BURMA SHAVE

Burma-Shave. a shaving cream company, ran an ad campaign from 1927 to 1963 consisting of sequential billboards along highways. Six billboards were used to spell out the message, a 5-line rhymed jingle followed by the words Burma Shave.  They are always wry humorous messages about driver safety.

Here are some examples:     

Spring
has sprung.
The grass has riz
where last year's
careless driver is.
BURMA SHAVE



Proper
distance
to him was bunk.
They pulled him out
of some guy's trunk.
BURMA SHAVE


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