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A brush-off.(Selling it: goofs / glitches / gotchas)(Brief Article)
Behold Burma-Shave, a venerable name that's still being used. Here, it showed up in a catalog from The Vermont Country Store, to sell a bristle brush and soap. Problem is, the original Burma-Shave was a cream and was sold as an improvement over mug-and-brush shaving, a sharp-eyed Texas reader points out. "These people," he writes, "are marketing the very thing that ...
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