C. D. Ward
August 30th 2004, 12:34 PM
I got this idea from a fortuitous post I made on another spam thread...
Most of us (including myself) are too young (much too young!) to actually remember the Burma Shave signs that were once ubiquitous on major highways around the U.S. However, that doesn't mean we can't have fun with the idea!
In 1925, the Burma Shave Co. began advertising its product (a brushless shaving cream) using red & white signs along roads and highways. Each advertisement would occupy between four and six signs and would usually be some type of humorous rhyme with the last sign being reserved for the product name. An example:
1. Shaving brushes
2. You'll soon see 'em
3. On a shelf
4. In some museum
5. Burma-Shave
See here (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm)for any more information you might desire, including examples of the signs.
Of course, this milieu is perfectly suited to a spam thread! So, each contributor should post between four to six times, each one with a line from a short poem, with the final post being "Burma Spam". An example follows:
Most of us (including myself) are too young (much too young!) to actually remember the Burma Shave signs that were once ubiquitous on major highways around the U.S. However, that doesn't mean we can't have fun with the idea!
In 1925, the Burma Shave Co. began advertising its product (a brushless shaving cream) using red & white signs along roads and highways. Each advertisement would occupy between four and six signs and would usually be some type of humorous rhyme with the last sign being reserved for the product name. An example:
1. Shaving brushes
2. You'll soon see 'em
3. On a shelf
4. In some museum
5. Burma-Shave
See here (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm)for any more information you might desire, including examples of the signs.
Of course, this milieu is perfectly suited to a spam thread! So, each contributor should post between four to six times, each one with a line from a short poem, with the final post being "Burma Spam". An example follows: