Re: Eisner doesn't know shiite from Shinola!

Chris Sobieniak wrote:
> 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).

Actually jingles rather than limericks. Limericks have an AAbbA 
rhyme scheme, with the "b" lines being a little shorter as well, and 
all seem to concern young men from Nantucket.

> > 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!

[In England, that is.]

> > 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!) 

And it is a good illustration of a limerick, even though it doesn't 
concern Nantucket.

(Concerning the subject line: Shinola is a shoe polish, and Shiite 
is a member of a religious group. No similarity. That Eisner must be 
a big silly.)

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