Graffitti

[David Gilder]

Seen written in the dirt on the rear door of a wagon, with arrows pointing downwards to the collision bar...

 

"FREE AIRBAG TESTER"

 

Love it!!

[Peter Miller]

Seen in the dirt on the back of one of our works lorries back in the 70s. In the daus when they expected 20 hours work a day.

 

"Mummy, is Daddy dead?"

 

"No Dear, he just works for **********"

[Former Member]

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[Peter Miller]

One of my favourites seen on a bumper sticker.

 

Save energy! Be cremated with a friend.

[birdy]

My all time favorite was in a multistory car park in Tunbridge wells:

 

2B

or not 2B? 

[Peter Miller]

The one that I alwaays regret not  stopping to photograph:

 

A chalked pub sign that said

 

Sunday Lunch

Morris Dancers

 

Then there was the sign that I did photograph in an optician.

 

"Free frames with contact lenses"

 

I must scan them plus a real classic. and put them up here.

[Solid Snake]

Thought this was a good one 

[Peter Miller]

 Would you believe it?

 

Seen outside a pub. Salmonella AND E Coli?

 

And finally a very subtle one.

Edited By Peter Miller on 17/10/2010 12:19:35

[Tim Mackey]

I once saw a sign on the back of car -

 

"if you can read this - Ive lost my caravan"

[TonyS]

When I lived at uni there were seven of us and we all studied different subjects. One was an engineer and he was constantly having the mick taken out of him for doing the most "manual" course because he was weak in 't head...

 

He took in good part.

 

Written on the toilet wall at the end of the final year (his words):

 

3 yeers ago I kunt even spel enginere. Now i are one!

[Mowerman]

A bumper sticker I had on my car many years back .

I owe I owe its off to work I go.

[Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator]

Sometimes the apostrophe, or lack of it, can create unintentionally funny consequences. A few years ago I went into my local and just above a shelf full of brightly coloured small bottles of lemonade was a handwritten sign saying;

 

"Kiddies Pop"

 

Now normally I'd say nothing of course - but I thought this was quite amusing so I asked the manager if it was true that they did and under what circumstances it happened! He just looked at me as if I'd gone daft. As I knew him fairly well I explained that there should be an apostrophe. A few days later I went in again - and the sign now read:

 

"Kiddies Pop's"

 

I'd like to belive he was having a joke - sadly  don't think so

 

BEB

Edited By Biggles' Elder Brother on 17/10/2010 18:19:27

[Phil Brooks]

Seen in the early sixties in four foot high letters on a culvert in the wilds of Hackney Marshes:-   "Enoch Powell is not a Lesbian".  I'm still puzzling over the significance!

[Terence Lynock]

Seen on the wall of a music acadamy - 'Stockhausen stinks' and added underneath - ' especially if you tread in it'.

 

(

 Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), 20th Century modernist composer)

 

[Terence Lynock]

Quote from Julian of 'The Young Ones'  -   'I aint racist, I hate everybody! ' .

[Phil Claridge]

bumper sticker, spending the kids inheritance. on the other side,look after your kids they pick your nursing home

[Big Bandit]

Had a sticker at the bottom of the numberplate on the bike, written upside down "If you can read this, call an ambulance"

 

Chris.

[Josip Vrandecic -Mes]

A few years ago,when the local football club"Hajduk",from my city of Split,won first place on state championship,on the wall near stadium ,appeared graphite :

" Hajduk the first...,...Pope John Paul the second.."

 

p.s.nice try

[leccyflyer]

There's a couple of famous bits of graffiti, one of which has a bit of a link to that last one.

 

It's long been the fashion for some city churches to have huge posters outside, bearing messages of evangelism. In the 60's in Liverpool a church had the message posted on the wall  "Jesus Saves!" to which some wag had added "...but St John scores from the rebound!".

 

In a similar vein, one of those giant posters, on the church wall next to the #86 bus stop asked "Cometh the Day Of Judgement, where shall thou be? to which had been added "..still waiting for the Bl******  86!"

[Former Member]

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[Rob]

My favourite phrase that i saw the other day, that I thought very apt at this time 

....."Due to cut-backs the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off !!!".....

 

 

[Plummet]

I had a boss who, during some protracted and difficult negotiations with a company that did not care if the job was done or not, just as long as it was someone elses fault, replied to the question,

   "How's it going?"

by saying,

   "I think we can see a tunnel."

 

P

[Plummet]

On the radio yesterday there was a woman who was asked about the area she lived in, and her reply was something like,

 

   "I'll tell you what its like round here, If you fart, they'll nick it."

 

P

[Peter Miller]

My favourite is:

 

The light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming towards you

[Peter Miller]

The son of my next door neigbour lives on a local estate, quite a civilised one really.

 

He left an old, scrap washing machcine out for collection by the refuse people.

 

It was nicked.

 

That saved him £20 for the collection fee.