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enlightenment through commodal wisdom

rottytooth — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:03:09 -0800

If these walls could speak

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:48:03 -0800

Push bar Great idea.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:04:03 -0800

"It Sucks Having A Soul" written on the walls at the Record Swap in Champaign IL.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:13:44 -0800

For a good time call 1 (503) 487-0014

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:08:49 -0800

"There is no existence, only Vishnu telling himself a joke" - from one of the Brown University buildings' bathroom stalls. "Fuck you," was the only response.

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:13:19 -0800

There was a HOLE here. It's gone now.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:25:18 -0800

No "All Hail The Crimson King"?

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:43:45 -0800

Once at the local coffee shop, when someone wrote on the blackboard "Have you found Jesus yet?", I had to respond "Hey, you go Yahweh, I'll go mine..."

By: exogenous

exogenous — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:06:40 -0800

MeFi style

By: Falconetti

Falconetti — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:24:13 -0800

The best bar bathroom graffiti is when people respond derisively to other scrawls or an insulting "conversation" goes back and forth.

By: Soup

Soup — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:23:23 -0800

they would say "that tickles."

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:31:55 -0800

It's 1999-ish and I'm at Goldsmith's University's Student Union Bar in New Cross at some kind of event to promote Orange mobile phones. (They were giving away, for some reason, spacehoppers to all the students. My flatmate at the time was their marketing manager. Even he doesn't remember why spacehoppers.) Anyway, anyone who's ever been around students and student's unions in the UK will tell you what the graffiti can be like in these places. It tends towards the inspirational. Pretentious - that would be a better word. The kind of thing that the author thinks back to in future life and genuinely shudders, "Ugh! Could I really have been that trite?". So I'm taking a piss, and written neatly on the wall is "Go out and do something with your life. All it takes is one person to make a difference. Embrace life and PARTICIPATE!" (I'm paraphrasing, but you take my point.) Just below this, scratched a centimetre deep into the plasterboard was the following outburst of sincere malice: "Yer all cunts, and when I find you I'm going to cut you up."

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:48:29 -0800

Great idea. I wish I had a photo of the wall in the laundry room of the Hall of Graduate Studies thirty-odd years ago—there were some great graffiti. And I remember a mock-argument between people pretending to be Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and so on, with "revisionist" and "running dog" thrown around with abandon. Pretentious, sure, but loads of fun. The "Yer all cunts" one is genius.

By: The Ultimate Olympian

The Ultimate Olympian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:17:10 -0800

The best bar bathroom graffiti is when people respond derisively to other scrawls or an insulting "conversation" goes back and forth. Internet = Bathroom Wall 2.0?

By: notsnot

notsnot — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:33:49 -0800

The old Talayna's pizza den on Skinker near Wash U. Toilet stall. Written at the bottom of the partition, sideways, near the door, so you had to sit forward almost off the seat, to read it: "You are now shitting at a 45 degree angle."

By: Peecabu

Peecabu — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:37:20 -0800

At various conventions where artists and writers congregate, we used to paper walls with butcher paper in the rooms where they tended to congregate. We'd leave out dishes of writing implements; pens, pencils, crayons, markers, water colors, etc. We'd get the pros drunk and fed, and over the course of a weekend we would have some of the most amazing stuff on the walls. The vast majority was auctioned off for related charities, so that was pretty cool.

By: dammitjim

dammitjim — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:36:06 -0800

One I remember from the early 80's in a stall at the Art Annex Building at then-SMSU (now MSU): "If you voted for Reagan, you can't shit here. Your asshole's in Washington"