notable things you have ever seen scrawled upon on a public restroom wall/toilet stall

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I can't really think of any particular examples that stand out, but I'm sure somebody here does.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant to call this thread, "What are the most notable things you have ever seen scrawled upon a public restroom toilet stall?"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

At a mall bathroom stall I saw about 50 different "I am a 14yr old kids who wants to have - insert freaky sex act here -" with either a phone number or the date and time they'd be back at that bathroom.

I couldn't decide if it was all some elaborate joe or not.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite:

this line has five words
this one seven syllables
I'm writing haiku

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

!llaw siht fo edis rehto eht no renosirp a m'I !pleH

― Skottie, Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

At a bar in Seattle in 1995 called "The Comet" (or maybe it was the Rocket, actually)...supposedly a big favorite of the dwindling Grunge crowd....scrawled above the stalls in the bathroom....

SMELLS LIKE TEEN URINE

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i was disturbed to see "emily v is a bitch" scratched, not written, into the wall at my favorite bar. but also, there is a kentucky phenomenon of bathroom graffiti. the words "call mike 299-1035 for a good time" are etched in every bathroom in the state. the strange thing is that mike has not changed his number. it is real! call him! for a good time!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"even here is holy."

i thought it was weirdly moving at the time.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bathroom stalls in college libraries are always good for weird and elaborate messages. My favorite was when someone wrote the first stanza or so of Dylan's "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," which somebody took to be a sarcastic commentary on the student body. (This was an small, expensive, private liberal arts school.) He wrote that he paid his own way through school and wasn't born into privilege like everyone else. This prompted more responses, some agreeing with the guy, others saying he was overreacting, others saying the song was crap and didn't warrant such a fuss. The discussion eventually filled up the entire stall door, and I purposely studied in that part of the library just so I could keep a tab on it. A janitor finally noticed it and painted over it, but it was pretty neat while it lasted.
The bathroom wall: the true origin of the internet message board? :^p

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

In the men's room at the Cedar Tavern on 11th Street & Univeristy Place.

"Nietsche is Pietsche!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate the stuff on the walls of the women's in the arts building, its all sucking boyfriends cocks, being bulimic, trying to lose weight. i go to the toilet to relieve myself, not to get depressed by anonymous scrawl.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 6 March 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The secret bulimic message board: underneath the toilet rim.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"NO EXIT"

Which, especially back in them soviet days, wasn't exactly the bestest of messages to suddenly notice in the midst of managing a problematic crap in a dogawfully shit-stewn public lavatory, in a railway station in the middle of nowhere.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"nick fleet is the gay snake."

and a picture of a penis that some person had cleverly turned into a drawing of a blue-bottle.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dile no a las drogas. Somos muchos y queda poca. --AnÃ³nimo"
That was actually written on a classroom desk, but a CLASSIC nevertheless.

Also:
"Que mucha mierda la gente escribe en las paredes!"

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Uuh???

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I could tell you what it means, but I'd have to kill you.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 6 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

When Estonians and Puerto Ricans meet and contemplate! And they can reflect on dealing with overly friendly and powerful colonial 'neighbors.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"don't look here the joke's in yer hands!"

and

"he who writes on shithouse walls rolls his shit into little balls ... AND EATS IT!" (i think the "AND EATS IT!" was added on by someone else)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Elizabeth Bell Is A Buttery Bitch"

A wonderfully poetic use of alliteration.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'my mom made me a lesbian'

'if i supply the yarn, will she make me one, too?'

(I always thought this was made up, but I really did see it a couple days ago)

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Francis! -- Let's meet in a non-allied country somewhere, find ourselves some mutha of a shithouse wall and contemplate there to our hearts's content without the compulsion to kill anyone (right then and there, at least)!
A deal? I could teach you some obscenities in Estonian and Mordvin, not to mention Russian, too ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i've always kinda wanted to know how to cuss in latvian.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

In another stall in another school, someone wrote "All bitches love big strong juicy black cocks." I changed "cocks" to "books." The guy who wrote the original message later added "and cocks."

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this one was in a private bathroom, at my grandmother's house:
IT'S A SMALL WORLD -
BUT I WOULDN"T WANT TO PAINT IT

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"HELLO USA WE ARE FROM BERLIN AND WE ARE ROCKING"

stall in flagstaff, arizona coffee shop

― (Jon L), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Who here amongst the Mpls people remembers JOPY? It was an enigmatic pseudo-tag (written out in very plain non-graf-style lettering), usually in fairly small fonts in U of M Campus/West Bank bathrooms. Someone once wrote a footnote that theorized "JOPY" stood for "Jewish Oprah Winfrey".

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A deal? I could teach you some obscenities in Estonian and Mordvin, not to mention Russian, too ;)
-- t\'\'t (phon...), March 6th, 2004.

t\'\'t, I kiss you.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember seeing a programming joke scrawled above a urinal at a coffee shop near NYU. *nerd noise*

― original bgm, Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't come here to sit and wonder
but to piss and shit and fart like thunder.

― Paul Kelly, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked this one too...

One would think, to read such wit
that Shakespeare's ghost came here to shit.

― Paul Kelly, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey! We don't swim in your toilet. Please don't pee in our pool.
(From the fine folks at Howard Johnson's)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome to our Ool. Notice there is no P in it.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"in the usual suspects, the guy with the limp did it"

I had not seen the film when I read this written quite neatly on the wall above the urinal in my university union toilet.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

there's one great entry i remember from my childhood absorption of the nigel rees graffiti books, which i love for its obscenity and its casual, drunken surrealism... on a wall in australia somewhere...

"kenny fucks spiders"

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it when you read lengthy debates about the war in Iraq or whatever, and half way through someone has written I LIKE BRITNEY! I saw one on a tube platform at King's Cross a while back and it was like reading ILE.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

'Derrida can suck my cock'

Male toilet, 3rd floor, Lancaster University Library 1995.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

heh.

"People liked me better when I was younger" in a women's room at my art college alma mater.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone wrote "Supreme Court Justices have shat here!" in a stall at Harvard Law, and if a pencil can scrawl in hushed, awed tones, this one did. I found it pretty pathetic.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a good one...

" REAL EYES
REALIZE
REAL LIES "

ha!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

At a place I hang out frequently it is written: "M1k3 Sull1v4n hides tampons in his sideburns."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit Emily, is that for real? Is that in Buster's? WEAK.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in college a bzillion years ago, there was a creepy gynecologist who worked at the clinic. The first time I got fit for a diaphragm, all shy and nervous about the fact I was planning to have sex, she made me feel embarrassed that I needed "the very smallest" one. There was also something creepy about her touch.

They used to paper the bathroom stalls to allow people to easily write on them. Somebody wrote "Has anybody else had creepy experiences with the clinic gynecologist?" The answers filled the stall walls. She was fired as a result.

― Maria D., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

In the Hope and Anchor, Islington.
"Desdemona was here."

(Nice middle class name and perfect grammar, most Islington grafiti ever)

In The Ghetto, Soho
"Books are better than girls. Text not sex."

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

From a long time ago...

"If black is beautiful, then I just shit a masterpiece."

For some reason, this one has always stuck with me.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

From when I was in high school

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."

The quote was attributed to U2.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

GERSHWIN RULES "OH, KAY!"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

For mine to work I need to know how to cross out words. Help plz =[

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

gear!
use the strikeout tag:

<s> to open
</s> to close

voila: <s>strikeout</s> becomes ~~strikeout~~

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

excellent! written in black on a stall:

Eric Clapton is the son of God!

became, through the help of a bright red sharpie:

Eric Clapton's ~~is the~~ son ~~of God~~ is dead.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

At Purchase College, there was a lot of "HEROIN IS LOVE" and "HEROIN = LOVE" graffiti scarwled everywhere

also, I remember this one from grade school, it stuck with me for some reason:

"The lines on your dick are veins."

Indeed they are, friend. Indeed they are.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom once told me that she saw my name scrawled in the stall of a ladies room. That is the most disturbed and curious I have ever been.

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i always like it when somebody scrawls FUCK YOU. they don't even know who's going to see it! what if you write that and then come back five years later and forgot it was you who wrote it and read it?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucky Dog Music Hall, Worcester:

"Try to stand but neither leg is awake
Just this side of love
Is where you'll find the confidence not to continue"

Built to Spill - Else

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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