# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/81 "2008-07-05T21:43:08Z")
My son does stencil art. My favorite is of a small flower growing in a big pot. Next to the pot, it reads, “It will all be all right.” Underneath, “I promise.” I don’t know why I found it so sweet, but I had him tag the back of my car with it. I’m always surprised at how many people (motherly types like myself, mostly) stop in parking lots to tell me how much they like it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/82 "2008-07-05T21:56:07Z")
Sequential graffiti, women’s bathroom, U of MN IT dept… Call Jim at 612-555-1717. He’s clean, straight, and handsome. But can he type? Honey, I don’t care if he can read! ---
**Author:** ![paffinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@paffinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paffinity)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/83 "2008-07-06T00:11:21Z")
While I didn’t take this picture, the graffiti I saw at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens last week is in a busy enough place that I found a shot online: [If God has a sense of humor…](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2590756418_9eb08fb2af.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/84 "2008-07-06T01:38:12Z")
At the University of Texas’s architecture library building, in the basement, there is a set of stairs that goes down a few steps directly into a blank wall. A blank wall with a door frame around it. Naturally, someone has written there, in tiny letters: For the love of God, Montresor. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/85 "2008-07-06T02:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] At the University of Texas’s architecture library building, in the basement, there is a set of stairs that goes down a few steps directly into a blank wall. A blank wall with a door frame around it. Naturally, someone has written there, in tiny letters: For the love of God, Montresor. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of some grafitti I saw over the entrance of a sub-sub-sub basement of Perkins Library at Duke University. You had to wind your way down through various passages and corridors to get to the door leading down to the lowest level. Over that (appropriately gothic) doorway someone had scrawled: All hope abandon, ye who enter here. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/86 "2008-07-06T03:14:05Z")
I’m greatly pleased with the opening of the nearby skating park - particularly since one of my buddies got licensed to make this tag as decoration. [http://www.justme.ws/pics/groups/22460\_210608\_03.jpg](http://www.justme.ws/pics/groups/22460_210608_03.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![HeadNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@HeadNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadNinja)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/87 "2008-07-06T17:59:03Z")
Northbound on 71, just outside of Cincinnati, you used to be treated to: “Yes Amy, I am crazy” I always loved this. Is he actually insane? Spray painting an overpass at 3am would suggest yes. Is it some sort of convoluted proposal? Is it a post modern dry wit thing, laden with sarcasm? Heck, is it an incredibly grotesque suicide note? The painted over the bridge a few years ago. I wonder if Amy still thinks of him. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/88 "2008-07-06T20:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] What’s the most _famous_ graffiti? I mean, there was that graffiti scrawled on the wall next to one of the Ripper killings in Whitechapel, but I’ll bet hardly anybody knows what it was. [/QUOTE] The only graffiti rather “next” to one of the Ripper killings is a very well documented line of words: _the juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing_. It was wiped out within hours of its discovery by the police, because of the fear of anti jewish riots in Whitechapel. (Begg 2004, Sugden 1994, et al.) For more information on the Whitechapel murders including this graffiti check out the great site [Casebook: Jack the Ripper](http://www.casebook.org/). ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/89 "2008-07-06T21:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] If you give a man a fish, he’ll want a bicycle. [/QUOTE] I think I know [who’s responsible](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) for that one. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/90 "2008-07-07T00:23:50Z")
[QUOTE=GameHat] I’m surprised that nobody’s mentioned [Banksy](http://www.banksy.co.uk/) [/QUOTE] See post #50. ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/91 "2008-07-07T00:42:59Z")
In very nasty restroom of a rundown gas station I once saw: “For a good time e-mail” followed by an e-mail address. I was impressed with how modern things had gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040/92 "2008-07-07T00:48:00Z")
In a bathroom stall, right around all the "I love Johnny"s and “Jenny+Bob=TLFA”, in large, black sharpie: **Give your guy a little class Don’t write his name where you wipe your ass** (Even now, any time I see those little love notes, I’m so tempted to add this piece of wisdom) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bestest-graffiti-ever/455040.md?page=4)