"fools' names, like fools' faces, are often seen in public places"

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what in the world can this phrase mean? apparently it was a fave of my grandmother's to say upon encountering some stray graffitto

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(possible clue: she is a lifelong teetotalling methodist from texas)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

is yer grandma Paul Simon?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 30 December 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

not to my knowledge

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 December 2002 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

means stay away from celebrity hobbit fuckers

― Queen G (Queeng), Monday, 30 December 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe she meant that stupid people end up having roads/conference centres/apartment blocks named after them.

I often wonder who Jasmine Allen is (from "The Jasmine Allen Estate" on TV's The Bill). I worry that I ought to know who this person is/was, even though it is only TV fiction.

― C J (C J), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

It means you should only be in the papers three times in your life, you rodeo goon! Or on the side of a building. Something like that.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 30 December 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, it's possible that your grandmother hated fun.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

i still wonder about this.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

It means that people who graffiti are FULES.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Arthur gave you a perfectly fine answer years back, Tracer!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

She was telling you to stay indoors.

― nabisco, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Fools Names and Faces In Public Places
by Betty Jackson
Monday, April 24, 2006
My mother used to quote this little proverb: Fools names and faces are always seen in public places. She told me that foolish people write their names and profanities on public property. I can say that I was never tempted to become a foolish person in that regard!

http://www.women-of-hope.com/2006/04/24/foolsNamesAndFacesInPublicPlaces

― Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

the names thing i get - it's a graffitti reference. but faces? all i can think of is what nabisco said. "i stay inside: i am wise!" ???

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe she meant they would later be seen on wanted posers. Or magazine covers.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it's a reference to attention seekers being exclusively turds

― darraghmac, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

All posers are wanted.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

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