more shameless Ucking
Down here in Kent there is a town called Uckfield, named after the river that runs past it. It's the only place I've ever seen a non-rectangular river name-sign to avoid graffiti, it's shaped thusly:
______
|RIVER|
  |UCK|
  ¯¯¯¯
( NomDePlume fo shizzle my nizzle old bean, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:52, Reply)

Stone
There's a village that I used to drive through on my way to work in Rotherham (something else I'm sorry about).

This village was called "Stone" - Of course, it was hilarious to change the sign to "Stoned". Apparently.

It didn't matter how small the sign was made, it was still changed.

I never found that one funny.

Neither did the residents I reckon.....
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:51, Reply)

Wormwood,
have you heard about the tales of those toilets? Particularly the 3rd floor ones..

The toilets in the philosophy department are quite good as well. Definitely enough to keep you entertained for a good half hour. The toilets in the med school don't have any, but they do have handprints on the back wall at about the right level for someone getting a good seeing to from behind....
( Fudgebags will wear you like a glove, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:51, Reply)

Free Nelson Mandela
Someone I used to know once told me he saw a piece grafitti that read FREE NELSON MANDELA
... and underneath someone had scrawled
WITH EVERY TEN GALLONS
(badfox1 wonders who he's played by this episode on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:50, Reply)

Union Road
For some reason, the sign for a road round the corner from me was changed from "Union Road" to "Onion Toad"

For reasons I never understood, it made me laugh. Every time.

I'm so very sorry
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:50, Reply)

Banksy


From My moblog

( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:49, Reply)

Furthermore.
Graffiti isn't quite the word but this one makes me wee every single time I go past it.

In Margate we have Poorhole Lane.

Every single time we have a sign put up the 'r' has been removed. A new sign is inevitably put up and the 'r' is removed once more.

After about 6 or 7 times you'd think the council would get the point that no-one in the area has a mental age beyond 12 (good in only a certain number of cases) but no, resources are being continually wasted.

But in the best possible way.

Futile efforts from authorities are always fun.
(I R Tomsk pyromaniacs will only inflame the situation, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:48, Reply)

there's been a spate of these quotation marks popping up
this one was at a bus stop on green lanes in london



made me chuckle
( daf 's been photoshopping real life again, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:48, Reply)

CUNTS WANT BEEF!
Basically this is the best conjunction of three words in the history of literature. I saw it on a phone box in Balham, but here it is on the Church Sign Generator.


( collapsibletank procreates, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:48, Reply)

Village Names...very abusable!
I live near a village called 'Uckington' in Gloucestershire, and quite regularly the village name sign is altered to read 'Fuckington', or even better, just 'Fucking'.

When I was at Uni in Leicester the village where my halls were was called 'Scraptoft', and this was often defaced by the naughty students to simply read 'crap'.

And it was. It really really was.
(Kelpy22 wants to get drunk and play pingpong on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:47, Reply)

Leicester University
Sitting on the toilet at my sister's university bar a good few years back, I noticed some extremely small graffiti on the bottom of the door... Lean forwards straining to read it and it says "You are now peeing on your shoes" - genius!
( NomDePlume fo shizzle my nizzle old bean, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:47, Reply)

True.
Underneath a sign in the toilets at McDonalds in Maidstone a while back...

NOW WASH YOUR HANDS
^{...because you don't know where the food has been!}

Classic.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:46, Reply)

Another one.
Outside my College there are a load of white corrugated metal fences, and in big black lettering on one of them: "Question Everything!"
I walked past one day and asked myself "but why?"
...
...
Job done, I guess.
(tiredhorses, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:46, Reply)

I love drawing on boxes of Family Circle


If the guy designing it didn't want this to happen, he wouldn't have put the jammy dodger and the chocolate finger so close to one another.
(__, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:45, Reply)

Hello Mr Fudgebags!
I'm also at Glasgow! The ladies' loo in the library has some gems, but my flatmate once told me a tale. He was in a cubicle, idly reading the typical "come and suck my boaby" graffiti. A chap had written that he'd like to suck a man's cock, and requested advice. This had been added. He'd written back, now asking how to find a man to suck off. "That's easy," someone had replied, "you just let them know you're here by tapping your foot."

My flatmate is a drummer.

He stopped tapping his feet.

No overexcited cottagers that time, but he was lucky...
(w0rmwood pearl, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:44, Reply)

i always liked the scratching outs on the tube
changing the signs that read
'Obstructing the doors can be dangerous'
to
'Obstruct the doors be dangerous".
( mrlogic is copying your beard, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:42, Reply)

In toilets
simple -

"While you're reading what i've put, you are pissing on your foot"

seen it twice now, might be a 'quote' from something.
( Shiodome has realised numbers in names aren't cool., Thu 3 May 2007, 18:41, Reply)

the pleasant spa town of leamington
has some of the most whimsical graffiti of anywhere. when i lived there a few years ago, its gems included:
GORDON BROWN, TEXTURE LIKE SUN
(massive black letters on the front of the station);
a series of time updates ending at 4.19am with the eminently sensible
AVOID CIDER;
and, painted on a pavement
GOT TO GET TO THE... BURNS UNIT?
(this one trailed off at the end, so you wondered if the author ever made it to his destination);
( plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:41, Reply)

Bestest ever
In a bog in Cambridge - A Freudian slip is where you say one thing and mean your mother.
( shrinking man Been away a while, time I ventured back, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:40, Reply)

At work
In the toilets the sign reading
"Please refrain from putting chewing gum in the urinals"
had been changed with a marker to read
"please refrain from chewing the urinals"
(Haggard, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:36, Reply)

Battersea...

( mrlogic is copying your beard, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:36, Reply)

Baddiel...
Used to like "M.Khan is bent".

With good reason.
(beatpig understands subliminalesbianmessagaying., Thu 3 May 2007, 18:36, Reply)

"DYSLEXICS UNITE!"
Guildford public toilets.

What comes around...
( TIAL Four capital letters, written in gold., Thu 3 May 2007, 18:33, Reply)

Bus shelter in Brentwood, Essex circa 1990
"Don't beam me up now Scotty - I'm having a shit!"
(Waynster James Joyce is fucking my sister!, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:33, Reply)

On a condom machine,
in Glasgow's uber-twee Mono bar/record shop/gig venue:


(Chanticleer, kept, awkwardly, pausing, on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:31, Reply)

A particular favourite in London
On a tube once I saw a poster with "In case of emergency"

Someone had scrawled underneath "CALL THE JELLYFIENDS!"

Me and my mate still find this hilarious, 20 years later
(Waynster James Joyce is fucking my sister!, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:30, Reply)

I live in Amsterdam
Which is often shortened to ADam. On a bus I once saw that some borough hooligans had declared how proud they were of where they lived by scrawling "ADam West Rules!"

Quite why they felt so strongly for the batman star I will never know
(Waynster James Joyce is fucking my sister!, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:29, Reply)

Poetic
In an alley in Birmingham

"Fire water raining down from the sky"

Accompanied with a picture of a cloud, and in 3d blue writing.
(Urban Hermit Exit, pursued by a bear on, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:28, Reply)

amazed
noone's done this yet - canal street in manchester, where all the gay bars are (or used to be until the gay crowd got fed up with everyone else crashing it and moved on). always always always gets amended to read:

ANAL TREET.

why am i still at work, btw? why?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:28, Reply)

In a service station toilet cubicle..
On my left, "To play toilet tennis, look right",
On my right, "To play toilet tennis, look left".

Simple, yet somewhat inspired.
(hakasin Where in shitting crikey is my nose?, Thu 3 May 2007, 18:28, Reply)