Was not amusing. "The same thing happened to me that happened to Burma-Shave," Legueri reported. "My tips are way up and I'm getting a large amount of Burma-Shave-type poems from my customers." ...

Inspired by the old ad campaign for Burma Shave, where jingles were posted on the sides of roads, and by Orlando having posted poems in trees declaring his love for Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As ...

The Empress was besought recently to give another go to a contest we last did 12 years ago: It's for mini-poems written in the style of the old Burma-Shave ads, which used to appear on pre ...

America’s road sign legends Burma-Shave's rhyming ads turned highway billboards into poetry, and changed advertising -- and America ...

The idea for the poem was based on the Burma-Shave roadside ad campaigns plastered across the country for some 40 years. Starting in the 1920s, the brushless shaving cream brand started ...

The poem is a nod to the Burma-Shave ads that were put up all over U.S. roadsides in the 1920s. They were taken down in the '50s, but some recreations still exist—most notably along Route 66.

Three jury-selected poems will be painted on a series of road signs, Burma Shave-style, to be erected at points on the Live Culture Coast route—the southernmost 135 miles from Reedsport to ...

Four poems will be selected for this series, which is modeled on the Burma Shave roadside advertising signs that appeared throughout the country from 1925 to 1963. A Burma Shave poem or jingle ...

Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small, sequential highway billboard signs.

Up to six poems will be selected for this series, which is modeled on the Burma Shave roadside advertising signs that appeared throughout the country from 1925 to 1963. A Burma Shave poem or ...