The one that was still lingering on 66 when I was a little bitty thing, and we used to drive it to save the $1.50 or whatever on the turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, went like this:
Twinkle, twinkle
One-eyed car
We all wonder
Where you are
Burma-Shave!
Enjoy ‘em while you can. Won’t be long before they’ll be classed as ‘political terrorism’ and having one will get you a stint in Guantanamo – without the orange-glazed chicken.
BTW, aelfheld, I’ve been meaning to ask, what’s the story on your avatar? I always imagine your posts sounding like the voice of the apocalyptic space phenomenon in THE FIFTH ELEMENT.
@CK MacLeod – My tricksy sense of humour at play as much as anything. It’s an infrared composite of an unusual stellar feature known as the Red Square Nebula.
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and won’t they look fine when you bring them into the yard when you go for exercise.
you might even get a second term out of it your own self.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Yay! Unfortunately, I don’t have a front lawn, but I want one anyway.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I want a whole set. Set ‘em up like the old Burma-Shave sequential signs on Route 66.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
The one that was still lingering on 66 when I was a little bitty thing, and we used to drive it to save the $1.50 or whatever on the turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, went like this:
Twinkle, twinkle
One-eyed car
We all wonder
Where you are
Burma-Shave!
August 7th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Enjoy ‘em while you can. Won’t be long before they’ll be classed as ‘political terrorism’ and having one will get you a stint in Guantanamo – without the orange-glazed chicken.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
@aelfheld – see comment 1
August 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1950/on_curves_ahead
A Burma Shave-style campaign effort would be terrific, actually. Well I’d enjoy it anyway. Don’t know how many votes it would move.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
BTW, aelfheld, I’ve been meaning to ask, what’s the story on your avatar? I always imagine your posts sounding like the voice of the apocalyptic space phenomenon in THE FIFTH ELEMENT.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
@fuster – I caught that. Just tossing in my 2¢.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
@CK MacLeod – My tricksy sense of humour at play as much as anything. It’s an infrared composite of an unusual stellar feature known as the Red Square Nebula.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
What’s the story behind the CKM guy who looks like a South African Miner or somethin’ like that?
I’m sorry if it’s really you, Colin, but methinks it might come from some ad for anti bump shaving cream, or somethin’ like that.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
should have saved the placenta instead.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Zoltan, didn’t I already tell you it’s THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING?
Alright – I’ll change to a different impotentate. Get ready to clean your cache again.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@aelfheld – art lover, eh?
(and that’s two shiny new pennies I owe you.)
August 7th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
@CK MacLeod – Don’t change it. It might be helpful, as a diagnostic aid, to see if he asks again tomorrow.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Hey, Cornelius, get out of my avatar you damn dirty ape!
August 7th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
It’s your planet, Tsar, the rest of us only unlive here.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
How can we unlive if we’re undead? It’s all very confusing.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
@Peter Shalen – Confusing indeed. This sort of cutting-edge thing is only knowable under what Zombie philosophists call Episiotomy.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@fuster – Keep ‘em. May be the only change you can believe in.
August 8th, 2009 at 9:24 am
@Peter Shalen – I join you in your confusion. The limbo thing isn’t really working for me.
August 8th, 2009 at 12:37 pm