Graffiti, a small list.There used to be a small hairdressers shop near the bottom of the high street here in Canterbury. Being as it's an old town many of the quaint little shops have a first floor that you can touch from street level if you're
anything over 5'6'. This means that the shop's signwriting is often handily accessible. This particular shop had chosen to call itself 'FLICKERS', written in very angular black block capitals on a white background. Enter six footer (furtively, in the dead of night) with a roll of black insulating tape and by the simple expedient of joining the bottom of the L to the bottom of the I we have 'FUCKERS', an all round improvement I'm sure you'll agree. It took them a couple of weeks to notice the first time...
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(anything over 5'6'. This means that the shop's signwriting is often handily accessible. This particular shop had chosen to call itself 'FLICKERS', written in very angular black block capitals on a white background. Enter six footer (furtively, in the dead of night) with a roll of black insulating tape and by the simple expedient of joining the bottom of the L to the bottom of the I we have 'FUCKERS', an all round improvement I'm sure you'll agree. It took them a couple of weeks to notice the first time...
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That was supposed to be a list...Was very impressed with an artic trailer I saw on the M6 many years ago. It had "Christian Salvesen" written on it in very big letters. On one side. Inevitably someone had altered the other side to read "Christ Saves." Must've taken ages as the letters were each a good two foot square.
One for the older kids amongst you who remember their science lessons. We were told regularly that "nature abhors a vacuum." I had completely forgotten until I met someone who had it elegantly signwritten across the front of his hoover.
A now-demolished wall en route Paddington station used to bear the marvellous legend:
'Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere'.
The oldest Graffiti I have ever seen is at Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire. Prisoners that were kept there used to scratch their names into the stonework. I think the noldest one that they've verified is from a bout 1640, cool.
(One for the older kids amongst you who remember their science lessons. We were told regularly that "nature abhors a vacuum." I had completely forgotten until I met someone who had it elegantly signwritten across the front of his hoover.
A now-demolished wall en route Paddington station used to bear the marvellous legend:
'Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere'.
The oldest Graffiti I have ever seen is at Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire. Prisoners that were kept there used to scratch their names into the stonework. I think the noldest one that they've verified is from a bout 1640, cool.
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