Burma-Shave
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Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.
1940s Burma-Shave tube and box
Preserved set of U.S. Route 66 signs promoting Burma-Shave
Kilroy was here
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Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti – though its origin predates its use in graffiti by several decades. Its origin is debated, but the phrase
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…mission, a parody of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas written by Ken Young was transmitted to the mission, which referenced "A Burma-Shave sign saying 'Kilroy was here'." List of defunct consumer brands…
Engraving of Kilroy on the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
A depiction of Kilroy on a piece of the Berlin Wall in the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Israeli soldier sleeping during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chad is seen on the wall together with inscription "Wot? No Arabs", November 1948.
Comrades had drawn Chad together with the statement "What no women", the head of Donald Duck and the word "Jampie" on the back of a rain jacket of a Dutch soldier, 1948.