Subj : Todays Classic Ad
To   : Dennis Katsonis
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 04:45:20


 On 2022 Jan 23 11:09:00, you wrote to me:

 DK>> I have to ask, what is Burma-Shave?

 ml>> https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+burma+shave

 ml>> ;)

 DK> Yes, I know it can be "googled"... *sigh*
 DK> The reason I asked was because a human being could give me context
 DK> that Silicon Valleys BS algorithms can't.

what context is needed other than the definition of what Burma Shave is/was?

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

 DK> Is this a reference to the product, or the Tom Waits music?

the product... why? because all of the Burma Shave quotes are from the signs seen on the roadsides from back in the day...

the Tom Waits song, Burma-Shave, appears to be done in the style of the Burms Shave roadside signs... it is, however, different from the original Burma Shave song written by Roger Miller in 1961 and covered by several other artists/groups...


FWIW: all of the above was gleaned in about 10 minutes from exactly that original google search link i presented ;)

)\/(ark

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