Back in the 40's and 50s, Burma Shave, an American shaving cream company had a very successful advertizing campaign, using small red billboards along highways that would progress one line at a time as the driver went by. The last billboard would always say "Burma Shave". An example:

He tried

To cross

As fast train neared

Death didn't draft him

He volunteered

Burma-Shave

I thought up a clever one for Pattaya, and thought I'd share it with you all. If anyone else can think up any, post em!

In a bar a man sits

Blackout will come soon

Continually beers flow

Thirty-five before noon

Burma Shave

-H

Thank you, Mr. Trink. Don't call us, we'll call you.

Your post really brought back childhood memories. I haven't seen any Burma Shave signs since I left the backroads of Texas behind forty years ago. I always thought the signs were homegrown there. Did you see them someplace else?

I thought up a clever one for Pattaya, and thought I'd share it with you all. If anyone else can think up any, post em!

a reminder from the grave

about a sign for burma shave ??

nah!

just another old geezer

having a siezure

on thai visa

Courtesy of Tom Waits.

Burma Shave

licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue scrawled across the shoulders

of a dying town the one eyed jacks across the railroad tracks

and the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through

he was a juvenile delinquent never learned how to behave

but the cops would never think to look in

burma shave

and the road was like a ribbon and the moon was like a bone

he didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known

he kinda looked like farley granger with his hair slicked back

she says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat

how far are you going he said depends on what you mean

he says i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved

i guess you'd say i'm on my way to

burma shave

and her knees up on the glove compartment

took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer

and she popped her gum and arched her back

###### marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road

some night my heart pounds just like thunder

i don't know why it don't explode

cause everyone in this stinking town has got one foot in the grave

and i'd rather take my chances out in

burma shave

presley's what i go by why don't you change the station

count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror

mister anywhere you point this thing

has got to beat the ###### out of the sting

of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin

and so drill me a hole with a barber pole

i'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight

why don't you have another swig

and pass that car if you're so brave

i wanna get there before the sun comes up in

burma shave

and the spider web crack and the mustang screamed

smoke from the tires and the twisted machine

just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved

lie swindled from them on the way to

burma shave

and the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow

up against the car door on the shot gun side

and when they pulled her from the wreck you know she

still had on her shades

they say that dreams are growing wild just this side of

burma shave

http://grantmcl.tripod.com/burmashave.html

that website will bring tears to the eyes of any burma shave-o-maniacs

history , pictures , nostalgia and even a burma shave radio jukebox.

for the obsessed only.

Sounds like the sort of thing the Thais do ( put up signs along the road )when there is a temple fair on...don't know if the messages on them rhyme though..

Never heard of it. Did you get your money back if it didn't shave closer than a blade ?

Burma Shave?

Is that the Asian version of a Brazilian?

Burma Shave?

Is that the Asian version of a Brazilian?  

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Nah, the Brazilian leaves a thin strip, the Burma takes it all off ! (or so I've heard !)

So it's the same same as the difference between a gogo Bar that pays the MIB and one that doesn't

I thought up a few more...

A bad episode

Was had

In a short time room

He's now being collected

By the Sawang Boriboon

Burma Shave

A rash obtained

From short time room

A trip to the chemist

Cometh real soon

Burma Shave

Beach Road

At night

DVDs galore

VHS quality

Like days of yore

Burma Shave

Fat farang

In a speedo

Ass cheeks are seen

Thai people too polite

To say it's obscene

Burma Shave

Police report

Gambling ring caught

All cash into pockets

Except 20 Baht

Burma Shave

File a report

Police force

Reviews

Tomorrow night

You're on the news

Burma Shave

Go-go bar tipped off

Police near the scene

Only two dancers

Are over Eightteen

Burma Shave

Local news

Airs a clip

Your passport is shown

Alert to all crooks

Your details are known

Burma Shave

haha very funny indeed.

Thaivisa

posters

deserve a smacking.

The humour's weak

and rhyme-scheme's lacking.

Burma Shave.