The Burma-Shave craze reached its zenith during the 1950s, with more than 7,000 signs posted across the United States.

To market Burma-Shave, Allen Odell, an advertising wordsmith, devised the concept of sequential signs to sell his shaving cream. Typically, six signs were erected, with each of the first five containing a line of verse, and the sixth trumpeting the brand name.

Burma-Shave signs appeared in every state except Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. The creative people at Burma-Shave, as well as customers who sent in jingles of their own, ultimately created more than 600 of the rhymes.

In the world of advertising, Burma-Shave stood as unique, creating signs that became a part of the popular culture.

Although the Burma-Shave company is no more, these fun little rhymes hold great nostalgic value for those of us who fondly remember them from our Sunday drives.

For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or read Malory Towers as a kid. St Brides is the perfect read for you. When Gemma Lamb takes a job at a quirky English girls' boarding school, she believes she's found the perfect escape route from her controlling boyfriend - until she discovers the rest of the staff are hiding sinister secrets: Hairnet, the eccentric headmistress who doesn't hold with academic qualifications Oriana Bliss, Head of Maths and master of disguise Joscelyn Spryke, the suspiciously rugged Head of PE Geography teacher Mavis Brook, surreptitiously selling off the library books creepy night watchman Max Security, with his network of hidden tunnels Even McPhee, the school cat, is leading a double life. Tucked away in the school's beautiful private estate in the Cotswolds, can Gemma stay safe and build a new independent future, or will past secrets catch up with her and the rest of the staff? With a little help from her new friends, including some wise pupils, she's going to give it her best shot... Previously published by Debbie Young as Secrets at St Bride's.

Una serie de historias cortas y disquisiciones sobre el diario vivir llevados al lector de una manera llana... Cautivantes di logos llenos de jocosidad, eso es lo que nos trae el autor en esta edici n. Usted quedara atrapado en este libro de interesantes relatos y no podr despegarse de l hasta llegar al final donde el Dr. Froilan se embarca en un tierno e hilarante dialogo sobre el bien y el mal, nada menos que con su nieto de cinco a os. Fascinante

1975 Kenny fell in love with motorcycles; it was his gateway to freedom. Motorcycles were a big part of his life, and in 2008 a near fatal motorcycle vs car accident changed his life forever. This book details the events of his life and struggles with rehabilitation.

A THIRD BONUS SECTION (Part 3) Secondarily Titled -- "Three Combined Life Altering Book Titles that You Cannot Live Without " Are you ready to read literature of a magnitude, that is literally 'brain flipping'? Here is what you get within the pages of this magnificent book containing over 10,492 words * * * PART ONE: "5 Steps To Becoming a Chick Magnet Over Night " Table of Contents -- CHAPTER ONE Tell Chicks Who You are Interested in, that You are an Heir to the Bill Gates Fortune CHAPTER TWO Tell Your Babely Love Interest that You are a Cousin to Elvis Presley or Some Other Male Sex Symbol CHAPTER THREE Convince Chicks that You are Sensitive and In Touch with Your Feminine Side CHAPTER FOUR Make Sure that They See You are Athletic and Demonstrate Your Manly Bravery to Them CHAPTER FIVE Prove to Your 'Attractee' that You are Not Still Dependent on Your Mother * * * PART TWO: "Writing Books that Won't Get Blue Meanie Reviews" Table of Contents -- CHAPTER ONE Why People Write Bad Book Reviews Even When They're Not Mad at Anyone CHAPTER TWO Avoid Bad Reviews by Writing a Threatening Introduction CHAPTER THREE Format Your Book in Such a Way as to Stun Readers into Giving you Nothing but Good Reviews MY CONCLUSION * * * PART THREE: "Evolution Can't Be True Because I Don't Like Bananas" Table of Contents -- CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Bananas and Monkeys Among Evolutionists CHAPTER TWO The Theory of Evolution Makes Money for Scientists CHAPTER THREE My Interview with Bigfoot ("I'm Not a Missing Link" He Says ) CHAPTER FOUR If We're Animals We Shouldn't Have Morals In Conclusion: **The History Behind these Comedy/Satire Books**: While my largest base of book titles are on health disorder subjects, I also have a significant number of business-related titles published, as well as many on Christian Bible theology. Before I began publishing in any of these serious genres, which I do feel are my most important ones, I tried my hand at comedy via online articles I wrote in years previous (I created a few short stories during this period as well). Having kept these comedy pieces I wrote, in saved files after taking them offline, I decided to revive them by publishing them in eBook and paperback form. I did have to tweak them and edit them a bit but I managed to give them all that Percy P. III flavor. Of course as real the writer of them (James M. Lowrance), I think they're pretty funny and relatives who I shared them with, confirmed this evaluation -- so I decided to offer them to the world. With them being so different from my serious subject books, I assigned a pen name to them as well, being "Percyvelle Pennington the Third." He seems more like the guy who wrote them, than I do. Percy is a snide type guy and he is arrogant; traits that I hopefully never display in real life He does make his points known in his memoirs but in strangely comical ways. A "cheerful heart is a good medicine" according to the Holy Bible, and "laughter is the best medicine" according to Reader's Digest. My thoughts were, that if I could take a few serious or controversial subjects via my compiled articles and create a little comedy from them that makes people smile or laugh, it would be something worth publishing. With the debates going on within these subjects, between people expressing the pros and cons of them, it is my hope that I can lighten the rhetoric a bit by injecting some humor into them. These booklets ARE NOT intended to offend anyone and if you'll notice, I make fun of everyone in them, via my alter writing personality -- Percy P. III. It is my hope that readers find the medicine of laughter and cheer within the pages of them, so that they can escape the stressors of life for just a little while

Whilst there are enough celebrity connections and anecdotes not to be out of place in an A list autobiography, the real hook of this book is that the author isn t remotely famous. The endearing appeal is that it is the viewpoint of the everyman, but one who has had enough light brushes with celebrity that he has some great tales to tell. These stories, anecdotes and musings are seamlessly woven into what for many of us will be a memory jogging, laughter inducing remembrance of some of the major, as well as quainter, stranger and more trivial moments of pop culture over the last few decades. If you love pop music and pop culture, feared the Daleks, the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and mourn the demise of Pez, Cresta, conkers as a rite of passage, jokes on lolly sticks, Top of the Pops and pink vinyl limited edition LP s, then you will surely enjoy this. Please beware This book may waste days (if not weeks) of your life as almost every paragraph will have you frantically typing into your search engine and getting lost, on what may turn out to be an endless Internet Safari. This book contains some adult humour. Best Wishes and Good Luck with your writing Ben Elton"