Re: [Chrysler300] Slightly Off-Topic Safe Driving Reminder

["Raspberry Manor Bed & Breakfast" <kmrook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe,  I have reproded  a set of the Burma Shave signs and installed them in our driveway.  We have a book with all the slogans in it from the first to the last and some were pretty suggestive for the late 20's, 30's, and 40's  The book title is "The verse by the side of the road and there were a total of 600 rhymes from 1927-1963.  The exact specs of the signs by color and size are known and we had them done the same.  They get comments from visitors but not as many as I thought.  Maybe I'm getting older but I can't remember.   Don Rook
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  From: jlsavard@xxxxxxx 
  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:44 AM
  Subject: [Chrysler300] Slightly Off-Topic Safe Driving Reminder




  Subject: Burma Shave Signs

  Too bad they're not still around to entertain, and warn our new young
  drivers. 

  For those who never saw any of the BurmaShave signs, here is a
  quick lesson in our history of the 1930's and '40's. Before there were
  interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads, BurmaShave signs
  would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields. 

  They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs, about 100
  feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet...... and the
  obligatory 5th sign advertising BurmaShave, a popular shaving cream. 

  Here are more of the actual signs: 

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

  TRAINS DON'T WANDER 
  ALL OVER THE MAP 
  'CAUSE NOBODY SITS 
  IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP 
  BurmaShave 

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

  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 
  BurmaShave 

  BROTHER SPEEDER 
  LET'S REHEARSE 
  ALL TOGETHER 
  GOOD MORNING, NURSE 
  BurmaShave 

  CAUTIOUS RIDER 
  TO HER RECKLESS DEAR 
  LET'S HAVE LESS BULL 
  AND MORE STEER 
  BurmaShave 

  SPEED WAS HIGH 
  WEATHER WAS NOT 
  TIRES WERE THIN 
  X MARKS THE SPOT 
  BurmaShave 

  THE MIDNIGHT RIDE 
  OF PAUL FOR BEER 
  LED TO A WARMER 
  HEMISPHERE 
  BurmaShave 

  AROUND THE CURVE 
  LICKETY-SPLIT 
  BEAUTIFUL CAR 
  WASN'T IT? 
  Burma Shave 

  NO MATTER THE PRICE 
  NO MATTER HOW NEW 
  THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE 
  IN THE CAR IS YOU 
  BurmaShave 

  A GUY WHO DRIVES 
  A CAR WIDE OPEN 
  IS NOT THINKIN' 
  HE'S JUST HOPIN' 
  BurmaShave 

  AT INTERSECTIONS 
  LOOK EACH WAY 
  A HARP SOUNDS NICE 
  BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY 
  BurmaShave 

  BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL 
  EYES ON THE ROAD 
  THAT'S THE SKILLFUL 
  DRIVER'S CODE 
  BurmaShave 

  THE ONE WHO DRIVES 
  WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING 
  DEPENDS ON YOU 
  TO DO HIS THINKING 
  BurmaShave 

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

  PASSING SCHOOL ZONE 
  TAKE IT SLOW 
  LET OUR LITTLE 
  SHAVERS GROW 
  BurmaShave 

  Do these bring back any old memories? 
  If not, you're merely a baby. 
  If they do - then you're as old as dirt.... 
  LIKE ME! 

  "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you
  > meet is
  > fighting some kind of battle."


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