Once upon a time, many years ago (1994ish) I read some graffiti on the stall of a loo at UWS. It’s a poem, unsigned (well, of course) and it resonated with me so much that I copied it down and know it off by heart. The content isn’t earth-shattering, just a nice set of visuals (for me and probably the student who wrote it).

Problem (sort of): I have Googled various parts of this simple piece and can’t find any reference to it. Anywhere. What I want to do is use it (maybe) for something that will be public via the www. I can reference it by the note I wrote on it back in 94 – that it was graffiti on the loo wall at UWS.
Is there anything else that I should do or am I worrying too much?

Does anyone else have any favourite graffiti? Any favourite words that make your little black hearts sing :P?

On wall on Pyrmont Bridge Road:
Arms for Afghanistan! (crossed out)
Legs for Tito!

On the end wall of the third story of terrace houses in Surry Hills
I LOVE YOU

A very long time ago I scrawled “I LOVE STEPHANE GRAPPELLI” on the door of a loo at Circular Quay. It was in response to all the other popular groups that were named in other scrawlings with declarations of love :P

>Is there anything else that I should do or am I worrying too much?

If it doesn’t appear to have been published, then attributing it to “Anon” is fine. If someone complains that it’s their own work you can always change things later.

Bubblecar said:

>Is there anything else that I should do or am I worrying too much?

If it doesn’t appear to have been published, then attributing it to “Anon” is fine. If someone complains that it’s their own work you can always change things later.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Thanks :)

I haven’t seen anything insightful on loo walls but at work we did have a sticker chicken which seems to have been recently removed.

Only toilet wall poem I’ve seen recently was:

If you’re a full-grown man with a full-grown rear,
You’ll need about 200 toilet rolls a year.
Ignore them when they say that’s far too many,
If you want to be clean after spending your penny.

Bubblecar said:

Only toilet wall poem I’ve seen recently was:

If you’re a full-grown man with a full-grown rear,
You’ll need about 200 toilet rolls a year.
Ignore them when they say that’s far too many,
If you want to be clean after spending your penny.

Where was this little ditty? ;)

kii said:

Bubblecar said:

Only toilet wall poem I’ve seen recently was:

If you’re a full-grown man with a full-grown rear,
You’ll need about 200 toilet rolls a year.
Ignore them when they say that’s far too many,
If you want to be clean after spending your penny.

Where was this little ditty? ;)

Staff toilet, at a guess.

Staff toilet, at a guess.
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Ooo…luxury. Wish we had a staff toilet at work :(

We do, but the public loos are surprisingly much cleaner.

Last week I was in the loo, and it was quite busy so there was a queue. Across from me was a little girl going to the toilet and her mum was helping her. Suddenly, we heard a “plop”, closely followed by the little girl singing, “da da da da, da DA!” Everyone cracked up and the poor mum must have been so embarrassed! She said quietly, “Honey, you don’t have to sing every time you poo.”

Back in the early 90’s I was at uni and saw

“my mum made me a homosexual”

in another script – “if I give he the wool, will she make me one too?”

her* of course

Knitted homosexuals are fine in winter, but a bit too heavy in the warmer months.

During the Vietnam era toilets were chock a block full of plays on the words wore war whore etc….. these words were juxtapositioned with the word fuck.
And in Auckland they often follwed a witty bon mot with the pun being mightier than the sword.

kii said:

A very long time ago I scrawled “I LOVE STEPHANE GRAPPELLI” on the door of a loo at Circular Quay. It was in response to all the other popular groups that were named in other scrawlings with declarations of love :P

One door at my uni was completely covered in band names. Then the bastard administration painted over it all!

Arts said:

Back in the early 90’s I was at uni and saw

“my mum made me a homosexual”

in another script – “if I give he the wool, will she make me one too?”

That goes back to the early 70s and perhaps beyond.

In the toilets near the Arts Faculty, there were invariably notices saying “Engineering degree, help yourself”. In the Engineering Faculty, reciprocal sentiments applied.

“Please flush hard – it needs to reach the cafeteria”. – Curtin Uni circa 1990.

party_pants said:

“Please flush hard – it needs to reach the cafeteria”. – Curtin Uni circa 1990.

In the cafeteria : All the water here has been passed by the management.

Here I sit, broken hearted.
Paid 10 cents and only farted.