Remember the Bacardi billboard ads from years ago?I lived in Leytonstone in the late 1980s at the height of the acid house thang & there was a Bacardi ad right by the tube station. 'Peckham on a wet Saturday afternoon when you're drinking Bacardi' it said over a picture of a tropical paradise white-sand beach. Someone had pasted a piece of paper over the end of the sentence & written in so it said 'Peckham on a wet Saturday afternoon when you're ON LSD' They'd done quite a professional job too.
I always thought it would have been better (if a bit highbrow) to put 'Peckham on a wet Saturday afternoon when you're William Blake', but then I'm a bit sad...
(I always thought it would have been better (if a bit highbrow) to put 'Peckham on a wet Saturday afternoon when you're William Blake', but then I'm a bit sad...
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 15:53,
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Local ElectionThe Conservative candidate in a Grimsby local election several years back had public denounced homosexuality previouly in his career. So we replaced the slogan on his campaign poster with the words "HE'S A FUCKING NAZI". We did quite a good job but its not exactly imaginative....
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 16:01,
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Edinburgh's finest.Some great graffiti popped up in the very well-to-do area of Marchmont in Edinburgh...
- On one street a ground floor flat is owned by a psycho-vegan-guerilla-eco-warrior type, who hilariously once kidnapped my mate's cat and sent him a letter claiming the cat had told her it was being mistreated. This woman's front bay window is full of "meat is murder" and anti-fur and anti-hunt posters, on full view of all passers-by. The reply from the local youths was to write "EAT BEEF" on the door in very small, permanent black letters.
- Not so good this one, but for some reason a puritan local had taken it upon themselves to write "PORN PORN SHOP" on a sign for the local branch of Alldays.
- Same shop also had a big sign boasting "24 HOURS" under which was written in almost microscopic writing "OF SHITE".
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 16:07,
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- On one street a ground floor flat is owned by a psycho-vegan-guerilla-eco-warrior type, who hilariously once kidnapped my mate's cat and sent him a letter claiming the cat had told her it was being mistreated. This woman's front bay window is full of "meat is murder" and anti-fur and anti-hunt posters, on full view of all passers-by. The reply from the local youths was to write "EAT BEEF" on the door in very small, permanent black letters.
- Not so good this one, but for some reason a puritan local had taken it upon themselves to write "PORN PORN SHOP" on a sign for the local branch of Alldays.
- Same shop also had a big sign boasting "24 HOURS" under which was written in almost microscopic writing "OF SHITE".