# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/61 "2005-02-03T19:39:23Z")
There’s some great stuff out there! Some of these examples are hilarious. The “It’s the Claw” picture is my favorite so far. Had me in stitches. That’s genius. The “Augly Fish” one gave me a good laugh too. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/62 "2005-02-03T19:40:57Z")
In the ladies room at the Kopper King Tavern here - “Go for broke! Marry a miner!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/63 "2005-02-03T20:40:03Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The somewhat famous one I saw (don’t know if it’s still there) was “Surrender Dorothy” on an overpass on the MD-DC Beltway. Just after the sign the highway turns and you see the Mormon Temple, which happens to look a hell of a lot like the Emerald City. Awesome! When I was a kid, I first saw the temple while driving down the highway with my parents. It was at night, and the temple was all lit up, and to me, it looked exactly like the Emerald City. I was entranced–and so disappointed when I found out it was just some church. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/64 "2005-02-03T20:49:21Z")
I just read a short story by Stephen King that was about a guy who collected these while travelling the country. The Save Soviet Jews" one was in there. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/65 "2005-02-03T21:08:05Z")
> [@Fritz](#): > > Romanes eunt _domum_… Who nitpicks the nitpickers? [shamefaced] It’s actually _Romani_ eunt domum. [/shamefaced] By which I mean, the ‘wrong graffiti’ in the movie, is, not, of course, the actual Latin. The best graffiti I’ve seen lately is ‘Strict adherence to any religious dogma is intellectual suicide’ - yay for Oxford! Cheers, Daphne ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/66 "2005-02-03T22:16:10Z")
Above a urinal: _Look up here!_ pointing higher up the wall to: _Congratulations! You are pissing on your shoes!_ ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/67 "2005-02-03T22:17:55Z")
Above a urinal: _Look up here!_ pointing higher up the wall to: !_Congratulations! You are pissing on your shoes_ ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/68 "2005-02-03T23:16:33Z")
My all-time favorite: On the wall of a public toilet stall: Here I sit in stinkin’ vapor, Some sonofabitch stole the paper. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/69 "2005-02-03T23:40:01Z")
> [@Fritz](#): > > Romanes eunt _domum_… > > Now, write it out a hundred times! If it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off! Romani ite domum. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/70 "2005-02-04T00:19:13Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > Romani ite domum. > > 🙂 Quite right…quite right. [sub]Hail Caesar.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/71 "2005-02-04T01:37:51Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > 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! That is messed up! ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/72 "2005-02-04T02:10:07Z")
> [@Fritz](#): > > [sub]Hail Caesar.[/sub] Hail, Caesar and everything, sir…he’s got a fweind in Wome, you know… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/73 "2005-02-04T02:20:17Z")
> [@pasunejen](#): > > 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!” That reminds me of one-which I’ve said aloud in many an elevator since I first saw it- Maxwell House elevator-Good to the last drop! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/74 "2005-02-04T02:26:16Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > 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”) And then there’s “We aim to keep this place clean. Your aim will help too.” ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/75 "2005-02-04T03:10:42Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > Hail, Caesar and everything, sir…he’s got a fweind in Wome, you know… > > 😃 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/76 "2005-02-04T03:17:11Z")
I once saw scrawled on a hoarding along the GNER route to Petersborough, a thoughtful political sentiment referring to her as Margaret Twatcher. Fair enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/77 "2005-02-04T04:41:32Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > My all-time favorite: > > On the wall of a public toilet stall: > > Here I sit in stinkin’ vapor, > Some sonofabitch stole the paper. The rest of that one is; “It’s time to go, I dare not linger. So look out ass, here comes my finger.” My favorite (above a urinal in my high school), “Any asshole can piss on the floor, Be a real hero and shit on the ceiling.” Most famous (above urinal in a nightclub in Port Nawiliwili, Lanai, Hawaii), Picture of Billy from Family Circus comic with “Aloha!” in word bubble, with what looked exactly like Bil Keane’s signature from the comic strip. Looked like an original to me. Funniest (toilet stall in midships head aboard USS Somers, DDG-34) “This is the tale of screwy Dick, The man who was born with a corkscrew prick. He spent his life in a futile hunt, in search of a girl with a corkscrew cunt. The day he found her was the day he dropped dead. The goddamned bitch was a left-hand thread!” ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/78 "2005-02-04T05:14:43Z")
At a bus stop in West Vancouver… LUKE KIM MEATY MAN BUM!! (I don’t recall if the exclamation points were really there or if my brain just added them. I’ll have to look again tomorrow.) But anyway, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/79 "2005-02-04T10:08:38Z")
Seen in a little bar somewhere in Wisconsin: **"Reality is the shadows in the cave."** It’s not often that I find a reference to Plato on the wall of a bathroom in a tiny bar in Wisconsin. It’s also interesting that either the writer didn’t understand Plato (reality should be outside the cave; the shadows are an illusion), or was deliberately inverting the message of his famous allegory. Most likely the first, but I like to think this bit of scribbling was a sincere philosophic contention that what you see is what you get. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997/80 "2005-02-04T11:18:29Z")
On the footpath outside Auckland University someone had written ‘i can’t sleep’. A few weeks later someone else scrawled underneath it ‘try wanking!’ Right near the entrance to the liabrary someone has written, in big white letters: ‘Smile! Emma exists!’ Puts me in a good mood every time I see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graffiti-youve-seen/287997.md?page=5)