none of that is real graffiti and just gives a bad name.

Nonetheless it is still graffiti (and it seemed pretty ‘real’ to me). I never claimed this was a celebration of the best the art form has to offer. Far from it!

That being the whole point and all…

Why a 1980s pencil case would be improved by adding a joke from the 1940s about rationing I can’t say.

The lid did slide off and could be used to rule straight lines in red biro. So it was still a good pencil case.

Well, mostly by his own account. It was more or less the only thing he had to say for himself. Rather pathetically, he spawned a few attempts at imitation by others with “funny” names and peculiar anatomical obsessions, but these thankfully never took off.

The grafitti in university toilet stalls was often pretensious, but occasionally very funny. I am sad to say that such grafitti as appears in the law library is not up to the standard of mid-90’s UCG.

a friend of mine has been compiling a collection of the crappest graffiti he can find around Cardiff. My favourite being ‘David williams is a small cok waka!’ (sic).

A most worthy project, and one I may try and replicate here. Thanks for the emailed pics by the way. I’ll shove them up on the next graffiti post.

kilroy has rather interesting origins I seem to remember

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here

A very interesting history indeed. Particularly enjoyed this bit:

There are many legends attached to the Kilroy graffiti. One states that Adolf Hitler believed that Kilroy was some kind of American super spy because the graffiti kept turning up in secure Nazi installations, presumably having been actually brought on captured Allied military equipment.

kilroy has rather interesting origins I seem to remember. Something to do with ship building.

just found this on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here

There was an epidemic of ‘Kilroy was here’ graffiti in the 1970’s. Nobody knew who Kilroy was. He seems to have gone somehere else…

There were also the ‘….rules OK!’graffiti. I remember ‘Dame Vera Lynn rules OK!’ sprayed on the plinth of the Archbishop Plunkett statue in Kildare Street. My favourite of this genre was the admittedly un-PC ‘lesdyxia rusel KO!’

Anything in English is of the “fuck the pigs” variety.

There was an article in the Guardian/CiF recently on this very topic which I can’t/am too lazy to find.
There were some nice examples in the comments section, including a latin translation of “beam me up scotty”

“what about sheep” has a ring of “will someone think of the children” about it, or am I wrong?