# Bestest graffiti ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040 "2008-07-02T13:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/41 "2008-07-03T14:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I haven’t seen this one myself, but Pepper Mill has. As you drive around the Washington DC Beltway, you sudenly come upon the Mormon Temple, looming like a fairytale castle in the Maryland countryside. Apparently some Wag wrote on an overpass: **Surrender, Dorothy!** [/QUOTE] Speaking of not seeing things yourself, q.v. post #19. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/42 "2008-07-03T14:40:20Z")
I like the interactive ones. In tiny, tiny print at the bottom of the stall door: “you are now shitting at forty-five degrees.” On left wall of stall: “Want to watch toilet tennis? Look at the other wall.” (repeated on right wall of stall) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/43 "2008-07-03T14:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking of not seeing things yourself, q.v. post #19. Dang! Missed that! ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/44 "2008-07-03T14:47:07Z")
In the 6th form canteen at my old school, there were a couple of memorable sayings on the wall. The first said :I have seen the Great Pretender … but he is not what he seems …Close to that was the deeply philosophical statement (well, for 16-year-olds)Even nostalgia is not what it was. In the men’s room at a pub near my house, I once saw the following missive.Sue, if you ever read this, we’re through… But my all-time favourite, from a collection of same I acquired while at Uni :Abandon Hope. Pandora took the money… ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/45 "2008-07-03T14:49:24Z")
Many years ago - mid 70’s, the fieldhouse at the University of Chicago was essentially nothing more than a big building with some bleachers and a red clay track. They held AAU meets there a lot that my coach would take us to run in. You’d ride home blowing nasty red snot, but I digress… In the downstairs men’s room, I saw this and never forgot it: “Dickie Nixon took his wife to see Deep Throat 5 times before he finally got it down Pat” ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/46 "2008-07-03T14:50:37Z")
In the 80s, somebody had written “LOOK WHAT LABOR (the party in govt at the time) HAS DONE FOR AUSTRALIA!” But they wrote it in a gay precinct, and before very long at all, it had been changed to: “LOOK WHAT **G** ABOR HAS DONE FOR AUSTRALIA!” ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/47 "2008-07-03T15:11:36Z")
[QUOTE=Half Man Half Wit] That’s just brilliant! I was always fond of that old bathroom stall rhyme: _Here I sit half broken-hearted came to shit but only farted_ [/QUOTE] Ah, but there’s verse 2: _Yet far better this than to take a chance Try to fart and shit my pants_ ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/48 "2008-07-03T15:12:24Z")
I don’t remember whether I saw this on a bathroom wall or _Mad Magazine_ but here goes: _Those who write on bathroom walls Make their sh_t in little balls Those who read these lines of wit Eat the little balls of sh_t._ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/49 "2008-07-03T15:21:13Z")
Written over the urinal: **Stand closer - quit bragging** Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/50 "2008-07-03T15:22:44Z")
One of the most famous pieces of UK graffiti was [this one](http://www.ruthpadel.com/images/stripe.jpg). And I remember seeing a load of original Banksy pieces as a student in Bristol back in the late nineties… [this](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44191000/jpg/_44191040_lot_369.jpg) was one of my faves. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/51 "2008-07-03T15:26:26Z")
On the fourth floor of the journalism building at UGA, second stall from the south door, there is a theological argument that takes up almost the entire left wall of the stall. Some of it is very well written, some of it is just name-calling, but it’s amazing that the whole damn wall is filled with people arguing over the nature of god. At the very bottom, slashed in all capital letters with a furious sharpie is the sentence “CAN’T YOU PEOPLE JUST TAKE A SHIT AND BE DONE WITH IT?” I cracked up the first time I saw that, and I sure hope it’s still there. Then there’s a nonsensical one over the urinal at a restaurant in Athens that I love that says “Matt is a gay mathematician.” Makes me chuckle every time. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/52 "2008-07-03T15:32:13Z")
I should also mention (okay,maybe I shouldn’t, but I will) the four toilet stalls in one of the dorms where I lived at Oklahoma Baptist University. They were labeled 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation. Don’t know what happened to Jude. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/53 "2008-07-03T15:45:03Z")
Hand dryer graffiti: [Press Button. Receive Bacon.](http://daverohrer.com/receive-the-bacon/) ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/54 "2008-07-03T18:18:21Z")
‘I may not go down in history, but I went down on your sister’ T-Stand, eastside ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/55 "2008-07-03T19:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] …the four toilet stalls in one of the dorms where I lived at Oklahoma Baptist University … were labeled 1 John, 2 John, 3 John and Revelation. [/QUOTE] Could have been worse. I’d hate to use a stall labeled “Acts”. Or worse, “Lamentations”. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/56 "2008-07-03T19:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Could have been worse. I’d hate to use a stall labeled “Acts”. Or worse, “Lamentations”. [/QUOTE] Genesis and Exodus would be cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/57 "2008-07-03T20:12:05Z")
Near the University of Arizona in Tucson there is a building that has “HAPPINESS IS SUBMISSION TO GOD” printed on the side in huge letters. Directly following the word “GOD” is a patch of discolored paint, from all of the times they had to paint over people putting “ZILLA” after it. It’s an ongoing battle. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/58 "2008-07-03T20:38:23Z")
I’m rather fond of [this one](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/483711989_bc0dcf1838.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/59 "2008-07-03T20:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Near the University of Arizona in Tucson there is a building that has “HAPPINESS IS SUBMISSION TO GOD” printed on the side in huge letters. Directly following the word “GOD” is a patch of discolored paint, from all of the times they had to paint over people putting “ZILLA” after it. It’s an ongoing battle. [/QUOTE] That reminds me of my friends who are making a model train station for the Spinespur miniature game. For that particular game they need a postapocalyptic look. Well, it’s going along pretty well except that there isn’t any graffiti yet on the stations name: “CANAL STREET.” Not that it would be _funny_ per se to have the “C” crossed out in their miniature train station, but it would break the _verisimilitude_ to think that no one had done so yet. Since this might be displayed in a public place, I’m going to suggest that they make a metal “C” to bolt **over** the existing “C”, to imply that they have to replace it a lot like in your example. Oh, and for awhile, I think Pennsylvania had a supply of metal "N"s to place over signs for the “DEVON” exit when people kept spraypainting over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/60 "2008-07-03T21:03:59Z")
In the town where I went to high school, there was a college that, quite idiotically, named a men’s dorm after an old alum. It thus became Shorney Hall. You can imagine how quickly and how often the S was painted over, taken down, taped over, etc. I think they kept replacing it for a few months, then decided to hell with it and it went back to being North Men’s or some such. What the heck, the old alum was doddering; he’d probably never be back to see what happened to his namesake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040.md?page=4)