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# this reminds me of alan partridge
always used a gag from dennis norden's (i think) book of humorous graffiti to start a speech

[edit] on a fence overlooking the M40 (just before Junction 1 westbound), somebody has painted 'why do i do this everyday?', which is certainly the most apt graffiti i've ever seen, since it's my route home from work
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 13:12, archived)
# demotivation graffiti
what a good idea
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 13:17, archived)
# I saw that the other day coming back from Oxford.
And there's various other bits of multicoloured stuff too small to read as you zip past.
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 13:20, archived)
# one of them says
"i am the king* of peas" *or possibly god, which is nice
(I helped save b3ta! atomboy, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 13:23, archived)
# I pass that quite often.
Originally it was just the "why do I do this..." but it has been added to over the past year or so to the point that it has lost some of its original impact.

It's still quite impressive though.

The only time you can read all of it is when the traffic for the M25 is backed all the way up and you can crawl past it.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 14:50, archived)
# that one alwayus makes me laugh..
..on the southbound M40 right?
(Scribble, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 9:45, archived)
# Yeah I saw that, but on the M25,...
Sat in a traffic jam looking at that,.. 3 months later I'd quit my job and moved 250 miles away from London :)
(HoTWire, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 14:07, archived)
# damn right
I head up and down the M40 every day and see that message... it really is depressing, and 100% of accurate
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 14:33, archived)
# Similar,
On bridge over motorway into town, forget where, HUGE letters - "Good morning lemmings"
(mr pete, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 16:07, archived)
# You mean this?
(I helped save b3ta! Zak Canard remembers this place, vaguely, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 17:59, archived)
# That's the one
Classic
(mr pete, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 16:43, archived)
# LOL!
That is an absolute f**king classic!
(Hektor, Wed 5 Nov 2003, 21:48, archived)
# Same again, back when all this were trees
Good
Morning
Lemmings
in the early 1980's on successive pillars coming off the M4 at Hammersmith
(sad b'stard, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 9:48, archived)
# Used to be spread over
three consecutive bridges on the M3.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 9:51, archived)
# This is not demotivational as such
but it is fucking funny.

www.banksy.co.uk

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(mr pete, Thu 6 Nov 2003, 12:58, archived)
# Banksy is superb...
Having lived in Bristol over the past five years I'm no stranger to his work. If you take a stroll around the streets of St.Pauls, Kingsdown, Cotham etc. you can see many examples of his work.
My favourite is the large one on Gloucester Road showing the teddy bear throwing a molotov cocktail at a group of police with riot shields.
Has anyone seen that? I wish I could post up a copy.
(trollbite, Thu 6 Nov 2003, 13:47, archived)
# yeah
I walk past it every time I go into the centre, the caption is "the mild mild west", or somesuch...
(matt'twam'asi, Thu 6 Nov 2003, 13:53, archived)
# Currently
there's an advert for something (can't remember what, so it can't be a very good advert) that has a picture of Jaime Rednapp standing next to a fat bloke wearing a shirt saying "I'm Jaimie Rednapp".
Someone near me has written on Jaime: "I'm a Cunt"
(I helped save b3ta! Weetobix, Mon 3 Nov 2003, 16:29, archived)
# similarly
on a fly poster for the last holly valance record someone had written over her cleavage, "I am a dirty bitch, I fuck Gypos"
(I helped save b3ta! Mingus wonders where all the time went, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 17:20, archived)
# Remember Leah Betts?
There was a poster in Worcester with her on a life support machine. It said "Leah died after taking one tablet of extacy."
Underneath somebody wrote a very very big "LIGHTWEIGHT"
(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 20:34, archived)
# You mean
Jaime Redknapp, the Mexican defender?
(Sybil 'n' Tess, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 17:38, archived)
# In Nelson, Lancashire
There is a railway bridge in the centre, and someone had put 7 pieces of paper along it so it reads 'NIPPLES'.

I thought that was genius. Made me larf. But then someone changed it to the ever present GOURANGA.

Which never fails to remind me of Lenny Henry. "GOURANGA MY FRIEND. AOOOWA AOOOWA"
(V3lvetPresley, Tue 4 Nov 2003, 12:53, archived)
# in a similar vein
spotted on a roadsign near a distinctly middle class area of Reading: "fat nobodys in company cars". Cutting.
(breadtroll, Wed 5 Nov 2003, 13:20, archived)
# it's
Nigel Rees book of graffiti.

He published at least three volumes of it not including best ofs.

And in the second volume, there was one bit that said, "If Nigel Rees uses this, I hope I get paid this time."
(I helped save b3ta! fishsticks, Wed 5 Nov 2003, 17:29, archived)
# Oxford is strange
I know of another wall sized piece of thought provoking intellectual vanadlism in Oxford. Simply says "Life is not a paragraph". I dont understand what they are going on about or why Oxford seems to attract a better class of vandal, still makes you think!!!

If its not a paragraph what is it?
(Lord Turkey Boy the First The Real Turkey Boy, Thu 6 Nov 2003, 10:37, archived)
# silly fool
It's a line from an ee cummings poem.

(punch, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 1:40, archived)
# Heh!
You said 'cummings'.
(Bob Hopelessness, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 13:09, archived)