Original Keith Haring graffiti in subway stations and handball courts on the upper east side of Manhattan, when I was in high school in the '80's.

A guy in my high school class was a graffiti artist whose tag can still be found around the city many years later... he died falling off the Brooklyn Bridge trying to graffiti a hard-to-reach spot on there. He used to do beautiful murals on the high school courtyard, which somehow the admin didn't have a proper appreciation for. So they'd call in a "Graffiti busters" truck to wipe it off, and he'd sneak around and graffiti the side of the truck

death scrod

I do not like graffiti.

Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew. (come on, somebody knows this reference, right?)

The stuff I've seen in Germany.

Scrawled in big red angry letters: I FUDGEED YOUR MOTHER!
Written neatly in smaller blue letters: Go home Dad, you're drunk.

There is a tattoo artist who does physical graffiti. He started doing real graffiti as a kid in Da Bronx and now does tats. His art really draws me in.

His name is Seen.

It wasn't just the graffiti, it was the context in which I saw it: A very prominent wall near Robson & Thurlow, circa 1985, yuppie businessman type is walking by, sees it about the same time I do, sort of does a double take. The graffiti read:"If voting could change the system it would be outlawed"

2nd favourite: One person wrote:"FREE SOVIET JEWS" underneath someone else wrote: "inside specially marked packages of Kellog's Rice Krispies"

Not something I have seen myself but heard a description of and have been very tempted to do: inside a public library, lots of photocopies taped to shelves, big letters, "Free the Bound Periodicals!"

The "Surrender Dorothy" painted on an overpass on the beltway in DC. Off in the distance across the forest a Mormon tabernacle (one of two outside Salt Lake City) that looks like the Emerald City is visible. The other tabernacle is being constructed in Lexington, MA and I find myself wanting to put the same graffiti on one of the overpasses over Route 2 just as you come up the hill from Alewife & Arlington.

jonathan: they painted over that graffiti , although you can still pretty much make out what it says.
And there are actually lots of Mormon temples (or tabernacles--same thing) outside of Salt Lake city--San Diego, LA, and San Francisco all have them too.

Thanks for the correction, I meant on the eastern seaboard. A friend from Lexington had told me about it, the town has tried really hard to block the Mormons at every turn.

North-west of Washington D.C., just outside of the beltway (rt 495, I think), there is a gigantic semi-modern cathedralish building visible from the highway. At night, it is lit up from the outside and has this ghostly green hue. Very creepy and a little weird.

Heading westbound on the beltway, there is a railroad bridge that you go under just after you catch sight of this apparition. Someone regularly spraypaints the legend

SURRENDER DOROTHY

on the side of this bridge. I have seen it once, and I have seen the results of the police cleanup crew several times.

I'm not gonna change my entry because I like my description, but thanks Jonathan for verifying (and identifying) it. I am told that the graffiti comes and goes, as different groups tackle the challenge and the police rush to get rid of it.

Actually, now I remember one from years ago, at the rt 290 eastbound on-ramp at exit 18 in Worcester, MA. Someone wrote

"Do you know how much I love you, goofy? I love you more than..."

Then in a different color/hand, someone added: "SPAM".

That has since been erased but I actually thought it would be funny to sneak out one night and put it back. Boy, would that confuse the original author(s)...

Here's a quick sketch... brilliant no?

I can't believe no one has gotten my reference! I was sure someone would. Don't any of you people watch crappy old Kim Catrall movies?

Here's a pic of the thing being lampooned by the Surrender Dorothy graffiti (which is my favorite, too):

Was it from "Porky's"?

bill: I forgot Kim Catrall was in Porky's. No, that's not it. Think Timothy Hutton. More than that, think graffiti!

ILJ: Turk 184.

phi, thanks for that picture. I think it's really cool that they built something like that. I think I want to be a Mormon now.

Brian:...oh, you're SO CLOSE!!! It's Turk 182.

ILJ: Right! I suppose you could forgive me on the grounds that I saw the movie ONCE, way back in 1996?

Brian:... actually you saw it in 1994.

On a castle wall in france. A preserved (glass plate over it) series of scratchings that a tour pamphlet claimed was "graffiti" scratched into the wall by crusade-era soldiers. It supposedly is all about God, which i thought was really funny for graffiti.

robin -- didn't it say "Romans go home?" (from "Life of Brian", which I loved.)

A pink flamingo on the side of a dumpster.

Doctors= Legalised Drug Pushers

On the front of the Medical School that I studied in. It must have been done many years ago, and they did such a bad job of trying to remove it that it's still very very obvious.

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I am glad Asians are about