Graffiti was better in my day

[erolb]

Written in the dirt on the back of a delivery van.

"My name is Ken and I should have retired years ago"

[Devilstreak]

swiftpete said:

I live near a place called ockbrook. Of course someone added a C to the start of the sign. Simple but it used to make me chuckle.

The sign just when you come off the A52? i know the one..

[hman]

The one that always makes me smile is leaving High Wycombe and coming up hill towards Amersham. There is (was?) a yellow sign for a new development called The Shrubbery, to which someone has added "Ni Ni" (clue: Python).

[Carfiend]

hman said:

The one that always makes me smile is leaving High Wycombe and coming up hill towards Amersham. There is (was?) a yellow sign for a new development called The Shrubbery, to which someone has added "Ni Ni" (clue: Python).

Not seen that one. Must be a not so new development now.

[Celt]

I seen somebody had scribbled on a Stephen K Amos poster this year at the fringe

'Very unique show, no jokes.'

I liked it anyway.

[Jgtv]

I always thought this was one of the funnier ones, seen it in quite a few places now still makes me smile.

[ascayman]

Jgtv said:

I always thought this was one of the funnier ones, seen it in quite a few places now still makes me smile.

[DrTre]

b3ta said:

"I lived in Hyde Park - Leeds - through my degree, and the best graffitti that i have ever seen was on the wall next to Jacksons.

There was a cartoon of a woman in a crown with her thumbs up... with the words ''Big up the Queen Mam, being dead is mint'' written under it.


It still makes me laugh now.



Edit: Found a picture of it!"

Sorry about the tiny pic...it's gone from imageshack

[aclivity]

Tox.

I would happily bury that git under the thousands of spray cans that he must have used up in writing "Tox" multiple times. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's pathetic.

(this may be a local thing, I've never seen it outside north London)

[davemac250]

parakitaMol. said:

davemac250 said:

My favourite was the local National Westminster Bank having their letters removed from the front and re-arraged to

National Best wk.

Happened regularly for a summer.

No it didn't.

Why? You been following me around for 20 years?

Do you want the branch address - I still use it, although since '90 when this went on I suspect the staff have changed.

Sometimes you are a right miserable tt.

[scottb147]

Driving into Dundee one day - small signs at roadside for an art exhibition.
Someone had placed an F before art

[sneijder]

I thought the signage just said 'NatWest', unless they were branded 'National Westminister Bank' when you claimed this took place.

Therefore, I too think your claim is false. As offered, I would like the branch address.

Thank you in advance for your help in this matter, like most folk I can't sit back and relax when someone on the internet is wrong.

[hman]

Have we had "Paint your wagon Dave" which was daubed on the side of a railway bridge in Northolt?

[davemac250]

sneijder said:

I thought the signage just said 'NatWest', unless they were branded 'National Westminister Bank' when you claimed this took place.

Therefore, I too think your claim is false. As offered, I would like the branch address.

Thank you in advance for your help in this matter, like most folk I can't sit back and relax when someone on the internet is wrong.

Showing my age!

Re-branded to Natwest in the Mid 90's.

Address is (Now)

Natwest Bank (Student Branch)
UWE Campus
Coldharbour Lane
Frenchay
Bristol
BS16 1QY

The location may give away why there was so much tomfoolery! It was between the Union Bar and the Bus Stops!

[sadako]

aclivity said:

Tox.

I would happily bury that git under the thousands of spray cans that he must have used up in writing "Tox" multiple times. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's pathetic.

(this may be a local thing, I've never seen it outside north London)

No he goes to south London and surrounding areas too. It is a bit of a running joke when referencing graffitti in London now.

[Frankeh]

My guess is that originally it was just one dude.
Then people thought it was funny and started doing it themselves.
No way it's 1 person.

[sadako]

I think it is just one person, and that person has been busted for it before but all he does every day is tag "TOX" everywhere. I gather he used to do ornate murals but the powers that be that are cracking down on graffiti are making it hard to be around for long enough to do those, hense either moving into using stencils a la Banksy, preprepared stickers or just plain old "tagging" a name somewhere. All of these can be done in seconds.

There is a ghost chasing pacman that I saw in a railway tunnel every day when I was working in London that made me grin

[977]

[AstonZagato]

I remember one from the late 70's

"NICHOLAS PARSONS IS THE OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE"

[motco]

AstonZagato said:

I remember one from the late 70's

"NICHOLAS PARSONS IS THE OPIATE OF THE PEOPLE"

It was 'neo-opiate' and it was on the wall outside a school at the Harrow-on-the-Hill end of Kenton Road - correct? If so, I claim my £5