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Post by lesleysm2 on May 18, 2024 0:45:35 GMT
When I was at Middlesex Poly the director was a guy called Derek Ricketts who believed anyone who wanted to enrol should be allowed to (probably why they accepted me!) and he referred to this as his "open door policy"
A while later someone wrote on a door in the ladies "Ricketts for lavatory attendant!"
And someone wrote underneath "No way remember the "open door" policy"
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Post by andytake2 on May 18, 2024 7:59:10 GMT
A lot of these appeared in a Uni rag mag I saw many years, in there also were gems such as
Don't throw your fag butts in the loo
You know it isn't right
It makes them very soggy
And impossible to light
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Post by mick on May 18, 2024 8:09:28 GMT
You're over thinking this. It's at Euston Station and it's saying "HS2...it'll never happen"... I overthunk it so much I googled. The quote was the wrong way round anyway. Strewth, strewth and thrice strewth!!!
I too googled it and the link says that it was at Paddington station, and I find that very hard to believe. Here's why. Believe it or not, I had a daily commute from Birmingham (New Street) to Euston. A monthly season was £70 but that's by the by! I am 100% convinced that I saw that graffito on a daily basis. To compound my confusion, I reckon that I have arrived at Paddington no more than half a dozen times in the whole of my life.
I would not have bet much on me getting the quote the right way round but, as they say, I would have bet the ranch on it being Euston.
Mick
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Post by Chester PB on May 18, 2024 14:17:16 GMT
I have to say I never anticipated so many people here were in the habit of studying what has been written on the doors of public toilets. If one has not anticipated the need to take reading matter to the facilities, there are only the graffiti on the walls to read. The (very) few witty or funny examples are remembered and the predictable remainder immediately forgotten.
In more recent years the ubiquitous spray can has conquered all so verbal wit and creativity have been lost, although I have been reliably informed that it still manages to exist in the Classics faculties of some of the more academic universities. Has anybody ever seen the fabled 'Kilroivis hic erat' graffito? |
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Post by don on May 18, 2024 14:29:35 GMT
I looked up Kilroivis hic erat but it’s all Greek to me
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Post by willien on May 18, 2024 14:30:43 GMT
"I'd rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy".
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Post by spinno on May 18, 2024 15:28:44 GMT
The meek shall inherit the earth...if that's alright with the rest of you
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Post by spinno on May 18, 2024 15:29:53 GMT
Free (insert prisoner name)...inside every box of cornflakes
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Post by willien on May 18, 2024 15:29:54 GMT
nil illigitima carborundum
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Post by spinno on May 18, 2024 15:31:49 GMT
nil illigitima carborundum I try not to... |
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Post by spinno on May 18, 2024 15:35:27 GMT
One for the Latin scholars
Cave canem means beware!
Felis stulta doesn't care
In horto ambulat
In pace requiescat
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Post by Chester PB on May 20, 2024 15:52:53 GMT
nil illigitima carborundum Or perhaps 'Illegitimi non carborundum'? I suspect that neither of these can have direct translations into English, it's just the plural ending of the noun that may be wrong. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 20, 2024 23:07:05 GMT
A lot of these appeared in a Uni rag mag I saw many years, in there also were gems such as Don't throw your fag butts in the loo You know it isn't right It makes them very soggy And impossible to light Years ago in a pub in Ilford someone had stuck in each cubicle in the ladies (and Dave said in the gents) a neatly typed piece of card on the wall that looked fairly official and read "Please do not throw your cigarettes down the toilet as they block the beer taps" |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 20, 2024 23:09:45 GMT
When the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie came out there were posters all over the place with the Superman "S" and written under it
"You'll believe a man can fly"
Of course someone added an "L" and a "D" in the right places
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 20, 2024 23:12:49 GMT
Back in the 70's I read an article about graffiti on posters and they gave 2 examples:
"Jesus saves!"
And written underneath "He couldn't do it on my salary"
And a BA poster "Breakfast in London, lunch in Paris, dinner in Berlin"
And written underneath "And luggage in Athens"
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