Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Folkiedave Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:17 AM 1968 - PAris Riots Je suis Marxiste, (tendence Groucho). I'll get mi coat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Edmond Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:14 AM Kilroy was here (underneath in a different hand) Lokk at the shit onthe floor. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Dave Hanson Date: 20 Jul 07 - 05:50 AM Life is like a shit sandwich, the less bread ya got, the more shit ya got to eat. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Ed Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:16 PM Bunny, Hillbilly Hare Promenade across the floor. Sasche right on out the door. Out the door and into the glade and everybody pronimade. Step right up you're doing fine. I'll pull your beard you'll pull mine. Yank it again like you did before. Break it up with a tug of war. Now into the brook and fish for the trout. Dive right in and splash about. Trout! Trout! Pretty little trout! One more splash and come right out. Shake like a hound-dog. Shake again. Wallow around in the old pig pen. Wallow some more. Y'all know how. Roll around like an old fat sow. Alamand left with your right hand. Follow through with a great left band. Now lead your partner the dirty old thing. Follow through with an elbow swing. Grab a fence post. Hold it tight. Womp your partner with all your might. Hit him in the shin. Hit him in the head. Hit him again. The critter aint dead. Womp him low and womp him high. Stick your finger in his eye. Pretty little ring. Pretty little sound. Bang your heads against the ground. Promenade all around the room. Promenade like a bride and groom. Open up the door and step right in. Close the door and into a spin. Whirl! Whirl! Twist and twirl! Jump all around like a flying squirrel. Now don't you fuss and don't you swear. Just come right out and form a square. Now right hand over and left hand under. Both join hands and run like thunder. Over the hill and over the dale. Duck your head and lift your tail. Don't you stray and don't you roam. Turn to your partner. Promenade home. Corn in the cornfield. Wheat in the sack. Turn to your partner. Promenade back. And now you're home. Bow to your partner. Bow to the gent across the hall. And that is all! |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Doktor Doktor Date: 19 Jul 07 - 11:11 AM (sic) .. would have been a good joke if both graffitists had been sober .... |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Doktor Doktor Date: 19 Jul 07 - 11:10 AM "Julia *** is built like the Titanic ...... " " WRONG ... only 2000 men went down on the Bismarck " |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Jim Date: 18 Jul 07 - 01:41 PM There's a house on Highway 7 between Peterborough and Lindsay in Southern Ontario with a bright red roof that says, in white letters about two feet tall,"JESUS IS ALIVE". The next house to the West has a brown roof with two foot letters that read,"SO IS ELVIS!" I've often wondered how these neighbours get along. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,BobL Date: 18 Jul 07 - 01:00 PM Life is like a sh!t sandwich - the more bread you got, the better |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 18 Jul 07 - 11:43 AM eric, shared your one about morris dancers at work, ever with a good response. If we're doing t-shirts, I saw one in the 70s, repeat 70s, where Snoopy was saying, "I've made 120 decisions today And they were all wrong." Ideal for all those on the wild goose chase of perfectionism. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,ibo Date: 18 Jul 07 - 09:45 AM on toilet wall in boro,a merry xmas to all our readers |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 17 Jul 07 - 12:00 PM Oh, and a T-shirt worn by a large man with a huge beer-belly: "I got this body by lifting weights!" "(Twelve ounces at a time.)" Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 17 Jul 07 - 11:47 AM Not EXACTLY a graffito, but close enough for the purpose: Sixty years ago, when I was in high school, I saw this. Across the street from the high school was a church, with a huge neon sign, saying, "JESUS SAVES". One morning, on coming to school, we all saw, attached just below that sign, a very large fabric banner, saying, "GOLD BOND STAMPS". I might also tell you that the neon sign was evidently on a timer, and it turned off at 12 p.m. So the saying around our school was, "Jesus Saves till midnight; after that, you're on your own!" Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Jim Date: 17 Jul 07 - 11:12 AM Seen in a Shropshire toilet: Blokes with short horns stand close. The next pisser might have holes in his shoes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Ed Date: 15 Jul 07 - 10:09 PM Under a "Men Working" sign in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The difference between "men working" and "men not working" is hard to see. So signs are thus needed. When women work, it is easily seen. No signs needed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: The Walrus Date: 15 Jul 07 - 08:56 PM Seen in Southall College (early 1980s) I'm into sadism, necrophilia and beastiality - Am I just flogging a dead horse?" underneath had been added (in another hand) "No, Just a very old joke" |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Jul 07 - 03:46 PM Gents in pub in Loughton, Essex, 1980: "Linda Lovelace has the nicest teeth I've come across." Men's bog at Imperial College, London, 1970: "Shit hard - it's a long way to the refectory." Not uncommon, esp. in lavvies used by both ladies and gents: "If you sprinkle When you tinkle Be a sweetie Wipe the seatie." |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 15 Jul 07 - 02:59 PM LOL eric Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Dave Hanson Date: 15 Jul 07 - 09:19 AM Line dancing was invented so that Morris dancers could have someone to take the piss out of. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Jul 07 - 09:07 AM One that still makes me chuckle was this 'Punk rock was invented so's ugly people could have sex' One I saw in a disgusting Portuguese toilet in Lisbon, among all the Filho da puta [son of a bitch] signs on the wall was one in English which read. 'Happiness is when it comes out solid' I think we've all had those problems with strange foreign food. Giok ¦¬] |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: JennyO Date: 15 Jul 07 - 09:01 AM Sandra, I think I've seen that one somewhere. Can't remember where or when tho. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 15 Jul 07 - 08:53 AM dunno whether this is graffiti or a joke/urban legend I like grils final word crossed out by another hand & Girls substituted plaintive comment below What about us grils? |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: The Walrus Date: 15 Jul 07 - 07:52 AM From a University library in Coventry: "There's more pleasure in a good sh*t than in all the World's literature" Seen (in the 60s) on a wall in France (apologies for the poor written French): "Algérie Français (crossed out) "Algérie Algérienne (crossed out) "Algérie Français (crossed out) "Algérie Algérienne." added underneath in English "Make your bloody minds up". On a wall in Mitcham (Surrey) "Elections are rigged - "The Government always gets in" Walrus |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: bassen Date: 15 Jul 07 - 07:07 AM The toilet stalls at the University of Oslo had black doors and walls, possibly to avoid graffiti, but more likely a result of 1960s Scandinavian Design. The result was that the half inch or so of pinewood edging around the doors was crammed with mini-graffiti. One I liked was similar to Gnu's, located way down on one side of the door: "You are now shitting at a forty five degree angle". Another from the same place (Frederikke for those who've been to the UiO) in 3 different handwritings. The first two are well known, but the third one I've only seen that one place: Some come here to sit and think I come here to shit and stink. Others come to scratch their balls And read what's written on the walls. When all those other folks are gone I sit here and whack my dong! Bassen |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 15 Jul 07 - 04:38 AM The one about drinking water and fish originated with W.C.Fields (Shame about the initials.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Dave Hanson Date: 15 Jul 07 - 04:28 AM Mans ambition must be small, To write such crap on a toilet wall. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rog Peek Date: 14 Jul 07 - 04:59 PM Getting away from toilets. "The body is fragile, keep it out of uniform!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: gnu Date: 14 Jul 07 - 03:51 PM At a urinal................. first one at about eye level....... Look up. Look up even further. Look way up. You are pissing on your shoes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Moses Date: 14 Jul 07 - 03:23 PM Can't remember where I saw this -it was a long time ago. 'Never drink water - fishes f**k in it' and, not graffiti - this was on the front of a (rather large) man's T-shirt. 'This is not a beer-belly - it's a fuel tank for a sex machine' |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rog Peek Date: 14 Jul 07 - 03:19 PM This one dates back to the time when in England you had to put a penny in the slot to open the door of the toilet: Here I sit broken hearted Paid me penny and only farted! Vulgar I know, but what can you expect on toilet walls. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Guest; Jem. S Date: 14 Jul 07 - 01:03 PM From a London lav. in the late 60's "what with the wit that is here writ you'd think that Shakespeare had come here to s**t" |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rog Peek Date: 14 Jul 07 - 12:20 PM I've only just popped into this thread, and I'm guessing eric the red ("women's toilet") is a Brit, and Rapaire ("women's restroom") is American. I'm curious, why do you Americans call it a 'Restroom'? Is that why women spend so long in there, because they're taking fourty winks? |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rusty Dobro Date: 14 Jul 07 - 11:12 AM Official notice on a toilet door: 'Wet floor when cleaning!' This brought two replies: 'I always do!', and 'If I didn't wet the floor it wouldn't need cleaning! |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: treewind Date: 14 Jul 07 - 09:51 AM Another memorable two-parter, Cambridge, early 1970's: "is there intelligent life on earth?" "yes but I'm only visiting" |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 13 Jul 07 - 06:02 PM GUEST Jim LOL, especially the different cubicles for different material - wonderful. I also remember (great age, lotsa memory) Don't vote, you'll only encourage them. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: hilda fish Date: 13 Jul 07 - 11:29 AM In Carlton, Victoria, Australia, on a wall at the side of Rathdowne Street, "do you think they'd let us vote if it really worked". I always thought this was the ultimate in cynicism but............ I did wonder. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: GUEST,Jim Date: 13 Jul 07 - 11:22 AM In 1967-68 I worked in the chemical lab at Stelco (The Hamilton Steel Company) in Hamilton, Ontario. The washrooms had the graffiti very well organized. One cubical was for philosophers, one for comedians, one for artists, one for pornographers... One shift we came in to work and discovered that the cubicals had all been cleaned of their graffiti. At the end of the shift, in small, neat block capital letters on the door of one of the cubicals was printed, "F@#& off Cleaning Ladies!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 13 Jul 07 - 11:02 AM One I nearly forgot, on a tee shirt, When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. And a recent ditto on the same lines. Fashion Sucks A young woman was wearing that. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: TheSnail Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:46 AM On a Marlboro Country hoarding showing a picture of Colorado with the advertising tag "Big, isn't it" - "It isn't big and it isn't clever." |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Brakn Date: 11 Jul 07 - 05:28 AM This was on the wall of a toilet in a Swindon factory. Please flush the chain! The *******s in here will eat anything. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Edmond Date: 11 Jul 07 - 04:58 AM In response to eric the red, the corollary of that one is usually 'And if you think that's rather high Just go next door. The fuckers fly !' One from my University days : DO NOT WRITE ON THIS WALL underneath in a different hand : 'You want maybe we should type ?' And in a Gents, somewhere, sign on the wall read 'Please adjust your dress before leaving.' to which some wag had added 'Wrong bog, mate'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Mrrzy Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:16 PM On the bridge over the DC beltway that frames the Mormon Tabernacle if you're driving the outer loop - Surrender Dorothy! |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: katlaughing Date: 10 Jul 07 - 04:03 PM On a van I saw here "Welsh parking only." |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: autolycus Date: 10 Jul 07 - 02:40 PM A friend saw the following at the LSE in the 60s (repeat, 60s ), God is dead - Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead - God My friend said there was a third line, but he never remembered it. And an old one which I think is perfect, written with finger in the dirt on a dusty white van or lorry, Also available in white. Whoever first came up with that should have had a medal. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: ad1943 Date: 10 Jul 07 - 05:16 AM "Picasso was framed " |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Captain Ginger Date: 10 Jul 07 - 03:18 AM I remember the 'Cats like plain crisps' graffiti well. In North London, over the Archway Road, there was for many years the slogan 'Doris Archer is a prude' which always made my father chuckle. And, some years later, there was a rash of graffiti asking 'Who is Christian Goldman?'. I hadn't the foggiest. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: AgingRS Date: 10 Jul 07 - 01:58 AM Written on a condom vending machine 'This is the worst chewing gum i've ever tasted' |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rapparee Date: 09 Jul 07 - 10:32 PM It was all over the latrine walls when I was in the Army: Phi Theta Alpha, in greek letters. My fraternity, and that of a lot of other guys 'n' gals. But you gotta know, ya know? |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Joe_F Date: 09 Jul 07 - 10:07 PM When I was a commune member in the '70s, I did some interior trim, and left a subsequently invisible graffito on each layer: One thing I do whene'er I can Is fuck up sheets of Deciban. But when there's none of that to do, I'll fuck up sheets of wallboard, too. There's lots of that. But when there ain't, I'm always glad to fuck up paint. And now it's ready to move in. My fuckups end, and yours begin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Rowan Date: 09 Jul 07 - 09:07 PM Thanks, JennyO and Sandra, for the background on Mr Eternity. Even though I was a Melbournite (and had seen his handiwork only in 1956) I had been 'aware' of the background and had seen piccies of the Harbour Bridge sign (while recovering from the Nariel version of New Year) but it's good that he's still remembered properly. The equivalent ubiquitous/graffitous sign in Melbourne was much more basic (& banal?); "Whelan the wrecker was here" started as just "Whelan the wrecker" on a site in Melbourne's CBD where a building was being demolished. ABC Radio National did a Hindsight on its history which might still be around as a podcast. Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: BS: Good graffito From: Celtaddict Date: 09 Jul 07 - 08:38 PM On two overpasses near my home, in apparently the same hand: 'Question authority' 'How about some milk and cookies?' |