# Explain this graffiti

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 2, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760 "2012-12-02T15:08:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/1 "2012-12-02T15:08:13Z")

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Last night in the men’s room of a nearby bar I saw and photographed this perplexing blurb:

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> DON’T YOU WAKE THAT SCARECROW TONIGHT

Explanation? 😕

It was printed neatly, all caps.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/2 "2012-12-02T15:12:39Z")

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[It’s a song](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858717427/).

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/3 "2012-12-02T15:20:01Z")

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I took [this picture](http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a562/ChimeraPic/001.jpg) early last summer. That’s St. Anthony falls on the Mississippi and downtown Minneapolis in the background (what you can see of it). No one has removed it in 4-5 months, so it’s still visible on the 3rd Ave Bridge for any other Twin Cities residents to see.

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**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/4 "2012-12-02T15:29:05Z")

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Look, just don’t wake him, okay?

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/5 "2012-12-02T15:31:10Z")

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Cool. Nice to know the meaning (nobody with me knew), also nice to know I’m not the only graffitographer around.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-graffiti/642760/6 "2012-12-02T16:58:09Z")

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This graffito, these graffiti.

Sorry, I just had to do it. 🙂