I found a cool pencil in my stash of old found in house walls at work stuff when I was looking for that Lucky Strike pack in the other thread.

The pencil is from the Henry Funeral Home in Lisbon, Ohio and has some advice printed on it along with their info.
I would say it's from the 40's or 50's.
Not a bad idea, just do it today with cell phone distraction and drunk driving references included.


"Sing While You Drive"

At 45 miles per hour, sing "Highways are Happy Ways"
At 55 miles, sing - "I'm But a Stranger Here, Heaven is my Home"
At 65 miles, sing - "Nearer My God to Thee" (my icy roof sliding song )
At 75 miles, sing - "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, I'll Be There"
At 85 miles, sing - "Lord, I'm Coming Home"

"Getting back to business - DRIVE SAFELY! We Like our customers and wish to keep them"


They like them for a few days anyway.
You know what they say about house guests that stay too long.

How do you have repeat customers at a funeral home????

 

reminiscent of the Burma Shave signs

 

Altho insured
Remember, kiddo
They don't pay you
They pay
Your widow
Burma-Shave

 

Those are good ones!!

Jamesbo.... what is Burma-Shave???

 

Kids

Back in the Fifties Sandy

It's shaving cream that used to advertise with 6 road signs place maybe 50' apart on fence post. They had catchy slogan.

On curves ahead
Remember, sonny
That rabbit's foot
Didn't save
The bunny
Burma-Shave

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm

 

Used to be along america's hi-ways and bi-ways. shaving cream manufacture.

WITHIN THIS VALE
OF TOIL
AND SIN
YOUR HEAD GROWS BALD
BUT NOT YOUR CHIN
Burma-Shave

DINAH DOESN'T
TREAT HIM RIGHT
BUT IF
HE'D SHAVE
DINAH-MITE!
Burma-Shave

IF YOU
DON'T KNOW
WHOSE SIGNS
THESE ARE
YOU CAN'T HAVE
DRIVEN VERY FAR
Burma-Shave

A company near bankruptcy
Clinton Odell developed a brushless shaving cream which he called Burma-Shave. At a time when folks were really starting to travel America by automobile, the brushless shave cream eliminated the problem of packing a wet shaving brush and cup. Odell had an excellent product; all he lacked was a marketing plan. What was about to happen, is one of America's most successful advertising plans ever!

Allan Odell, one of three sons, convinced his father to spend $200 for some materials to construct highway signs. In 1926, using recycled lumber, Allan fabricated the first Burma-Shave verses, and erected one set of signs along Route 35, between Albert Lea and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Within weeks, drug stores began running out of Burma-Shave, and ordering more. The next year, Allan and his brother Leonard set up more signs, spreading across Minnesota and into Wisconsin, spending $25,000 that year on signs. Orders poured in, and sales for the year hit $68,000.

 

 

That is AWSOME!

Actually, I do sing when I drive. My daughter; Caitlin Rose, likes it when I sign Old McDoncald, London Bridge is Falling Down, and She'll be Comin' Around the Mountain.

 

Slow down, Pa
Sakes alive
Ma missed signs
Four And five
Burma-Shave

 

Cattle Crossing
Means Go Slow.
That old bull
Is some cow's beau.
Burma Shave

 

Substitutes
Will let you down
Quicker than
A strapless gown
Burma Shave

 

How cool are those??? I love it!!!

 

How true....My strapless gowns always let me down.

They had signs like the Burmas Shave signs promoting firearms rights when I was driving through Indiana or maybe Illinois? last August.

When I was a kid my dad would always sing one song when he would take me with him to the junkyard to get rid of trash from jobs.

Maybe everybody sings it?
They're the only words I've ever heard to the song excepting the hearty Hi Ho Silver! said to a horse at the end??

"To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCO6smQrjJ8



In Streetsyltucky they sing it on the way home from The Wal-Mart Sandy.

 

Here I sit all broken hearted
Tried to...whoops wrong one

 

Pretty cool, thanks for passing it on. I guess I am giving away my age too, but I never heard of burma shave before today.

 

The first time I saw that it was written on the wall of the old 9th hole golfer's rest room shack deal on the former Rockefeller estate park in East Cleveland.
I used to "cut" through there on on the way home from school in second grade.

 

How old where you before you found out the Lone Ranger theme music was the William Tell Overture? For me it was around 12 years old. I am of the generator of pre-TV. First listened to the Lone Ranger on the old Philco radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkymTHSbWe0

 

....."To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump"

.....In Streetsyltucky they sing it on the way home from The Wal-Mart Sandy.



True... how true! You crack me up!


Here I sit all broken hearted
Tried to...whoops wrong one


Speaking of bathroom humor... Here's one I remember seeing somewhere I was at with my mom when I was little...

"No need to stand up on the seat... the crabs in here can jump ten feet!"

I remember asking her - what are crabs mommy? Got the standard answer... nevermind.

I don't think they were crawcrabs, either!

 

In college this was hand written next to the paper dispenser

"Coarse Syllabus take one"

 

Thats funny right there!!!

 

Hey Blue Vista,
You probably saw those gun rights signs reminiscent of the Burma Shave stuff on I-55 in Illinois. There are a couple different sets of those that I'm aware of. Probably right around Atlanta, IL if I remember correctly.

 

Speaking of graffiti

 

I knew it was the William Tell overture, I watched Bugs Bunny.

I wonder if the Shadow knew the Lone Ranger?
He knew about evil lurking and all that stuff?


That were it was! Thanks.
I took my daughter to Quincy U. and it must been on the way there.
I let her take the Megabus and Amtrak back and fourth now.

No...they weren't crawcrabs Sandra.

I saw one that said, " Warning - Don't dispose of toothpicks in the urinals, the crabs can pole vault".

I saw a big juicy steak in the urinal at the Roadhouse steakhouse once, I can only wonder what that story was??

I was always taught to never let good food go to waste so I washed it off in the toilet and it was pretty good eatin'.



I have to show that sign pic to my bro' in law.

I think Ill give him a Dunkin' Donuts gift certificate with a copy of that pic enclosed in the envelope and an Ultimate Cloth for Xmas.

I don't even know if he'll eat a doughnut but too bad, he can re-gift it at work if he doesn't.
He can use the cloth for his gun.

He goes to other cities on vacation just to to dine at their finest gourmet restaurants, weird.

Burger King tastes the same to me wherever I go???

 

On the news last night they were talking about a speed camera installed on a local road. In the first week of operation they sent out over 4500 warnings, now they are sending out tickets. They figure that this one camera alone will rake in over a million dollars in fines in the first year of operation, they say it's not about the money it's about safety so a lot more cameras are going to go in. They will send the tickets to the registered owner. If I had kids at home I would be putting goveners on all the cars limiting the speed to 35. Remember it's not about the money yeah right Big brother at work. I check my office every day looking for cameras.

Hey redgoat I saw you pickin you nose.

 

...I saw one that said, " Warning - Don't dispose of toothpicks in the urinals, the crabs can pole vault".


Now that's funny!!!


I saw a big juicy steak in the urinal at the Roadhouse steakhouse once, I can only wonder what that story was??

I was always taught to never let good food go to waste so I washed it off in the toilet and it was pretty good eatin'.


Now that is disgusting!!!! You ain't right!!!


...Hey redgoat I saw you pickin you nose.


So is that!! But it's funny too!

 

I hate bumper stickers, but I did see I one I liked it said. "If you can read this than your speeding".

 

Did you hear the one about the guy who was driving down the highway when he noticed one of those radar cameras at the side of the road. as he passed by it he noticed that it snapped a picture. Since he knew he was not speeding he decided to circle around and pass by the camera again but this time 5 mph slower. Well the dang thing snapped another picture, so he did it athird time even slower and the same result. On his fith time past the camera he was barely crawling along and as it still went off he finally gave up and decided that if they sent him any speeding tickets he would fight it in court. Well about one week later he got a letter in the mail....inside was 5 citations for not wearing a seatbelt

 

I send out a reconaissance flight of flying scout monkeys to check for black helicopters and always wear a tinfoil hat.

Pickin' my nose??, single or the dual finger technique??
The booger flickin' nationals aren't for months so I wasn't practicing for that yet???

You had to have seen me during lunch or a snack break?.



To avoid traffic camera tickets get a bigfoot, ghost or a UFO and lash it to your hood, nothin' or nobody can get a decent pic of any one of those things.

 

Single or dual finger technique.... Oh My God!!!!

 

I didn't say thumbs at least?



He's saving it for later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gsy4...eature=related

 

Oh for Gods sake......

 

It's a luck thing if you put it on the center of the steering wheel

 

That's gross and disgusting, Wolfie!!! I like your new sig pic!!!

 

Gross and disgusting mmm...mmm...mmm

With gloves on too!

Good old Kurt probably does use the thumb style without gloves on, ever see his schnozola?

It's an addiction, pretty soon he'll be moving up to clown thumbs.
It always starts with the pinky finger and then you build up a resistance.

With gloves and a helmet he should of used the the single finger closed nostril projectile snort w/extended tongue catch style.

He may be a real connoisseur and put it on the wheel to "breathe" for awhile, they do mellow with age.

"I'll eat no slime before it's time"



It really does always go right back to food in these threads anymore doesn't it???

 

One typing finger was occupied! Good God!

Can we get off this subject please????

 

Eeeeeew!!!

Redgoat did it.

 

Eeeeeeeww is right! Redgoat's fault, huh? You crack me up!!!