"FREAK OUT '73" sprayed on a bus shelter near where I live. Sprayed there in, like 1993 or thereabouts. Why?
"ANDY GASH SMOKES THE HASH" sprayed in MASSIVE letters on a derelict factory on my train route to work. Assuming andy gash is/was the guy's real name, why not just spray "drug cops bust here" on yer front door.
Again, on my train route to work, there was this tiny brick shed in the middle of this enormous & VILE post industrial wasteland - filthy scum- ridden ponds, boggy etc. One day, someone sprayed, with great care & attention, and very neatly, the words "BONKERS RAVE". "bonkers rave". Jeeeesus Christ.....!?
As a supplementary question. Assume you find a patch of wet cement/concrete. What you write there will remain visible for 20+ years. What do you write? Off the top of my head I can't think of anything I'd put, but it would have to be something truly VILE!
x0x0
― "Jerry Cornelius", Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― duane zarakov, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― same guy, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Quite sweet really in this day and age.
― Emma, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
He was set free, to great rejoicing. Re-offending — I mean, first-time offending, duh — within the month (armed robbery) he was sent down for twice as long as before.
(In the 80s, spray-painting wags started a GEORGE JACKSON IS INNOCENT campaign, agitating on behalf of an unjustly banged-up character in Brookside.)
― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― gareth, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Nicole, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
They're Maoists: before they bought their stencils (or whatever), they wrote slogans and signed them something like "CPGB (Maoists)", which I always felt probably didn't play that well in Stoke Newington (let alone Hackney = Little Vietnam).
But WAR ON DRUGS IS A SHAM/PERU WILL BE THE NEXT VIETNAM is kewl, and that's them too (I think).
― Andrew L, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Especially since they covered up all the Fang grafitti in there with all that shit. I mean, Fang is fucking punk rock -- two classic albums, then the singer murders his girlfriend, goes to jail, gets out ten years later, and reforms the band with all new members cuz the old ones are scared of him. But then, 924 Gilman isn't punk rock at all, really. There's nothing punk rock about grape soda for a quarter, that's far more than I've ever gotten from punk rock.
― Kris, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Patrick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Pois is a Toy.
― JM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
S'funny, I saw one on the same line somewhere a few years ago that read: "communism is watching"
I used to see the same piece of graffiti in an undrpass on my way to work everyday, in HUGE, gloopy letters: "BL IS A BASIC BOY" and next to it "LETS KICK SUM SHIT". Very curious.
I lived in York for a time and my favourite graffiti was written, very neatly on a wall next to a small patch of recreation ground. It read: "I HATE TO SEE THE KIDS PLAYING IN THE DOG-DIRT". I always had a suspicion it was written by dreadlocked journalist, arch-prankster and poor Chris Morris copyist, Victor Lewis-Smith, who lived in the area at the time.
― DavidM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
There is way too much stupid grafitti in NYC though, I'd have to carry around a notebook to catalog it all, or even pay attention to it at all. It's just that bad. It's like the worst grafitti you could possibly imagine. I've seen "DUDE" spray painted though, just "DUDE", and I found that very funny.
― Ally, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I had some affection for this peice. It was as if someone had heard someone say something so preposterous that they hadn't simply repeated it back in bewilderment, but had dawbed their incredulity across a west London flyover in a two hour grafitti spree of anger.
I was bitterly disappointed when I learned three minutes ago that the real reason was this:
http://www.orbyn.com/archive/2001_04_08_index.htm
― Magnus, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DG, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Kim, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― duane, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― gareth, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Pointless bridge for parkland walk in Highgate still has "White Riot 77" on it - and it looks old enough. And only two weeks ago the never open Crescent Cafe on Crouch End Hill had a complete graffiti make- over. Fucked if I know what it says but is damn purty.
― Pete, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
(Shit, now I must ensure everything I type is perfect.........)
― Emma, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
This excerpt from the link provided (above, a bit) made me laugh:
Does this mean things have got so desperate for Mr Goldman that he's been obliged to memesplat the countryside?
MEMESPLAT! Ha! Excellent!
― gggf ffff, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― di, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Another one I saw and remembered was scratched into a table at The Captain Cook:
'AB(lightning zig-zag)CD'
― rainy, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― dmofo (dmofo), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm also tired of reading "EARSNOT" scribbled on things. I don't care what it means. It's crap.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)
There isn't an arrow next to it pointing downward, is there? Or outward? Or up?
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)
If you "support" George W. Bush ...... you might be a redneck ...
Only someone has since crossed out "you might be a redneck" and written in a caret and "you might be godly."
(Below this, FUCK WAR has been Magic Markered into ROCK GWAR.)
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)
*retires*
http://www.osric.com/~jeremy/sanfran/sanfran0265.jpg
― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/2003nyc/alexinnyc.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)
My personal favorite was driving across Indiana and seeing about 2 solid hours worth of overpasses grafittied with "Believe in Jesus" again and again and again until finally I came to one which had Jesus x'd out and "yourself" painted underneath.
I think neckface "wins" this thread though.
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 6 March 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)
When driving across the country in the year 2000, somewhere near Burnt Prairie, Illinois, I saw an overpass painted with the following: "Amber is hot!"
― hstencil, Saturday, 6 March 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)
they painted a penis onto a soup bowl.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)
― Will (will), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)
http://www.atarimagazines.com/whizkids/community/page3.jpg
― get to thA CHOPPA / A++++++ SELLER (ex machina), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago)
― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago)
FUCK LAKEWOODARTSIE FARTSIE FAGSLOOSERS
I think of it every time I think of Lakewood, & almost every time I think of Cleveland.
― PeterAbe1ard (PeterAbe1ard), Saturday, 2 July 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago)