Time To Be Creative! Burma Shave Signs

[Dirt]

“BurmaShaveSigns Route66”. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurmaShaveSigns_Route66.jpg#/media/File:BurmaShaveSigns_Route66.jpg

Hey forum people. The PAL Ambassadors have been making Burma Shave signs for future block party events. What we found at last week’s Wine, Cheese and Poetry party was that it was a lot of fun and also therapeutic. What would you like to say to drivers? Make a funny poem/rhyme/jingle about it. Many we can’t use because of their content. Honestly, those are some of the funniest ones.

If you have a little time, come up with one or two! Let your mind go and have fun with this. I’ll share some examples.

If you don’t know what a Burma Shave Sign is, the image at the top is one from Wikipedia. Here’s there article on them.

Keep in mind that the audience is drivers. The subject is safe streets and being Predictable, Alert and Lawful.

Thanks!

[Dirt]

Don’t be a stinker
Use your blinker

++++++++++++++++

Model safety
Show your kids
Exactly what
Good driving is.

+++++++++++++++

Be Sweet
Keep away 3 feet

++++++++++++++++

Put down the phone
Just leave it alone
And we can all
Get Safely home

[baiskeli]

I don’t care if you’re
A car or a trucker
Give me 3 feet when you pass me
You stupid…..

That’s as far as I got. I’ll think of a rhyme eventually and get back to you.

[Dirt]

Bwahahahaha! PERFECT! “Pucker” doesn’t really make sense though.

[Mikey]

To you I may just be
a man on a bike
but to my loving family
I’m the Dad they really like

[Tim Kelley]

mikey;118987 wrote:

to you i may just be
a man on a bike
but to my loving family
i’m the dad they really like

love this

[bobco85]

Fun use of a work break; I’m sure more will pop into my head as the day goes on. Here’s what I have made so far (I think some of these would work on trails, too):

Sharing spaces
Safer places
Happy faces

---

Look both ways
Live more days

---

P’s and Q’s
Make nicer U’s

---

A good fellow
Slows on yellow

---

Look before
Right on red
So no one
Ends up dead

---

Used a light
Seen at night

---

Try a bell
before a yell

---

When he yells
His breath smells

---

If you want
To give a shout
Count to 10
Try it out

[dasgeh]

You guys are good at this. Can you do a crosswalk one?

[Tania]

Keeping in mind sign size and body to sign ratio…

We’re trying to
Get Home Safe
Just like you

[bentbike33]

@baiskeli 118984 wrote:

I don’t care if you’re
A car or a trucker
Give me 3 feet when you pass me
You stupid…..

chicken plucker.

[Mikey]

@bentbike33 118994 wrote:

chicken plucker.

“Darius Rucker?”

[dbb]

@baiskeli 118984 wrote:

I don’t care if you’re
A car or a trucker
Give me 3 feet when you pass me
You stupid…..

That’s as far as I got. I’ll think of a rhyme eventually and get back to you.

If you accept the fact that a car (thing) is different than a trucker (person) I can save you a couple of syllables.

in a car or truck
three feet please
you …

[paulg]

This one doesn’t rhyme but I still like it. It was painted on a retaining wall on a hairpin bend on a road leading up to Darjeeling in India

Better to be 15 minutes late in this world
Than 15 minutes early in the next

[bentbike33]

@dbb 118997 wrote:

in a car or in a truck
three feet please
you …

…hockey puck.

FIFY

— Don Rickles

[dasgeh]

How about:
To peeps in the crosswalk
You should yield
Because these peeps
Don’t come with a force field

Bonus points for visuals

[Author]

Posts