '40's and ‘50’s.


Before there were interstates everyone drove the old 2 lane roads. Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside, very often in farmers' fields. You did not know where the signs would turn up. Driving along, suddenly you would spot one planted alongside the road, followed by the rest.


They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs made up the set, stuck about 100 feet apart. Each sign contained 1 line of a 4 line couplet......and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.


Read Below: Actual wording taken from signs you “might have read".


DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR.

CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE.


DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave

A GUY, A MISS
A CAR, A CURVE
HE KISSED THE MISS
AND MISSED THE CURVE

SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE