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 some of the actual signs:

Don't Stick Your Elbow
Out So Far
It May Go Home
In Another Car.
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Trains Don't Wander
All over the Map
'Cause Nobody Sits
In the Engineer's Lap
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She Kissed the Hairbrush
By Mistake
She Thought it Was
Her Husband Jake
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Don't Lose Your Head
To Gain a Minute
You Need Your Head
Your Brains Are in it
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Drove Too Long
Driver Snoozing
What Happened next
Is Not Amusing
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Brother Speeder
Let's Rehearse
All Together
Good Morning, Nurse
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Cautious Rider
To Her Reckless Dear
Let's Have less Bull
And More Steer
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Speed Was High
Weather Was Not
Tires Were Thin
X Marks the Spot
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The Midnight Ride
Of Paul for Beer
Led to a Warmer
Hemisphere
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Around the Curve
Lickety-split
Beautiful Car
Wasn't It?
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No Matter the Price
No Matter How New
The Best Safety Device
In the Car Is You
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A Guy Who Drives
A Car Wide Open
Is Not Thinkin'
He's Just Hopin'
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At Intersections
Look Each Way
A Harp Sounds Nice
But It's Hard to Play
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Both Hands on the Wheel
Eyes on the Road
That's the Skillful
Driver's Code
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The One Who Drives
When He's Been Drinking
Depends on You
To Do His Thinking
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Car in Ditch
Driver in Tree
The Moon Was Full
And So Was He.
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Passing School Zone
Take it Slow
Let Our Little
Shavers Grow
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Do These Bring Back Any Old Memories?

If Not, You're Merely a Child.

If They Do - Then You're Old as Dirt.....

 

Way before my time but they are cool sayings.

 

way beforec my time as well

 

I may have seen the remnants of some of those signs when I was a kid.
The last of the signs were made in 1963, or there abouts.

 

its nice to hear im still a kid at 42 but why do i feel like im 92?

 

Maybe if you would have used "Burma Shave", then maybe......

 

Then older than Dirt
I truly must be
For Burma Shave signs
Bring back many memories to me
Use Burma Shave

 

Ok, since we're on an "old timer's kick".....
Vitalis
Brylcreme
Butch Wax
Palmade

This should narrow down the field of admitted users!

 

In these days
Of toil and sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin.

 

I remember the Burma Shave signs well. I guess that means I'm older that dirt.

 

I remember using Brylcreme and Vitalis.
Vitalis was an oily greenish colored liquid or there abouts,
and Brylcreme was in a tooth paste like tube.
It was a white paste.
When out in the raine, it looked like someone poured milk over your head.

 

I am not even 40 yet and i can remember them I don't ever recal them here in Az but would see them when we went to Ok. most were falling down when I remember them

 

i cant remember
any signs
from burmashave
beyond my time

 

Growing up in OK. I would see them along some of the country roads, most were rusted and leaning but I always thought they were the coolest form of advertising.

 

My grandfather still has a set that he saved from his father's farm. I dont know what they say because they are stacked on top of one another in the back of his barn...