Folklore: Dirty Graffiti

Subject: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 01:54 PM

I have seen a few graffiti in the dirt on the back of vehicles like

"Also available in white" and "I hate Yorkies" on a truck (UK ad campaign for chocolate aimed at the macho crowd - via truck drivers).

but this week I saw two more

"Swap Vans" and the one we all agree is a beaut "www.dirtyvan.com" to which a colleague added one he saw "I wish my wife was as dirty as this"

OK what has the mudcat seen in the dirt? (bumper stickers are OFF TOPIC )

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:50 PM

Usually either:

"Clean Me!",

or,

"Don't clean me, plant potato's"

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 03:54 PM

They can write in the dust on my cars and furniture all they want, but DO NOT DATE IT!!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:13 PM

Not a bumper sticker, but side of van.. I know it's not strictly on topic but I loved it...

'No cake left in this van overnight'.

There is one chap someowhere in the UK who has made a living making beautiful artworks from the dirty van, by cleaning strategic areas. I passed one on the M11 once, it was incredible!

LTS

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: ClaireBear
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:17 PM

"Dirt Test in Progress -- Do Not Wash!"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:22 PM

LOVE it Claire!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: ClaireBear
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM

This is slightly off-topic, but I just have to tell you why my otherwise beautiful new Mini Cooper is always covered in dirt. See, I live in the countryside in Santa Cruz County, California (where dirty cars are the norm) and commute to the Silicon Valley (where they're most definitely not the done thing).

So when I got my first new car, I kept it beautifully waxed and shiny like a city person -- until one night a few years ago, when I was woken from a deep sleep by a strange and unidentifiable sound. Curious, I looked out the loft window to our front yard far below. Picture this: the full moon was shining gloriously through the redwood trees, and in its light, a 3-point buck who had seen his reflection in the side of my shiny car was systematically ramming it.

Now my car stays unwashed (but unbashed).

Claire

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Bert
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:36 PM

Nice one Claire, I think I'll use that as an excuse for not washing MY car.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM

YES! GOOD ONE! My new car is black...shows everything!!!!!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Aug 06 - 04:48 PM

Not in th edirt but th ebst bit of graffiti I ever saw developed over a few weeks in the toilets of the Duke of York in Eccles. Raggytash may confirm or deny this;-)

Nick shags sheep

OK - I'm Nick and I only shag good looking sheep.

Well, I'm a sheep and I only shag good looking Nicks.

I'm a shepherd. While I have been reading this someone has nicked all my shagging sheep...

:D (tG)

Subject: Clap! Clap! Clap!
From: JesseW
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 04:03 PM

Clap! Clap! Clap! for Dave and ClaireBear! I'm going to use the Dirt Test; that's great.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Ragman
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 05:43 PM

Couldn't resist it, but my two favourite bits of grafitti (not on vehicles, but in the University Union toilets, many many years ago)are:

"Would patrons kindly refrain from using the toilet pans as ash trays. How would you like it if we were to shit in your ashtrays!"

"You know, if these Anarchists decided to get organised, then we might have something to worry about..."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: emjay
Date: 24 Aug 06 - 05:58 PM

Not graffiti either, but in the winter the moose come to lick the salt off our cars -- and they make some interesting patterns on the dirty bumpers.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:43 PM

the Nine O'Clock Moose? No moose is good moose?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 03:30 PM

Do you get any Mormon Mooses up there, in Salt Lick City?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Dirty Graffiti
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:29 AM

I saw a car at Cooper's Lake with Kentucky Plates and a bumper sticker for Red River Gorge. So, I wrote "Hellow Lexington" on the dirt on the back. I went to college there, for 2 years. The present mayor, Terri Isaacs whas editor of the "Rambler" when I was writing for it.

Back when I was a naive young miss at School for Scottish Arts in Banner Elk North Carolina, the two week school used a men's dorm at Lees McCrae College. I read, more than once, a little rhyme on one of the stalls, "This is a teepee of shit and peepee. Not a wigwam to beat your tom tom meat on."
I didn't know what that meant until I was in my 20s. It's just amazing that I remembered it that long.