Burma Shave Today

Remember those beloved sequential roadside signs that first appeared in 1925, along country highways and byways. Here’s what they look like today.

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Remember these original signs:

She raised Cain
When he raised stubble
Guess what
Smoothed away
Their Trouble?
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My job is
Keeping faces clean
And nobody knows
De Stubble
I’ve Seen
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On curves ahead
Remember, sonny
That rabbit’s foot
Didn’t save
The Bunny
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Short, stiff hair
Is what we’re after
We make no
Claims on
The hereafter
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Today’s billboards:

His combover hides
His stubble and brows
But hold on Martha
He’s scaring
The sows
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Putin’s shaves
Are very close
But our Pres says
His hair grows
The most
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They are no more
Hicks, Gates, and Flynn
But think of
Manafort and Cohen
And the trouble they're in
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Those daily Tweets
Are all the rage
But his
Orange hair
Reveals his age
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