Bathroom Graffiti as Literature

[Dimocritus]

Most writings in bathroom stalls remain in the realm of sophomoric humor and purposeless nonsense. Although, every now and again, you find a golden nugget, a diamond in the roughage if you would. These bits of insightful (and often hilarious) scribble are all the more potent considering that they are almost completely unexpected. My favorite example of this is the following quote from a McDonalds bathroom:

Any asshole can piss on the floor. Be a hero and shit on the ceiling.

So, ITT, we list all the would-be-literary-masterfeces of the John Keats of the John. So quit stalling and relieve yourself of what you've seen.

[Golden Applesauce]

Yeah, I've seen that one before.  Bathroom graffiti  would be better, I think, it it were original more often.

Anyway,

Here I sit
brokenhearted
Tried to shit
but only farted

[Cramulus]

IN CONSTIPATION
THERE IS TRUTH

[Eater of Clowns]

There's a Borders in Boston near the central branch of the Boston Public Library that has a bunch of pun graffiti on the second floor.

It's all written in the grout between tiles on the wall and reads such as:

Grout Expectations
The Grout Gatsby
In Grout We Trust
etc.

[Dimocritus]

There's a Borders in Boston near the central branch of the Boston Public Library that has a bunch of pun graffiti on the second floor.

It's all written in the grout between tiles on the wall and reads such as:

Grout Expectations
The Grout Gatsby
In Grout We Trust
etc.

That seems a bit grout-uitous...

[Cramulus]

those are some groutesque puns

[Dimocritus]

Let's not say anything we might re-grout...

Yeah, that was pretty terrible.

Whatever, let's potty like it were 1999.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

QUIT IT.

[Eater of Clowns]

QUIT IT.

Don't be such a groutch.

[MMIX]

"He'll come in a minute", she said, stirring her coffee with the other hand."

Oxford student pub ladies loo many years ago




edited for punctuation fail - yes it DOES fucking matter . . . 

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

There is a stall in one of the Yale libraries where someone went in and proofread all the other graffiti. I don't know if that counts, but it made me lol.

[Dimocritus]

There is a stall in one of the Yale libraries where someone went in and proofread all the other graffiti. I don't know if that counts, but it made me lol.

That's great, I might steal that bit.

[BigBadCalla]

I was taking a crap in a Borders the other day.  Most of the wall was taken up by a big multi-person religious debate.  Some, of course, were "Jesus is your only path to salvation, accept him or burn in hell!" followed by "There's no evidence, bad things have been done in the name of religion, etc."  It was probably the biggest ongoing debate I've seen in a bathroom stall.

Also hidden among these paragraphs was "Heisenberg may have shit here."  I may have laughed out loud at that one.

[bob-o]

Also hidden among these paragraphs was "Heisenberg may have shit here."  I may have laughed out loud at that one.

that took me a second but it is hilarious!

unfortunately i've only seen childish shit in the bathrooms i've been in, like "for a good time call..."

bob-o

[dontblameyoko]

I was taking a crap in a Borders the other day.  Most of the wall was taken up by a big multi-person religious debate.  Some, of course, were "Jesus is your only path to salvation, accept him or burn in hell!" followed by "There's no evidence, bad things have been done in the name of religion, etc."  It was probably the biggest ongoing debate I've seen in a bathroom stall.

Also hidden among these paragraphs was "Heisenberg may have shit here."  I may have laughed out loud at that one.

I remember seeing a debate/flamewar on a bathroom stall door at the University of Tennessee in 2000.