# misspelled graffiti **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325 "2003-05-15T01:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/21 "2003-05-15T17:58:24Z")
In large block letters: \*\*ATTENTENT’N!! FLIMING IN PROGRESS DO NOT ENTER\*\* (students taping performances, in case you’re wondering) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/22 "2003-05-15T18:13:39Z")
Not misspelled, but . . . in a tiny hardly-even-a-burg on one of our frequent routes home from the Big City, someone once spray-painted in huge black letters on a white garage door “FUCK YOU TOM.” It’s been painted over for quite a while, but I still think “FUCK YOU TOM” every time we go past that garage. Wonder what Tom did to piss someone off that bad? * * * I didn’t see this one, but I still like it: (Over a public toilet) Please wiggel Handel. (Below, in a differnt hand) If I do, will he wiggel Bach? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/23 "2003-05-15T18:30:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I LUV U SWEATHEART > > -highway overpass north of Boston I’ve seen this, but I can’t remember where exactly. My favorite: **Pepper Mill** says she saw this outside DC once. As you go around the Beltway, coming over a rise, you suddenly see the Mormon Temple. Someone had spray painted on a bridge just before or after you see it: **Surrender Dorothy**. Nitpick: Isn’t is **grafitti** , not “graffiti”? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/24 "2003-05-15T18:38:30Z")
There was a group of ne’er-do-well kids hanging out in the woods—in Long Island, I think—who left scrawled on various rocks, “PRAISE SATIN!” I’m more into chiffon, myself. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/25 "2003-05-15T18:42:57Z")
When I was in college, someone was apparently trying to work out a calculus problem on the wall while sitting on the can. Someone else corrected his work. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/26 "2003-05-15T19:07:26Z")
Is the “Sweathart” on Rt. 114 in Peabody? It’s driving me nuts. I know I’ve seen it, and not in National Lampoon. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/27 "2003-05-15T19:13:03Z")
Next to one of the dryers in my building, the maintenance guy (I assume) wrote: “Do Not Unplug” Under it someone wrote: Why is this in quotes? Did someone famous say this? ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/28 "2003-05-15T19:14:22Z")
Oooh, bomb-o. It doesn’t seem quite as funny here as it does early Sunday mornings waiting for the dryer to finish. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/29 "2003-05-15T19:15:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Another High School (Baldwin SHS), Mid 80’s, on the 2 story high wall on the old Woolworth’s building adjacent to the school, in 5’ High Red Spraypainted letters…TEENAGE WAISTLAND That’'s funny. Somebody spray painted that on my highschool wall in 1980. They spelled that right, but on another wall, they painted “ROK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL”. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/30 "2003-05-15T19:25:23Z")
Sorry to broaden the scope of this but… I’ve seen a couple of homemade signs in the past week that gave me a chuckle. One was several signs around a beat-up old van selling flowers for Mother’s Day. Every one of them advertised “Bokays.” The other was a Yard Sale sign that advertised “Mani items new.” If you don’t know how to spell bouquet, wouldn’t you look it up. They couldn’t possibly have written out bokay and thought, “Yep that looks 'bout right.” ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/31 "2003-05-15T19:54:04Z")
**Cal** , that’s constantly being painted over by the authorities and then re-spray painted. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/32 "2003-05-15T19:58:31Z")
Allow me to be the first to make the gratuitous yet inevitable _Life of Brian_ reference: > [@](#): > > CENTURION: > What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’? > BRIAN: > It-- it says, ‘Romans, go home’. > CENTURION: > No, it doesn’t. What’s Latin for ‘Roman’? Come on! > BRIAN: > Aah! > CENTURION: > Come on! > BRIAN: > ‘R-- Romanus’? > CENTURION: > Goes like…? > BRIAN: > ‘Annus’? > CENTURION: > Vocative plural of ‘annus’ is…? > BRIAN: > Eh. ‘Anni’? > CENTURION: > ‘Romani’. . . . and so on. Great scene. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/33 "2003-05-15T20:07:56Z")
**Cal** - It actually is “graffiti,” and as an otherwise excellent speller, I can never remember if it’s two f’s and one t or two t’s and one f or two f’s and two t’s. Yet again I remind myself, and yet again I will awaken tomorrow completely forgetting. While we’re on nitpicking, the etymologically correct singular form of this word is “graffito.” Not that I endorse its usage; I’m just throwing it out for your edification. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/34 "2003-05-15T23:30:30Z")
Not mispelled, but one of my favorites. On a railroad overpass: “Bernard Herman Lives” ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/35 "2003-05-16T00:56:04Z")
Everything in Israel is misspelled in English. The problem is, they try to spell things the way they would sound when spoken with a thick Israeli accent. My personal favorite was seeing this Israeli graffiti: “Fack The System!” ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/36 "2003-05-16T01:05:11Z")
My favorite ever was from an alley in downtown Edmonton: **IGNERENCE IS BLISS!** I still haven’t decided if it’s extremely clever, or extremely stupid… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/37 "2003-05-16T05:02:14Z")
I don’t remember where I saw the ‘Sweatheart’ tag, but it’s been about eight years since I’ve driven in Boston, so the one I saw is probably gone by now. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/38 "2003-05-18T13:29:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \* > \*\*Not misspelled, but . . . in a tiny hardly-even-a-burg on one of our frequent routes home from the Big City, someone once spray-painted in huge black letters on a white garage door “FUCK YOU TOM.” It’s been painted over for quite a while, but I still think “FUCK YOU TOM” every time we go past that garage. Wonder what Tom did to piss someone off that bad? > > * * * > > I didn’t see this one, but I still like it: > > (Over a public toilet) Please wiggel Handel. > (Below, in a differnt hand) If I do, will he wiggel Bach? \*\* I can’t remember the last time I LOLed with such force that I almost peed my pants. * * * Scratched into a radiator at my high school: HEAVY METEL RULES Painted, with spilled roofing tar, on a window at my elementary school: FUCK YOU SCHOOL Spray-painted on the side of a truck on the loading dock behind a shopping center: JOIN A CONVENT I used to walk past that loading dock frequently on my way into the shopping center. I wondered more than once if that message was aimed directly at me; it wasn’t there when I started taking that route. ☹ BTW: **jackelope** , I hate to correct _you_, but that’s not how the **Barcelona** scene went. The graffiti read “Cerdos Yanquis Go Hoem!” (Yankee pigs go home!) and Christopher Eigeman’s character took it upon himself to change “cerdos” into “cierbos” (deers). With a ballpoint pen on a stone wall, I might add. (No mention of the misspelling of “home”.) ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/39 "2003-05-18T14:29:42Z")
{scene: Some non descript men’s room} I get finished washing my hands, turn to the hot air dryer and press the button. Notice the instructions: 1. Press button 2. Rub hands vigorously 3. Dryer will stop automatically And scratched underneath: 4. Wipe hands on pants Okay, so it wasn’t misspelled, but it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325/40 "2003-05-18T14:40:16Z")
“Mick is a fagot” underneath it: “I may be gay but at least i can spell faggot” on a toilet roll dispenser: “warning: selfdestructs after third rotation” and the best on the toilet water tank: “think” and underneath it: “or thwim” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misspelled-graffiti/175325.md?page=3)