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04 December 2006
What's the best thing you've ever seen...→[More:]...written on a bathroom stall wall? I'll go first: "A skinny ass won't make your personality good"
jan, I'm not trying to be a snark here, but why was it astonishing that people got a reference to what's one of the most beloved and popular (overrated?) films in history? Am I missing something?
Slightly off topic, but on my first day in NYC, when I got to the front door of my apartment, someone had written FUCK YOU SLUTS in permanent market. I felt so welcomed.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before somewhere, but my, um, alma mater briefly had a condom machine in the mens' room. At the top was a line drawing of a couple in bed together, to which cartoon word bubbles had been added, like so:
Her: "Fuck me! You beast!!"
Him: "What? With my bare dick?! No way!"
From there, an arrow to the dispensing slot at the bottom of the machine had been added, along with this helpful consumer advice: "Insert baby for full refund".
This offer of a refund has always made me wonder if I wasn't witness to Clark Howard's Lost Weekend.
I still wake up at night thinking that I might know more about what it means, but I can never remember what Rah-Rah-Rasputin was telling me in my dream.
I can't remember any one thing, but in the old Dubliner Pub in my home town, the ladies room was one of those one-seat tiny rooms. All over the walls were written all sorts of alcohol-induces moments of ideaology. Or ramblings. Or song lyrics. Some were actually thought provoking. I always wished I'd taken pictures or copied them down.
Not quite written on a stall wall, but some year in the late 70s -- 1978 maybe? was International Women's Year, and there were theme buttons and stickers all over the place with slogans that said WHY NOT? on them.
I was visiting my dad's office. The women's room there had been converted from a men's, and there was a urinal along the wall, blocked off with a sign that said DO NOT USE.
Someone had stuck one of those WHY NOT? buttons right under it.
in the women's washroom of an Edmonton biker/blues bar, someone had written, "My mom made me a lesbian." Underneath, someone else had added, "If I bought her the wool, would she make me one too?"
At a punk bar I used to frequent, my friend (a busser/bouncer/general dogsbody) came by and told me that someone had written "I fucked your mother" on the men's room wall, and he was actually offended enough that he felt compelled to clean it off. By the time he got back with the cleaning accoutrements someone had written underneath, "Go home, Dad. You're drunk." He left it up.
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