Fun:Burma

Mission of Burma: the non-missional Burma

Uses of "Burma"

• Back of an envelope — B.U.R.M.A. — Be upstairs ready my angel

alternatively — Be undressed ready my angel

• BURMA!
• Burma Shave, an American brushless shaving lather tradename of the 20^th century, known for its humorous roadside advertisements that came in series of five or six small signs (a poem followed by "Burma Shave"). The signs appeared from 1925 through 1963.

Some of them were straight advertising pitches with twisted wordplay:

Dinah doesn't

Treat him right

But if he'd shave

Dinah-mite!

Burma Shave

Some were more jokey:

It would be fun

To go by air

But we can't hang

Our signs up there

Burma Shave

Others were like public service announcements:

Many a forest

Used to stand

Where a lighted match

Got out of hand

Burma Shave

• The Burmese Mission to the United Nations is known for its academy fight song, its promotion of the artist Max Ernst, its opposition to gun control, and its role in the Peking Spring