Subject: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Billy Date: 12 Mar 08 - 10:21 PM I have always enjoyed witty Graffitti. I think my favorite was in the men's room in the No Exit Cafe in Evanston, Illinois. High up on the wall near the ceiling in squiggly writing it said "Help! I've tripped and I can't get down!" Anybody got any other good ones? |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Stranger Date: 12 Mar 08 - 10:25 PM Above a urinal: "What are you looking here for? The joke is in your hand." I am also a fan of elaborate drawings, usually sexual in nature, and mostly done by Puerto Ricans. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Phil Cooper Date: 12 Mar 08 - 11:51 PM There was a phrase written over one of those cheap condom machines stating: "This gum tastes awful." |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Micca Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:52 AM The one I always liked was written carefully above the Toilet paper roll in the gents at a University where I worked It said "Sociology degrees please take one!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Deckman Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:54 AM Also in a men's room at a university: "URINE URINE!" Bob |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: JennieG Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:07 AM From the door in a womens' toilet in Canberra, Oz: "Work like you don't need money Dance like no one's watching Love like you've never been hurt And f**k like you're being filmed......" love it! Cheers JennieG |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Deckman Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:21 AM Also: "Urine analysis" bob |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Brakn Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:26 AM Seen in Manchester years ago - "Guy Fawkes was right!" In a Swindon factory - "Please flush the chain - some people will eat anything." |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Jack Blandiver Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:30 AM In the gents toilet at the long gone Backworth Station, Northumberland, circa 1972: Some come here to sit and think Whilst others come to shit and stink; But I come here to scratch my balls, and read the writing on the walls. And the memorable scrawl on the hoardings in Newcastle when they were tearing the old city apart in the building of the monstrous Eldon Square shopping concourse, circa 1973 (?): Coshas the name agros the game bovva and agro they both mean the same And last, but not least, spotted on a skip in Esh Winning, County Durham, in 2003, in glorious fresh red spray paint: The Beatles are shit |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Deckman Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:42 AM Also: "URINE DEEP SHIT BOY!" me |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Ted Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:50 AM One seen in the Gents while I was on jury service: Here I sit, broken hearted Paid a penny & only farted And below in a different hand: Here I sit, sly & artful never paid & done a cartful |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Mar 08 - 06:23 AM Deja Poo---The feeling you've heard all this shit before Everybody pisses on the floor. Be a hero and shit on the ceiling. It takes the human body about 24 hours to turn good food into shit. It only takes McDonald's 5 minutes. Written above the toilet: Download IE here Spaw |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Big Mick Date: 13 Mar 08 - 07:18 AM Written on the wall of the restroom at Great Lakes Naval Station in 1969: Flush twice. It's a long way to the chow hall Mick |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Deckman Date: 13 Mar 08 - 08:10 AM "Don't stand on the seat ... our crabs jump 50 feet"! Seen in a lumber yard restroom in 1953 ... yes, I've a long memory! Bob |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Bob L Date: 13 Mar 08 - 09:42 AM Life is like a sh*t sandwich - the more bread you got, the better. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: The PA Date: 13 Mar 08 - 10:12 AM Seen in a UK pub: 'my mother made me a homosexual' and written in another hand underneath: 'if I get her the wool would she make me one too?' |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: fat B****rd Date: 13 Mar 08 - 10:15 AM Written on a wall "What is it good for?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Peace Date: 13 Mar 08 - 10:55 AM On a wall was 'I like grils'. Someone came along, scratched out the misspelled word and wrote 'girls'. Someone else came along and wrote, "What about us grils?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: mack/misophist Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:06 AM At the gym I go to, somebody took a sign from the weight rack and mounted it over the urinals: "If you can lift it you can put it away." Dear Peace, Shouldn't that be 'with thanks to Frederick Brown'? |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Mr Happy Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:13 AM "Do not throw chewing gum in the urinals, please adhere to this notice" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Peace Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:16 AM Don't know, m/m. Something I read in a book decades ago. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Midchuck Date: 13 Mar 08 - 11:17 AM In a truck stop in Vermont: Here I sit upon the pooper, Making a Vermont state trooper. Of course, it would work for any state whose name had two syllables with the accent on the second... Peter |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:20 PM Don't throw your fag-ends in the loo You know it isn't right It makes them very soggy And impossible to light |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:23 PM But seriously.... my favourite piece of graffiti was more poignant than funny, written in huge letters along 100 feet of fence perfectly visible from the traffics jams on the nearby M40 heading towards London) WHY DO I STILL DO THIS EVERY DAY? |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: frogprince Date: 13 Mar 08 - 12:35 PM In the restroom of a Chicago pizza place: The pizza here is awful! I'd rather eat the waitress. I did; the pizza is better! |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: The Walrus Date: 13 Mar 08 - 01:01 PM Reported from the toilets at Warwick University (?) Coventry (late '60s) There's more pleasure in a good shit than in all the world's literature From Southall College (late '70s) I'm into sadism, necrophilia and beastiality - Am I flogging a dead horse? underneath had been added No. Just a very old Joke A variant on Deckman's "..."Don't stand on the seat ... our crabs jump 50 feet"!..." seen in the Latrines at a TA Camp It's no good standing on the seat The crabs in here can jump six feet to which was added, in another hand If you think that's rather high Go next door, the bastards fly Surely one of the most seen graffitos was that painted on a wall outside Paddington Station. Far away is close at hand in images of eleswhere W |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Bert Fegg Date: 13 Mar 08 - 02:39 PM Some famous UK graffiti. 'Marples Must Go', painted on a bridge over the M1 somewhere in the Herts/Beds area and still visible many years after dear Ernest had gone. 'M. KAHN IS BENT', which appeared for many years scrawled on a railway bridge over the North Circular Road in outer London. For some more visit (including others from the US) visit http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2290 . |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Bert Fegg Date: 13 Mar 08 - 03:07 PM But this story beats all graffiti - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337232,00.html. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Irene M Date: 13 Mar 08 - 03:51 PM 1) At a motorway service station in the 70s; Sign saying WAY OUT BIRMINGHAM to which had been added "man". 2) At bottom of loo door; "Beware the phantom limbo dancer" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Mar 08 - 03:57 PM Next to a urinal in a restaurant: "We aim to please. You aim, too, please." --not exactly graffiti because it was (supposedly) put up by the management. By the way, my spell-checker tells me "graffiti" has only one "t". |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Schantieman Date: 13 Mar 08 - 03:58 PM On a bridge over the M57 just NW of Liverpool until recently was, unaccountably, "The Pies The Pies" Anyone shed any light on that one? Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Lox Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:03 PM Don't know if it's still there or not, haven't been for a while, but there used to be graffiti near the archway tavern in Holloway (london) saying "ken dodd's dad's dead". I once read: Rousseau - to do is to be Sartre - to be is to do Sinatra - do be do be do |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,lox Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:05 PM Railway Bridges everywhere had "shout gouranga - be happy" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Gurney Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:10 PM Composed, I think, by the foreman of a garage I worked in: If your arse is wrongly made, so that, when you shit, it comes out sprayed, don't worry that you're not like us. Just clean it up, you dirty cuss! It wan't me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:40 PM I remember when the new library opened at Macalester College, my alma mater—it must have been 20+ years ago now—I went to explore the building soon after it opened. It was equipped with all the latest technology. For instance, several parts of the building—the "stacks" and the rest rooms for example—were equipped with motion detectors so that the lights would be automatically turned off if no one appeared to be using the facilities in those areas. Faucets would turn on automatically when you put your hands under them. To save space, some bookshelves were suspended from tracks in the ceiling, so they could be moved closer together or farther apart as needed. I had never seen such things before. On the wall above a urinal, I saw a very official-looking metallic-colored sticker that said something like this: "Warning! Any urine deposited in this facility is subject to immediate and automatic chemical analysis. If traces of cannabis or other illegal drugs are detected, an alarm will go off, and officers will be summoned…(etc.)" Remember, this was in the days before most people had access to word processors, laser printers and so on, and therefore, if a sign looked official, it probably was. I had to think about this quite a while before became convinced, "Nah, this can't be real." I then decided it was a very good practical joke, perhaps the best I had ever seen. The part that I have a hard time conveying—because I can't remember the actual wording of the sign—is that it was written in very convincing legalese or bureaucratese, whatever you call it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Mar 08 - 04:47 PM On a bridge near the University of Minnesota, someone scrawled in very large letters: "A leprechaun but a leper can't." It stayed there for many years, visible to all passing traffic, and it had almost acquired landmark status by the time the bridge was torn down. I miss it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Raggytash Date: 13 Mar 08 - 05:15 PM On a street sign "St Peters Square" ........... and so is the Pope .......... Circa 1960's |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 13 Mar 08 - 06:01 PM About two inches from the ceiling, above the urinal in a Buffalo pub restroom: If you can piss this high, the Buffalo Fire department wants you. Seamus |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 13 Mar 08 - 06:40 PM Here's a picture of one of the most remarkable examples of graffiti - on the walls of the last Tin Mine in Cornwall when it closed in 1998- Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do? (It's from Roger Bryant's song "Cornish Lads") |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Joe_F Date: 13 Mar 08 - 08:54 PM I do not like this place at all: The stool is too high, and the seat is too small. -- You open yourself to a simple retort: Your ass is too big, and your legs are too short. Assholes have their uses. To shithouse artists when they die, We'll build it long and broad and high, In tribute to their mirth and wit: A monument of solid shit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: GUEST,Billy Date: 14 Mar 08 - 12:33 AM Great replies. Some I have never seen. One more, written at the bottom of the stall door: "If you can read this, you are now shitting at an angle of 45 degrees". |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: autolycus Date: 14 Mar 08 - 01:15 AM On a notice ar work that began,"Please do not stand on the bowl (etc.)", someone added, 'or juggle'. I thought that masterly. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Skivee Date: 14 Mar 08 - 02:16 AM The Morman Temple in Maryland sits nestled in a wooded grove on the north of the DC Beltway. It looks much like a well-known castle from a well-known film. For many years drivers could read graffitti on a nearby overpass:"Surrender Dorothy". I ocassionally entertain the idea of sneaking onto the grounds and dropping green filters over the lights. So far, reason has won out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Bryn Pugh Date: 14 Mar 08 - 06:28 AM From a Northern College in the 70s Man United Rule OK and in a different, neater hand underneath You cunts couldn't rule a straight line with a T-square. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: mandotim Date: 14 Mar 08 - 06:35 AM One I like; 'I hate Graffitti' and underneath... 'I hate all Italian food!' Tim |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Moses Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:20 AM l o l o a q i c i 8 2 q b 4 i p can't remember where I saw it but it was a long time ago. I am told that during the 2nd world war when there were shortages of all kinds in Britain, notices appeared in some Government establishments that were meant for the office staff. However, the notices were removed and placed in the lavatories above the toilet paper dispensers. They read:- "There is a National shortage of paper, please use both sides" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: theleveller Date: 14 Mar 08 - 08:37 AM I remember seeing, in the loo of a very smart Knightsbridge restaurant in the 1960s: 'Lady Antonia Fraser is jolly randy'. Perhaps my favourite of all pub bog graffitti is: 'You don't buy Watney's beer, just rent it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Mr Red Date: 14 Mar 08 - 09:51 AM on a condom machine Buy me and stop one (after the Ice Cream Slogan) and under it Buy Two and be One Jump Ahead. And I am told that in Pompeii they found a wall with all the usual dross like "I visited Persephone last night and she was exceeding good" etc But amongst it all was a Grafito again probably in lating - to the effect "Methinks 'tis a wonder this wall does not fall with the weight of drivel scribbled hereon" |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: topical tom Date: 14 Mar 08 - 10:08 AM Scrawled on the wall above a toilet: If you're feeling flush the toilet's blocked. |
Subject: RE: BS: Graffitti From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 14 Mar 08 - 05:48 PM At a bar, on the men's room wall, were various graffiti, the likes of: "E=MC2" and "Cogito, Ergo Sum!" Below it, in another hand, "I have to say, this place sure has some real high-class clientele!" Dave Oesterreich |