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| − | This comic | + | This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These adds used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being Burma Shave, the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages. |
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Revision as of 23:09, 13 March 2013
 Title text: If long tooltips / cut you off / then upgrade from / firefox 2 / Burma Shave |
Explanation
This comic plays off of an old shaving cream product's advertising campaign employed on American highways from 1925 to 1963. These adds used short poems, each line arranged sequentially on a sign along a highway, the last line always being Burma Shave, the name of the shaving cream. Originally these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages.
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Transcript
- [Cueball is sitting in a caster office chair typing onto a smartphone]
- Beep Beep'
- Phone: "On Twitter Feeds"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "An odd regression"
- [More Typing]
- Phone: "Ancient Memes"
- [More Typing]
- Phone: "Find new expression"
- [More typing]
- Phone: "Burma Shave"
add a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ 
refresh comments!Discussion
Just end every sentence in Burma Shave Spongebog (talk)
- Never tried this/It could work/I just need an idea/Wait, crap./Burma-Shave
Are we sure that Cueball is typing? It seems to me that he is getting a series of texts (or a series of tweets), because of the "Beep Beep" sound: cell phones typically don't beep when typing. --Troy0 (talk) 09:25, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
- I have to agree, add in that the zig-zag is used for external text usually, like the other end of a call. 173.245.56.154 20:35, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- The transcript was accordingly edited. --Troy0 (talk) 04:05, 25 July 2014 (UTC
I don't think the title text explanation is correct. He's not suggesting you upgrade to "Burma Shave" - he's saying, "Upgrade from Firefox 2". Burma Shave just follows. I'll edit it. --108.162.216.54 12:55, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
This comic not appearing for me on the xkcd.com website, anyone else? 162.158.122.6 20:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC) For sale: baby shoes, never worn
