oh, and on
the wall of the annexe at greycourt school, it said for years, in two foot high letters "the who" and nothing else. they just couldnt be bothered to clean, presumably
(flynntoff, Sat 5 May 2007, 18:39, Reply)

Many a "To Let" sign
has had an I added in the space. Made me laugh anyway!
( Uncle Tom I command thee to wibble, Sat 5 May 2007, 18:21, Reply)

Honesty
Friday evening, nipping into the Ladies at Leeds Uni many years ago -I nipped in cos the Gents was rammed, M'Kay?- for the second week running, I saw "There was a MAN in here tonight!" in neat block type. The third week I nipped in, below it was added "There was a MAN in HERE tonight!" above an anatomically perfect drawing of a vagina.


Length? She didn't reveal.

*pop*
(Reverend Rickenbacker, Sat 5 May 2007, 18:19, Reply)

Rue St Paul, Paris, 2000

Unshopped, just pearoasted. The pooor sods are trying to clean it off...
( De nada adan eD, Sat 5 May 2007, 18:06, Reply)

Students
At university in Manchester about 12 years ago, a housemate of a friend decided to publicly display his appreciation of baggy muppets The Stone Roses but, being a dunderheaded drugs-hoover, all he could manage was "The Stone Roes", sprayed on a wall.

To which some wit added "The best band in the wold"
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Sat 5 May 2007, 18:03, Reply)

On a dirty white van:
Dirty van seeks hot sponge for good clean fun.

There was also an anti smoking campaign at my friend's college which had the title 'The advantages of smoking' and then the rest of the poster was left blank. It was behind those perspex screens, but someone had managed to get one out and write things like 'It makes you thin' and 'It makes you look cool and sophisticated'

EDIT: This is really good graffiti though. Art on the back of vans. BBC story

can't think of a good length joke...
(Mr._Pickles, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:36, Reply)

FAR AWAY IS CLOSE AT HAND IN IMAGES OF ELSEWHERE
Used to be on the wall alongside the railway as you were coming into Paddington. There were days when catching a glimpse of it was the only thing that made me smile all day.

www.ruthpadel.com/pages/imigery.htm
( De nada adan eD, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:30, Reply)

In a cubicle
In my college, quite simply...

"Wank ma shite"
(I-boy6655321, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:30, Reply)

Also...
If you ever visit Inverness, pop into the upstairs Market Bar, the mens toilet door has become a veritable message board of black marker, with some incredibly funny heated debates :)
(Huw Edwards #notalljews, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:25, Reply)

crude but funny
the best bits of graffiti i ever saw was at my local skate park...

1. 'Wank it you Bollock'

2. 'Daddy only likes it when he makes me Bleed'

needless to say the latter of the two didn't last very long... probably due to many horrified parents complaining after bringing their children to get in the way.
(#monkey is salt-trash through and through, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:24, Reply)

Brunswick Cellars - Glasgow
On a condom machine in the gents: "For refund, insert baby here" with an arrow pointing to coin slot. Genius
(Huw Edwards #notalljews, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:21, Reply)

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Written on the ceiling above a urinal in my local (work) pub is the only graffiti in the place. The erratic spelling only adds to its brilliance as a summation of 21st century London life. Clearly the work of three different people, it says:

Shaka Kahn
ASBO
Cunt
( De nada adan eD, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:19, Reply)

Canal 2
"In the village where i live
there is a cul-de-sac which is called CANAL GARDENS and i'm waiting for someone to change it, failing that i'll have to get the ol' hammer and chisel out to do some work on it."

In the town where I live there is a sign saying "NEWPORT CANAL". Someone has come along and removed the "L", so it says "CANA".

Kids today. No bloody imagination.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:13, Reply)

That'll learn the Yanks
A few years ago in Belgrade, Serbia, at the height of tensions and conflict between the West and Serbia, I saw a good one scrawled in huge letters on a wall in the city centre. It was in Serbo-English, by which I mean the message was written kind of in English, but had been phonetically transcribed so that it could be read easily by Serbs with a characteristic Slavic accent. It read: "Jenkis go hom!" (Yankees go home!).
Just one problem: it was written in the Cyrillic alphabet, so only Serbian-speakers could read it, and I don't think it reached its target audience.
( Biffins Bridge, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:12, Reply)

In Paris, France

It's a 'Coq au Van'.

God i'm childish some times.
(generalname, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:05, Reply)

Best QOTW in ages.......
Scrawled in huge letters down an ally in Donegal

FUCK IRACK

Mindbending
(Mongjaw Its all a big money racket, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:03, Reply)

Not exactly graffiti....
When I was about 13, I decided to hilariously flick a banana skin across a classroom with a ruler.

It flew high up, hit a rafter, and stuck. Just then, the teacher walked in.

All through the lesson, it dangled over the teacher's head, threatening to fall on her at any moment.

I was sure she'd notice it hanging - she must have thought I was extra-attentive that day as I seemed to concentrate so hard!

It didn't fall down that day, or that week, and was still there more than 10 years later when I visited the school, still wrapped around the edge of the rafter but blackened beyond recognition.

After that, the rafters were boxed in when modern ceilings were put up. It must be there to this day, clinging to the cold metal, plotting its escape.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 5 May 2007, 17:02, Reply)

In the village where i live
there is a cul-de-sac which is called CANAL GARDENS
and i'm waiting for someone to change it, failing that i'll have to get the ol' hammer and chisel out to do some work on it.
( weaver., Sat 5 May 2007, 16:58, Reply)

graffiti
Berkely California: Dooky Ball Paul Loves Icky Ball Dicky
(nezumi, Sat 5 May 2007, 16:38, Reply)

In Lancaster
there's one of those huge electrical transformers (might be a robot in disguise in fact) with the danger of electrical death sign
av.rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5XvhojxGYkIB5n2HBqMX;_ylu=X3oDMTBwanIybjRqBHBndANhdHdfaW1nX3Jlc3VsdARzZWMDc3I-/SIG=13ln2dapc/EXP=1178465377/**http%3a//www.instant-art.com/catalog-safetysigns/warning/images/warn007-danger%2520of%2520death.jpg
someone had written underneath "Thor hates You!"
( weaver., Sat 5 May 2007, 16:33, Reply)

On the back of a toilet door...
in my university library, someone had written in huge letters, with a black marker pen "Jesus Saves". In small biro scrawl underneath, some wit had appended "but John the Baptist scores on the rebound".

Perficio satura.
(shitworth, Sat 5 May 2007, 16:22, Reply)

This is probably an old one,
and I did steal this from my brother, but:

In Tesco's bogs, someone scratched the first and last letters off their slogan "Every Little Helps", so it became "very little help". It's not the best story, but if someone could do it to one of their massive signs somehow, that would be impressive.
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Sat 5 May 2007, 16:21, Reply)

Six Mile Water
Six Mile water in Antrim, someone always gets out the marker pen and adds a few strokes (pardon the pun!)

Was very amusing when you're ten!
(fuzzibear, Sat 5 May 2007, 16:11, Reply)

Never use real chalk for a pub menu
Before: Home cooked food - check out our menu
After: Home cocked food - check out our men
(lolwhites, Sat 5 May 2007, 16:10, Reply)

At my 6th Form
On a fire procedure sheet pinned on a wall it said "Upon discovering a fire:" next to this someone had wrote "BURN THE WITCH!"

still makes me laugh

length? it was a A4 sheet of paper
( weaver., Sat 5 May 2007, 16:04, Reply)

In the mountains of western Virginia
Route 33 crosses over the Appalachian Mountains, and right about at the border between Virginia and West Virginia it does a series of very sharp and scary hairpin turns- on one side of the road is a huge rock face, on the other side it drops down about 50 feet to the next stretch of road.

Going into these curves they have very large yellow signs with big black arrows to indicate that there is a curve. On one of these someone wrote "And how!!"
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 5 May 2007, 15:48, Reply)

A road near is
is called Kipling Road.
For years, the sign's been changed by generations of youths to the surreal Pling Road

Now with the addition of a bit of black marker, it's Bling Road
( Duncan Disorderly, Sat 5 May 2007, 15:43, Reply)

Hehe
Just remembered, the company I work for has a van with I am a pile of shite scrawled on the back of it. This van has been in use, all over Northern Ireland for a few weeks now, and no one seems to have noticed it...

Yep, I have a very boring job, and writing things like that on the back of vans is the highlight of my day
(fuzzibear, Sat 5 May 2007, 15:37, Reply)

Blind Summit Signs
Am I the only person with the urge to scrawl You should have gone to specsavers on these signs?

I am?

Oh well, always knew I didn't fit in...
(fuzzibear, Sat 5 May 2007, 15:34, Reply)

Pubs
Just remembered one form many many years ago, ah the joys of young age drinking. I digress.

Kangaroo's Pub Den Haag, on the back of the toilet door

"As i sit and hesitate, should i shit or masturbate".

On the wall in a pub somewhere near Shagwell "I wish my girlfried was a dirty as this toilet" Made me chortle.
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Sat 5 May 2007, 15:29, Reply)