Time To Be Creative! Burma Shave Signs

[Dirt]

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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!

Topic

[scoot]

Friday afternoon in the office… time for some limericks:

If you can’t seem to drive on this block,
Without using your phone for a talk,
Then you’re putting a stranger
In very grave danger
You could hit someone out for a walk.

If you’re always in such a mad dash,
You could be the cause of a crash
If your foot’s full of lead
Then a bike or a ped
becomes blood stained all over your dash.

A little girl wonders, “where’s my dad?”
When she learns, she will break down and cry, sad,
Because dad’s bike was hit
By an arrogant twit
Who thought he could drive with his iPad.

Here’s more of a Burma shave meter:

Please hang up your phone
and don’t send that text.
Have any idea
what’s coming up next?
Pedestrian crossing
Is right up ahead
If you are distracted
Someone will be dead

Definitely leaning toward the morbid here. I suppose it’s tough to be light-hearted while conveying the proper message though…

[Dirt]

@scoot 119084 wrote:

Friday afternoon in the office… time for some limericks:
Definitely leaning toward the morbid here. I suppose it’s tough to be light-hearted while conveying the proper message though…

Morbid plays well if people are smiling and laughing when they deliver it.

Thanks Scoot! You are awesome.

[dkel]

Drop that phone
Eyes ahead
Can’t get home
If you’re dead

[Starduster]

The short ones are better- quicker to create, quicker to read (remember we’re competing with I phones, GPS, visual distractions, and short attention spans), and are halfway to Haiku.

[dkel]

Ride a bike?
Drive a car?
Share the road…
You’ll go far!

[KLizotte]

Keep your eyes on the road
For all those untold
Bikers, runners, and walkers
Do not be a cellphone talker!

[scoot]

@dkel 119099 wrote:

Drop that phone
Eyes ahead
Can’t get home
If you’re dead

This one wins my vote. Great combination of brevity, meter, rhyme, and message.

[Steve O]

Okay, I’m in. Here’s a few:

Out on the streets
Take your time and behave
(or: Be a PAL and behave)
You may get a smile
And a big, friendly wave

Getting to home
That’s all that I wished
You looked at your phone
Now I am squished

Texting is great
YouTube is good
Don’t look at your phone
Or I’ll bounce off your hood

Late for a meeting
It’s down to the wire
Pay attention, though, Dude
Or I’ll be under your tire

C’mon, be Predictable
Be Alert and be Lawful
If you’re not a PAL
The results may be awful

I could do this all day! But I suppose I should do some actual work, maybe.

[wheelswings]

When you pay your tab and leave the bar,
Please take a cab and not your car.

Please don’t text, or dig in your purse
Or we’ll be riding home by hearse.

Use caution at the wheel
So you don’t put the children on wheels [insert wheelchair symbol here].

[Crickey7]

I can’t find anything that rhymes with Courtland Milloy or Lon Anderson.

[Steve O]

@Crickey7 119424 wrote:

I can’t find anything that rhymes with Courtland Milloy or Lon Anderson.

All the cyclists:
Dead & gone.
If the pols, they listened
to Anderson, Lon

[Steve O]

@Crickey7 119424 wrote:

I can’t find anything that rhymes with Courtland Milloy or Lon Anderson.

When you drive
Be real chill, boy
Don’t be compared
to Courtland Milloy

[americancyclo]

@Steve O 119429 wrote:

All the cyclists:
Dead & gone.
If the pols, they listened
to Anderson, Lon

Stuck in Traffic?
Here all day?
Just thank Lon
and the Triple-A

[dkel]

@Crickey7 119424 wrote:

I can’t find anything that rhymes with Courtland Milloy or Lon Anderson.

“No, bikes aren’t fun!”
“They’re meant to annoy,”
Says Anderson
And Courtland Milloy

Or better:

Ride bikes for fun
And then you’ll annoy
Lon Anderson
And Courtland Milloy

[Kitty]

How fun! Let’s see, for an uplifting one how about:

We share the same road
Mile upon mile
Let’s lighten the load
With a wave and a !

Annnnd for the daily gripe:

The bollards are here
To keep you off my back
So please keep your rear
Outta our cycle track!

[Author]

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