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   -=> mark lewis wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-   
      
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    ml>  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.   
      
    ml> what context is needed other than the definition of what Burma Shave   
    ml> is/was?   
      
    ml> "Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous   
    ml> for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small   
    ml> sequential highway roadside signs."   
      
    DK> Is this a reference to the product, or the Tom Waits music?   
      
    ml> the product... why? because all of the Burma Shave quotes are from the   
    ml> signs seen on the roadsides from back in the day...   
      
    ml> the Tom Waits song, Burma-Shave, appears to be done in the style of the   
    ml> Burms Shave roadside signs... it is, however, different from the   
    ml> original Burma Shave song written by Roger Miller in 1961 and covered   
    ml> by several other artists/groups...   
      
      
    ml> FWIW: all of the above was gleaned in about 10 minutes from exactly   
    ml> that original google search link i presented ;)   
      
    I'm Australian, so all this is new to me.  Burma-shave appears in every Ad of   
   the Day, so it must be important I presume.  I never actually heard of it   
   before, unlike many other American ads I can identify.  So to me, it seems to   
   have a special relevance here on Fidonet.  Which is why I asked people here.   
      
   I mean, if you saw me on a message board with other Aussies saying "Ridgey   
   Didge" you COULD google what it means, but it doesn't answer why we   
   specifically, in that forum you are in, are saying it.  (especially if you   
   haven't actually hard other Aussies say it).   
      
      
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