# Weirdest/Funniest Graffiti you've come across **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924 "2007-08-17T12:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cooky173](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@cooky173](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cooky173)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/41 "2007-08-18T00:41:31Z")
On a poster asking, ‘Who runs the world anyway?’ I felt it necessary to answer ‘The Mice’ ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/42 "2007-08-18T00:52:11Z")
My favourite was in spanish, next to our home: “Cada vez que pienso, me caen a coñazos”. _Every time I think, they beat the shit out of me_. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/43 "2007-08-18T01:32:41Z")
On a wall beside a building site: The wall itself was covered in black polythene to protect the exposed wall of the building next door. - The polythene was held in place with many short sticks nailed somewhat randomly over its surface. In white letters, BUT IS IT _ART?_ Stayed there for years until the building was completed. ---
**Author:** ![PorcelainBarbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@PorcelainBarbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PorcelainBarbie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/44 "2007-08-18T07:24:49Z")
I was driving to my college one morning and on a bridge it said… “Smile, because you’re going to die!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/45 "2007-08-18T07:44:43Z")
Womens bathroom, IT Dept., U of MN “Call Kevin, 555-1212, he’s safe, handsome, and clean” “But can he type?” “Honey, I don’t care if he can read.” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/46 "2007-08-18T08:40:57Z")
Since Hollywood celebs have started buying up his stuff, I’m guessing some of you have heard of British graffiti artist Banksy. He takes graffiti to a whole new level of wit and quality, such as placing [fake exhibits](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4563751.stm) in [London museums](http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/banksys-banksus-militus-ratus/). His graffitos are now so valuable that even the illegal originals have started to be preserved by local authorities. Here are a few classics.[ul][li][A tunnelling rat has emerged in the wrong place](http://www.woostercollective.com/images/2006/02/2006_1_banksy3.jpg)[/li][li][A chimp admonishes the human race](http://snafu.priv.at/pics/other/367banksy.jpg)[/li][li][A Queen’s guardsman relieves himself](http://rapnews.co.uk/images/graff/banksy.jpg)[/li][li][A lover has a lucky escape](http://houston.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/06/bristol_banksy.jpg)[/li][\*][Gay policemen](http://www.thismoment.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/blog/banksy.jpg) (in Brighton, the gay capital of the UK. Some homophobe - or policeman - keeps throwing paint at it, so the local council have covered it in perspex.)[/ul]Sadly, [not everyone recognises his work](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6575345.stm). ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/47 "2007-08-18T09:48:56Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’ve also seen examples of [Push button, Receive Bacon](http://www.baconbytes.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/screencap-131.png) in the wild, but of course not the original one. [/QUOTE] [Thanks to\*\* Rysto \*\* for this.](http://www.historyofthebutton.com/2007/07/23/press-button-receive-bacon/) Some of you may enjoy my recent [bathroom graffiti thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432282) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/48 "2007-08-18T14:03:22Z")
On an Ontario highway, outside Windsor, there a sign announcing an upcoming side street: “Sexton Side Avenue.” Someone had blotted out the “t”. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/49 "2007-08-18T14:19:51Z")
My favorite was on a deer crossing sign on a rural California highway. Someone had carefully painted wings on the deer, so it became a Pegasus crossing. Apparently the highway department appreciated the artwork because I passed it numerous times during the five years I lived in California and it was always there. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/50 "2007-08-18T15:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=phouka] And, in the music building on University of Texas’ Austin campus, there is a staircase that goes down half a level from the first floor and ends in a blank, brick wall. There, in the grout between the brick, someone had penciled, “For the love of God, Montressor!” [/QUOTE] This is the best one so far. LMAO! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/51 "2007-08-18T15:40:21Z")
On a bus shelter in San Francisco there is a poster advertising an optometrist. The tag line is, “Sqinting isn’t Sexy!” Underneath, someone had inked, “But it works for Clint Eastwood!” ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/52 "2007-08-18T18:19:46Z")
My favorite that I have seen since moving to NYC is “PLO out of Ireland!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/53 "2007-08-18T19:03:37Z")
I don’t remember the names or the exact wording, but there was grafitti on an underpass in a city where I lived in Georgia that read something to the effect of **Julian Suk’s little boy’s [del]kocks[/del] _cocks_!** where somebody (Julian?) had made the corrections and written “But at least he can fucking spell and punctuate correctly” in what was probably the longest sentence I’ve ever seen painted on a public work. My favorite graffiti related _story_: A friend of mine is a psychologist specializing in geriatric dementia. The reason I was with her was because the old lady had specifically asked her to “bring a young man with ya, I never get to see young men” (I was younger then, obviously). I was with her when she interviewed a very sweet but slightly daffy old lady at a nursing home who was discussing why she was in the home [it had nothing to do, she swore, with her mental and physical infirmities]). _italics_ = things loudly whispered as if in strictest confidence and to keep from the earshot of children (none of whom are present). “When me and my husband moved into that neighborhood all those many years ago it was the nicest sweetest little place on earth. But you wouldn’t believe what all those kids and their gangs have done to it. They spray things on the buildings and the bridges and I mean nasty things, like \* ess aitch I tee\* and _g- oh- dee- dee- ay- em- inn_ and _inn- I- jee- jee ee are_ and Motherfucker!” I didn’t want to and wish I hadn’t, but I sprayed Coke. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/54 "2007-08-18T19:10:31Z")
On the door of the stall I always use at the bar that I frequently play pool at, there is an advertisement for a brand of tampons. It’s not very grammatically correct. Some woman broke down the sentences and added corrections. Then another woman came along and lined that out and wrote “Get a life!” It’s funnier when you’ve had a beer or three. ---
**Author:** ![Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Secret\_Volcano\_Lair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Secret_Volcano_Lair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/55 "2007-08-18T22:45:40Z")
On the side of a boxcar: “jail sucks” perhaps they were about to get caught. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/56 "2007-08-20T22:13:32Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] Driving on the Capital Beltway you can see the Mormon Tabernacle in the distance. It looks surprisingly like the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz. As you approach an overpass you have the Tabernacle in your line of site and someone wrote “Surrender Dorothy” on the overpass. Pure genius. [/QUOTE] You mean [the Washington, DC Temple](http://www.lds.org/temples/main/0,11204,1912-1-52-2,00.html). The Mormon Tabernacle is in Salt Lake City, Utah. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/57 "2007-08-21T00:07:36Z")
One new years morning, about 15 years ago, as I wandered, hung over, by the construction walls then around the Boston Public Library: JESUS SAVES He has the ball, He shoots, he scores! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924/58 "2007-08-21T00:31:41Z")
Seen on construction barriers in the student union at Florida State circa 2003: “I dream of European lovers I haven’t met.” 😉 It was later changed to “I dream of European lovers I haven’t smelled.” 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-funniest-graffiti-youve-come-across/415924.md?page=2)