Subj : Re: Todays Classic Ad
To   : Mortar M.
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Sep 03 2025 18:28:54

 >  On this day...
 >     The more
 >     You shave
 >     The brushless way
 >     The more you'll be
 >     Inclined to say--
 >     Burma-Shave

 MM> A little explanation would be helpful for those not in the
 MM> know. 

  Well, this is the MEMORIES echo, or so I thought.

  First, it was started years ago on FIDONet, and had several
moderators come and go. The last one was Joe Mackey, but I think
he lost his battle with cancer.

  I had dropped the BBS networks just over a year ago, as I was
starting to get burned out. Then, after my younger brother's
suicide 14 months ago, I ended up having a nervous breakdown,
and a panic attack, that landed me in the psychiatric ward for
a week...where they fed us 2000 calories a MEAL...NOT a DAY...
as if WE were the turkeys being fattened up for Thanksgiving.

  After my release, a fellow ham radio operator told me that 
"You have an excuse to be sane...the rest of us aren't so
lucky". <G>

  But, the burnout climaxed in early December, 2024, and I shut
the BBS down, because I just needed some time away from it. With
Windows 10 support ending in October, 2025, I thought the BBS
would end up going away, because it was on my late Mom's computer,
and it wouldn't run under Windows 11, as the motherboard and CPU
were too old.

  Fellow Sysop and ham radio operator Dave Perussel, gifted me
a BeeLink mini computer, with a special built version of NTVDM64
on it, and a Synchronet Setup, where I could run the BBS on it.
After a stormy spring and summer (I get hellacious lightning
around here during storms), I finally got to get to work on
bringing the system back online after an extended hiatus.

  Now, to the crux of the message.

  Years ago, there was a company called Burma-Vita that made
shaving products for men, known as Burma Shave. Their ads were
painted on signs at certain intervals as one went down the road
on vacation or otherwise. More details are at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

Daryl



.... Blondes have more fun, but redheads have more pizazz.
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