Change
During the 80s there was an advert for (I think) British Gas which featured a hand holding out a load of small change, with the slogan 'CHANGE'.

I guess the clever thought behind it was 'change to British Gas, and you'll get more change'

Some bright spark had sprayed the sign in VERY big letters, so it now read:

CHANGE - BECOME A DYKE
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 4 May 2007, 18:41, Reply)

I have three examples...
Cricklade College, Andover:
Many moons ago there was a tour of the college set up for the local secondary school children. Among the many exhibits put out on display in the biology department was a dissected rabbit stored in a tank of formaldehyde, its innards all neatly spread out and labeled. Placed with equal neatness and precision upon the tank was a small notice left by one of the college students. It read: "Bugs Bunny".

Southampton University:
Again many moons ago whilst I was wandering the darker, lower recesses of the student union building I happened to venture on a plaque marking one of the debating chambers... someone amended it to "Maths Debating Chamber".

The last one was in a hospital waiting room. Among the reading material present was a girly-type annual circa 1972 (it was probably a cheap knock off of Bunty) – inside the annual was a photo story. In one picture was a (suspiciously) cheery male lift attendant stood in a lift with a young girl. The original text read "Going down?" to which somebody added a cute little speech bubble from the girl saying "Yes please!" For some strange reason this has mentally scarred me and I still cannot go into any lift without quoting this.
( Templeton Blah, blah, blah..., Fri 4 May 2007, 18:38, Reply)

what did you call me?
on a tree in by the canal, the immortal words 'bolax you' had been writ. a friend read it aloud and then asked what 'bolax' meant...

aieeeee.
(rollerdisco, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:37, Reply)

On a windowledge underneath a butchers
in tiny handwriting you would have to stare to find it:
"Bernard Matthews is a bastard"
(CRM, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:28, Reply)

Remembered another one..
This was scrawled on the side of my friends house by some clever little chavs- 'I hate the goff in house'. Thought it was cute.
(coathanger, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:25, Reply)

Gunnesbury Tube Station
"D Rogers smells" in tiny,very neatly written handwriting

you can imagine how much the author hated D Rogers to tell the world this fact...
(CRM, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:21, Reply)

"I dislike the reader of this very much"
and "I made love to Patrick's mother"

sombody even painted rather professionally, a picture if a large male genitalia!

oh how the students laughed at that slideshow...
(abignumber, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:16, Reply)

Northwick Park Roundabout
"Nicholas Parsons Is The Opiate Of The People"
(CRM, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:06, Reply)

it's quite the sight to behold.
i live outside of washington, DC; and nearby there is a very large mormon temple. when you're driving on the highway, this is what it looks like as it rises above the treeline.



here's another view from the highway, driving west:




you can't see it here, but on the second bridge in that picture (that greenish bit, it's a CRX railroad bridge) there's usually some graffiti spraypainted to look almost like a large banner spanning the highway that reads "FREE DOROTHY" or "SURRENDER DOROTHY". one year a particularly enterprising vandal managed to write out "WELCOME TO OZ". the bridge has to be repainted several times a year.

edit: i didn't realize there was a wikipedia article about it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_Dorothy
(Sarahfax, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:06, Reply)

My local
which is called "The Wheatsheaf" is just down the road. One friday night at about 3 in the morning i was woken up by my mate asking for me to come outside. When i did I found him holding a giant letter F and told me to hide it. It was very late and i had to be up at a reasonable time so I took it, no questions. Later that day as I drove past the pub I realised where the giant F, now in my bedroom, was from. The Pub's giant sign now read "The he she ".... It stayed like that for two months, the owner was never there and the bar workers loved it, that was until some shady characters started turning up and rumours started about it being the only transexual friendly pub in the area. Still got the F (sorry for length)
(Phagenius, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:04, Reply)

On the M40
within about 5 miles of each other:

-On a bridge in 6 foot high letters, someone
has shown their feelings about war. It reads:
PEAS

-On a fence near where I live there has always
been the slogan "Why do I do this every day?"
written on it facing the motorway. About a
year ago, the same bloke returned with
"Why do I STILL do this every day?"

pictures when I can find them.
(CRM, Fri 4 May 2007, 18:01, Reply)

The church had a poster outside...
...that said "If life's a beach, who put the sand there?"

Underneath was written: "Erosion."
(Ekks_Scremant, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:45, Reply)

On a railway bridge...
...in deepest, darkest South Wales

"RUSSELL'S GRAN SMELLS OF WEE"
(Chuffdog, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:45, Reply)

I have two.


On the wall of a café in Lausanne "The fish will bee free!"


Outside my door in halls in Siena there's a sign that used to say "Vietato fumare/no smoking". It now reads "no fucking".

And a crap phone photo from a wall in Lausanne that looks like Salad Fingers.


( Maladicta, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:37, Reply)

Tottenham fans, eh?
On a railway bridge in Bedford, about 25 years ago there used to be a spray-painted attempt at support for a north London footy club, which read:

SPRUS

Yes, exactly like that. It's amused me ever since.
( Araucaria is such a tit, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:31, Reply)

Unfortunately at our school they closed the toilet with the best graffiti in it...
...it said "Fuck me Miss McCallum"
( St. Defenestration The REAL one, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:30, Reply)

The swimming pool in Ely.
Had it's name in individual letters stuck onto the building. (You can see where this is going can't you.)

One evening after quite a long afternoon spent in one of the local drinking dives I was walking back to the bus stop when I was summoned by a call of nature. Having nowhere else to go I rushed into the reception to use their conveniences.

It certainly lived up to the name of Paradise Poo that evening.
(atomkinder is deeply unfashionable, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:28, Reply)

Darlington Town Centre, circa. 1999
And suddenly the town sprouted graffiti _everywhere_ about two characters named "Stuart Goodchild" and "Jackie Watson".

It started off with the charmingly innocent "Stuart Goodchild fucks Jackie Watson". Mild enough, although the frequency of its placement throughout the town shown that this was the graffito of someone determined to declaim this fact to the world.

"Jackie Watson sucks Stuart Goodchild's cock" was emblazened on shop fronts in Post House Wynd, in the bogs in the Pennyweight, in the subways on Bondgate and Northgate, practically everywhere you looked you were being told about this particular tryst.

After a couple more months, the poster was back, with "Stuart Goodchild fucks Jackie Watson and she shaves her fanny for him", the message of the first wave being subverted by the additional clause. This also appeared in numerous locations around Darlington Town Centre.

I always wondered who these two people were, and if this was the act of some random nutjob, the act of the spurned ex-partner of either Stuart or Jackie, or indeed either of the two declaring their sexual activity to an unsuspecting world.

Scratch that last one - if they'd been doing the graffiti they'd never have had time to fuck.

[Edit - just noticed a twatty typo. 'pols all.]

YS
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:20, Reply)

Odd one.
Nottingham Uni. Physics department bloke's bog cubicle wall.

"I came down from mars in a tobacco tin
My hair is falling out
So why is a pig
Why is it eh?"
( Hoagie, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:19, Reply)

Nazis Rule
In the Anne Frank Museum's gents' toilets in Amsterdam, some wit had drawn a swastika in pencil and written:

Nazis Rule

underneath.

I thought of rubbing it out, but I left it for the next visitor to enjoy.

Dr S
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:16, Reply)

Railway bridges
On a railway bridge next to Southend East Station "Sian Lewis is a cow"

and then underneath in different handwriting/pens
"Bitch"
"Slag"
"Whore"
"Tart"
"Mung"

etc etc
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 4 May 2007, 17:15, Reply)

Toilet Graffiti
We've all seen graffiti at the bottom of toilet doors; "Beware of limbo dancers." A local factory, Lucas SEI (the company that made the wiring for Rover) had handwritten above the toilet roll holder "Get your NVQs here."
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 4 May 2007, 17:12, Reply)

in the bogs at work
WILLO HAS GOT MORE FACES THAN A FUCKING TOTEM POLE. he has an all, the backstabbing cunt
(studdley ruffrod no crack too slack, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:12, Reply)

Not brilliant..
..but it amused me when I was drunk-
Toilet cubicle in a bar in Durham: 'Scott like to have sex with a pigs'.. accompanied by a charming rendering of the act.

I quite like one in our lecture theatre too: 'Beware the deadly donkey, falling for the sky, you can choose the way you live my friend but not the way you die'
*Pop*
(coathanger, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:10, Reply)

Church fire
A local church burnt down in the early 80s. At the time the local billboard outside had a poster on it asking "CH--CH. What's missing?" The correct answer of course was "You Are," but some wise cracker added underneath, "Half the bloody church"
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 4 May 2007, 17:10, Reply)

"STEPH CARTER HAZ A CHEEZY MINGE"
/Margate Court and Library building, Cecil Square, circa 1998
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:06, Reply)

Small but exciting
Whilst sitting in a cubicle at work once, I saw some extremely small writing near the bottom of the toilet door. I bent forward to read what it said. Someone had written (in extremely neat handwriting) "You are now pooing at an angle of 45 degrees". I laughed some poo out.
(3-hoops, Fri 4 May 2007, 17:04, Reply)

Only in Hartlepool...
...would you get such a wonderful view.



It's been there for about 5 years too. I'm thinking it's been kept there as it's a work of art.
( TGP on the rock 'n' roll, Fri 4 May 2007, 16:58, Reply)