Burma Shave
We continue our series of Burma Shave rhymes from the signs by the side of the road. I think my first two illustrations are actually pretty close to what the Burma Shave rhyme writers had in mind, but I suspect the last two aren't what they were thinking. Today's Burma Shave rhymes are all from 1935.
I just joined
The young man said
A nudist camp
Is my face red?
No! I use
Burma-Shave
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Whiskers long
Made Samson strong
But Samson's gal
She done
Him wrong
Burma-Shave
(Above, Samson and Delilah by Max Liebermann, 1909. In the Biblical story, she cuts off Samson's hair, not his whiskers, but we'll allow the Burma Shave guys a little poetic license.)
You know
Your onions
Lettuce suppose
This beets 'em all
Don't turnip your nose
Burma-Shave
The happy golfer
Finds with glee
The shave
That suits him
To a tee
Burma-Shave
Next time: more Burma Shave rhymes.
6 comments:
Great post. The nude golfer, by the way, in the last photo is Brooks Koepka. Several years ago he was featured in the ESPN "Body Issue." Enjoyed knowing that he went "full nude" on an actual golf course to make the photos.
Fun!
I saw an old, old TV ad on FB last week, from 1962 (I think), about WD-40. Frickin' hilarious!
You're very clever.
This is fun! I am glad you are doing more.
Ogden Nash might be open to some imaginative naked-guy interpretation also.
@Ike - Ogden Nash has been a rich source for my "poem of the day" series and more. To see how I've used his poems, type Ogden Nash in the Search This Blog field.
The artist of the Samson-and-Delilah picture, like many people, hasn't checked the Bible story. In the King James Version, Judges 16:19 says:
"And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him."
Delilah didn't do the haircut herself; she got a male barber to do it.
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