# Graffiti you've seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997 "2005-02-02T16:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/41 "2005-02-02T22:43:46Z")
Damn, didn’t mean to submit just yet… In the Green Mill, Chicago, Illinois. "We need to get over this, and by “we”, I mean “you” " “I wish I could remember all the sweet shit I said to you last night” “Nothing never happens” ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/42 "2005-02-02T23:16:11Z")
In Milwaukee’s east side there was a big billboard featuring Joe Camel shooting pool. Someone turned the cue ball into a skull, and wrote next to it “You’re playing with death!” But the best graffiti I’ve seen was by someone who had obviously gotten ahold of one of the machines they use to paint road markings. We were walking down a street, and the first set of crosswalks arced partially into the intersection. The next set were wavy lines. The next one started out toward the middle of the intersection, paused (big globs of paint), turned back to where they should be going, then got really narrow and thin (like they were hurrying with the painter) and went for the curb. The next one was a big spiral that went around the whole intersection and ended at a manhole cover. If we’d been walking the other direction it would’ve been kind of a letdown, but as it was we were running to see what the next one would be. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/43 "2005-02-02T23:55:23Z")
Somebody had written “Look what Labor has done for Australia” on a wall in a gay precinct of Sydney - it didn’t last long before somebody altered the L in “Labor” to a G. My favourite though, is the unintentionally funny one some green activist did on a Sydney railway cutting wall: _RIDE MORE BICYCLES_. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/44 "2005-02-03T00:12:34Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > Here in Gainesville, there’s a wall on one of the major streets that’s legal to graffiti on. It was only recently that it became official, but for many years before that the police would look the other way. It seems to work, because there’s very little graffiti in other parts of the city. > > Anyway, on this wall is a memorial to the students killed in the Gainesville Murders back in 1990. It’s just a black square with the names and a wreath. It’s mostly left alone, and when it is painted over, someone always freshens it up within a day or two. Very nice sentiment. The wall itself is also a great idea that I think other places should emulate. I lived across the street from the 34th Street Wall for the three years I was in law school. I used to love reading the new graffiti. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/45 "2005-02-03T00:33:37Z")
On the Frankford “El” in Philly there is an intriguing graffitto sprayed on a natural gas tank leading up to one of the stations: ROSSI YOUR DAD IS ALIVE! ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/46 "2005-02-03T00:59:57Z")
In the little angels’ room at Mamma Zu’: “Legalize Vandalism!!!” Written below it, in a different hand and ink: “Vandalize Legalism” ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/47 "2005-02-03T01:06:59Z")
In a men’s room stall at Motheaten U, Boston, MA, (1958) “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz-Oh what a relief it is.” On a wall poster on Comm. Ave., Boston (c. 1970)- “Climax is coming.” (when there was a band with that name). On a Jersey barrier on Storrow Drive, Boston, (1960’s) “_Vas deferens_” (a band name). Over a men’s room commode in Raleigh, NC.(c. 1995) “If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and lift the seat.” On an alley wall in Marseille, France, (anytime) “_Defense de pisser ici, s.v.p_.” (No pissing here, if you please). & “_Defense de déposer des ordures_” (such alliterates, those French) (No Dumping). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/48 "2005-02-03T01:15:32Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > One Fish > Two Fish > Red Fish > Blue Fish > Buttcheese. > \*\* -Uptown Bar. Minneapolis.\*\* > > Stillwater Cub Produce Department Rules! > \*\* -University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul.\*\* > > God saves. > _But Gretzky scores on the rebound!_ > \*\* -Sweeney’s, Saint Paul.\*\* > > Satin Lives! > \*\* -Underpass, Saint Paul’s East Side.\*\* > > Free Mumia! > Limit. One per customer. All of these local references and you left out the (in)famous one. On the corner of Franklin and Hennepin Ave is a realtor’s billboard. His name is as twee as you can ever get, Cotty Lowry. He has the face of a rabbit and his ad is constantly tagged, graffitied, or marred. Click on his website, [Cotty.com](http://cotty.com), go to “enter site” and at the bottom click “billboard”. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/49 "2005-02-03T01:29:07Z")
My personal favorite, in a dorm at choir camp with very _very_ thin walls: _Once I slept here soft and sound, but now my head is spinning 'round. Now I sit ears in a cup–the people upstairs won’t shut up!_ Others at the same camp: Q: If it takes half a chicken half a day to lay half an egg, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a watermelon? A: Half an hour, because ice cream floats in root beer. I once was here but now I’m gone. I left my name and spelled it wrong. Those who know me know me well, and those who don’t know how to spell. [strikeout]Erika[/strikeout] Erica\* It was midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was in sight. The sun was shining brightly for it had rained all day that night. It was a summer’s day in winter, and snow was raining fast, as a barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass. \*Bleh, that tag would have to not be in here. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/50 "2005-02-03T01:37:43Z")
I read this one in Totally Tasteless Jokes: On a sign that read: _Save Soviet Jews_ Someone had added: _Win Valuable Prizes_ ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/51 "2005-02-03T01:46:53Z")
Above a urinal… _Don’t look up here. The joke’s in your hand._ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/52 "2005-02-03T02:45:13Z")
Many years ago, while still living in Dallas, I used to see “Frodo Lives” from time to time. I couldn’t figure out the meaning… I finally got it after I read LOTR. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/53 "2005-02-03T02:47:52Z")
Around the inner city of Sydney: Someone had written **God hates homos** , underneath someone else had written **Yeah, but he loves tabouleh**. Near an feminist bookshop on a large black wall, which happened to be opposite a Catholic church, someone had written **The sisterhood is here**. Someone else wrote underneath **Not here, across the road** **Now 100% aardvarks** **Save the wallet** ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/54 "2005-02-03T02:59:55Z")
> [@Little Wing](#): > > Many years ago, while still living in Dallas, I used to see “Frodo Lives” from time to time. I couldn’t figure out the meaning… > > I finally got it after I read LOTR. :smack: I used to see that in a few of the stairwells at Boston University. Which also reminds me of something that made elevator rides at the end of the main class building fun: It was an Otis elevator, clearly labeled as such at the top of the button panel thing. Somebody altered the panel with a Sharpie so that it read “Otis, my man!” ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/55 "2005-02-03T05:04:07Z")
I can’t believe I forgot my favorite one! Written on the wall of a public building here in Memphis: \*\*Hey boy– Marie from Memphis called. - Your uncle\*\* For those who don’t get it:[spoiler]It’s a reference to the Johnny Rivers song “Memphis, Tennessee,” in which the speaker is talking to the operator, trying to get the number of this person who called; we later find out she’s his long-lost daughter: _Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee Trying to find a party trying to get in touch with me She would not leave a number, but I know who made the call 'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall._[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/56 "2005-02-03T05:32:19Z")
In a stall in Yosemite: Support Your Right to Arm Bears In a restroom at UC Berkeley, early 70s : Piss on American Standard (look down, note that brand name on urinal is “American Standard”) ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/57 "2005-02-03T15:01:31Z")
Back in 1998 I was in New York, and I saw many of [these,](http://www.toynbee.net/) and was fascinated. I mean, it’s just so surreal! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/58 "2005-02-03T18:28:43Z")
Excerpt from an article today in the Toronto Star: > [@](#): > > On Tuesday night, an 18-year-old teen was struck and killed by an oncoming train here as he used spray paint to “tag” boxcars that were sitting on an idle track with graffiti symbols. At about 10 p.m., he was hit by a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train that was heading east at about 40 kilometres an hour along the tracks next to the idle boxcars, police said. > > He suffered severe head injuries and died as he was being rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital. > > Two others were with the teen at the time, police said, but they will not be charged. The teen’s identity is being withheld at the request of his family. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/59 "2005-02-03T18:51:50Z")
**VAL KILMER** ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/60 "2005-02-03T18:57:40Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Romanes eunt domus! Romanes eunt _domum_… Now, write it out a hundred times! If it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997.md?page=4)