Re: Eisner doesn't know shiite from Shinola!

On Tue, Dec 2, 2003, 9:28pm (EST+5), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chika) wrote:
>In article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>on.webtv.net>,   Chris
Sobieniak
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Yeah, I know my Shinola...
>>Heh, next thing you know we'll do a Burma Shave
>>limberick. ^_^
>Tilt!!! O.o

Heh, for those out there born after the Baby Boomer period, Burma Shave
was a company that sold shaving cream and other shaving items that had a
very innovative marketing ploy in the early-to-mid 20th Century.  They
would put up a series of 5-signs in a row that dotted the early highways
and backroads of America with a clever and catchy limberick that ended
with "Burma Shave" as the 5th stanza.  Many different limbericks were
created and written on these signs that stayed around until around the
1950's or 60's.  Some cartoons also referenced this phenomenon as well,
but it's legacy has faded into obscurity today (the namesake lives on
through some items I do see in the stores).

>It hasn't been the same for me since Mars insisted
>on renaming the Marathon bar "Snickers" so that
>Americans wouldn't be confused by it when they
>came over here. Or that's the excuse they gave,
>anyway.

I didn't even know "Snickers" had another name.  ^_^

I learn something new everyday!

>A sailor out in the Sargasso,
>Mistakenly partook of Brasso.
>When he next took a dump,
>The act caused him to jump,
>For his caca was polished like glass-o!
(OK, OK, so it sucks, but it *was* spur of the
>moment!)
>--
>  //\ // Chika <miyuki at crashnet.org.uk> // \//

That's OK.  I laughed anyway.

>From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak

--"Fightin' the Frizzies since 1978"--