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treeseed commented on the word burma-shave
Burma-Shave was a United States brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small, sequential highway billboard signs.
Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. It was a pungent, soapy-smelling concoction which the company at first had difficulty selling. To increase sales, the owners developed the famous Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off. At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States.
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February 3, 2008
sionnach commented on the word burma-shave
The Queen of Hearts
Now loves the Knave
The King ran out of
BURMA-SHAVE
If harmony
Is what you crave
Then get a tuba
BURMA-SHAVE
The whale took Jonah
Down the hatch
Then coughed him up
Because he scratched
BURMA-SHAVE
Her chariot raced
At eighty per
They hauled away
What had Ben Hur
BURMA-SHAVE
July 19, 2009
bilby commented on the word burma-shave
And here was me hankering for a bit of Tom Waits.
July 19, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word burma-shave
Those are good ones, sionnach. :) Hadn't seen those before.
July 20, 2009