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Good grief that's good graffiti

  
  

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Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:35 / 14.07.02
On a railway bridge over Holloway Road:

WHAT PROPAGANDA?
 
 
grant
13:53 / 26.08.02
latest sighting (which I may well emulate): a stencil, handmade, with an outline of a backhoe alongside the words:

ONE YEAR AGO
20 ACRES
OF TREES


Brilliant.
 
 
William Sack
14:06 / 26.08.02
In a hospital toilet in Hertfordshire. Very simple, and very cruel (though I like to think not motiveless) "[Telephone number] Phone him and slag him off"
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:28 / 26.08.02
Underneath Banksy's "There are no innocent bystanders" in Brick Lane:

Except Xerxes and Sue

Huggles!
 
 
Bill Posters
14:40 / 26.08.02
Well, I for one am missing the classical allusion there, which proves the classics are still necessary for functioning in a modern urban environment.

Iain Sinclair in Lights Out For The Territory has:

We're Behaving Like Insects

- always a fave of mine. I mean, we are aren't we?
 
 
Abigail Blue
14:42 / 26.08.02
At the Lakeview Lunch, in the womens' washroom:

Matt is hot as balls.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
22:17 / 26.08.02
There's a beauty salon at the corner of 68th and Lexington, right by the subway entrance, the kind where all the staff dress only in black and all the walls are sterile white. Someone wrote with window-cutting solution on one of the windows, backwards,

U R UGLY

It was priceless.
 
 
Smoothly
07:58 / 27.08.02
On a lamp post, near the steps to the new Hungerford bridge, London:

I LUV YOUR MUM
 
 
rizla mission
09:24 / 27.08.02
'MADE OF DUST' update: I saw one of those stickers on the cash register in a shitty shop in Camden Market last month.

I feel I might have to resurrect the idea by making some of my own..
 
 
remorse
02:45 / 31.08.02
I like to write this on things in 'permanent' marker:

ERASE

So someone can see what they are doing...while they are doing it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:48 / 31.08.02
I just saw the BEST EVER piece of graffiti- in Dalston.

"DEATH TO THE SUICIDE BOMBERS"

only they stopped halfway through the last "E" as if they'd just had what alcoholics call a moment of clarity...
 
 
Bill Posters
10:59 / 31.08.02
Fuck! That is absolutely the best ever. :-)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:55 / 31.08.02
In the women's bogs at a certain Goth club*: "[Bloke's name] is a WHOLESALE CARPET SALESMAN!!"

Ouch.


*And no, I wasn't there to buy drugs.** I was there to dance like a Thunderbirds puttet on smack and put eyeliner on boys. So Nyahh.

**At least, not principally.
 
 
William Sack
18:53 / 01.09.02
A friend saw scrawled on the 253 bus timetable at a 253 bus-stop in the East End "This bus is my bitch".
 
 
Shortfatdyke
16:21 / 03.09.02
Snappy sloganeering, on a wall near my house:

Youth against racism
Youth against unemployment
Join the Socialist Youth Movement
(6 Catton Gdns, E3)

All in very, very old looking white paint - presumably done in the days before soundbites.
 
 
Margin Walker
04:44 / 01.10.02
"Repent! Grafiti [sic] is a sin"

And while it's not exactly graffiti, I've seen this fine gem in the window of a local liquor store:
"Fuck Margaritaville. Welcome to Gin-ville. Population: You"
 
 
.
11:43 / 01.10.02
There's one simple word painted (with brush rather than spray, in white) on an old brick wall near my office-

Morte

with a crude white cross to either side. Make of that what you will.
 
 
William Sack
12:28 / 01.10.02
Rather enjoyed this one, but hard-pushed to say why. On a wall in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey:
"Tarquin's mum".
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:38 / 29.10.02
Seen in the men's room of a bar last night (italics indicate different handwriting):

Kill Bin Laden! I want his fucking head!
- Canadian soccer rules! Gold medal 2002!

Adjacent, a classic:

Dude, I fucked your mother last night!
- Go home, Dad, you're drunk.
 
 
that
17:42 / 29.10.02
I saw the 'this revolution is for display purposes only' piece the other day...and thought it deserved a second mention. I have photos, when they're developed I may scan them and stick 'em up here. Absolutely fucking fantastic.
 
 
higuita
19:55 / 29.10.02
An odd one that's appeared around my way recently is

'Your mum called... [small picture of a camera] you're welcome.'

Youngsters eh?
 
 
Bill Posters
14:51 / 01.11.02
Hardly anything we'd disagree with but worth a mention:

War is Terrorism With a Bigger Budget
 
 
Bill Posters
10:00 / 16.01.03
And a great sticker I saw on the subway publicising an anarchist group:

Act Your Rage!
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:42 / 16.01.03
Fink ! With a picture of a thought bubble emerging from the head of a gentleman partaking of an absurdly large spliff.
 
 
rizla mission
15:07 / 16.01.03
Dude, I fucked your mother last night!
- Go home, Dad, you're drunk.

Ah, the old ones are the best..
 
 
Loomis
15:16 / 16.01.03
The old and rude ones are the best perhaps -

My unborn son died here after a silent fist fight.

And I saw this in an Austrian hostel -

These toilets are funny because you can see your poo.

If you've ever seen an Austrian toilet you'll know that this is oh so true. And the same toilet had a picture of Ossama with a caption saying "Bin Laden says - enjoy your shite!", which then led into a huge discussion on the pros and cons of American involvement in Afghanistan, which then led around the wall into a discussion on the history of American isolationism. Bloody backpackers!
 
 
Bill Posters
15:34 / 16.01.03
The old and rude ones are the best perhaps

Like (on a condom machine in pub toilets):

Insert Baby For Refund
 
 
Constitution Hill
18:35 / 16.01.03
ELVIS

- on a rock on a road into Aberystwyth. It's been repainted at least a couple of dozen times, and can be found a few miles past the barn roof that proclaims:

Mountain Lambs are Sweeter!
 
 
HCE
15:18 / 17.01.03
On the side of a donut shop in Koreatown, Los Angeles:

Trust no bitch.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
15:54 / 04.03.03
Someone's been going around the bathrooms at my school writing future dates on the toilet paper -- like, May 4, 2006. Get it? Wiping your ass on the future? I assume it's a protest against current US Foreign Policy, and a pretty cute one at that.
 
 
gingerbop
19:44 / 04.03.03
I have a book with collected graffiti.. its brilliant. I liked the FREE NICKY KELLY (with every packet of cornflakes) that sum1 posted.
During the whole Kosovo business, they had painted in huge letters "OTAN GO HOME"... we reakoned they were tryin 2 get NATO to use all their intelligence people to reverse "OTAN", and meanhile they could sneak up behind them and either shoot them, or give they a friendly poke in the sides.
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
21:32 / 07.03.03
I heard about this graffiti on local radio:

Outside Peckham station someone had written: England for the English under which someone else had written Peckham for the peckish
 
 
Bill Posters
15:28 / 09.03.03
In Bloomsbury, central London, I was privilaged to observe this fascinating exchange on a wall. The different styles indicate different handwriting. This is quoted from memory:


Spanking: call Dave on [phone no.]

Actually, I'd far rather you didn't - Dave.

Dave has a nine inch penis and likes young boys.

Actually I have a six inch penis and I must admit I prefer young girls - Dave.


Had me in stitches! I await future installments with interest.

Also, nearby, I saw possibly the best stickering ever. The stickers simply read:

tick tick tick tick tick

Thought provoking and in the present political climate, vaguely threatening...
 
 
Quantum
13:12 / 10.03.03
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead! (Finsbury Park)

in different handwriting each time -
'Only users lose drugs!'
'That's stupid- how could you possibly lose them?'
'Because they fuck up your short term...thingy'
 
 
thedude
15:23 / 10.03.03
Now, the best bit of graffiti I ever noticed was in Glasgow, and it was scrubbed out after a week, so if anyone esle noticed it I would dearly love to hear. This was probably about in 1998, although I've no idea of the time of year. The slogan was painted on the side of the building after you cross all the motorway roads from Woodlands Road and then down onto Sauchiehall Street. Anyway, (and if you're not Scottish this might not make sense - hell, it barely did anyway) written on this wall in massive letters was the immortal phrase "Fuck It Oot!"
Did anyone else see this?
 
  

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