Type your bathroom graffiti quote. Then, write a story about it. What led the writer to write that passage/graffiti? Who is the writer? Try to imagine a series of threads that come together to create this small social/political/emotional statement.
Remember, you will refrain from offensive language/content.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" Ghandi.
ReplyDeleteI envision a frustrated spiritual person (hopefully female since it was in a female stall) that has had it up to her ears with people that constantly want to complain about life. Too often people want to complain but never want to be the change to inspire others. I think by her writing this on the stall... it was her reminder and daily affirmation to others. Stop complaining already and change the world in a way that only you can!
"I just flushed my ethos."
ReplyDeleteAfter a long day in English 151 and learning about ethos, logos, and pathos, Brandon couldn't stand the class any longer. He went to the bathroom and flushed his ethos. Brandon then scribbled some graffiti on the door letting out his frustration. When Brandon got back to class, the professor asked the class for their paragraphs on ethos, logos, and pathos. Brandon couldn't hand in his ethos paragraph because he flushed it down the toilet. He looked at his professor and told him to check the bathroom for his. After his smart remark, Brandon was dismissed from class.
"Don't worry about wiping"
ReplyDeleteThe writer wrote this because I think that he was trying to be funny but also trying to be a little rebel in telling people what to do. In my opinion it was not funny and just makes the person look like an idiot. This was not one of the best I saw but all the others were taken. I think the writer is a small kid who loves playing video games and in between classes he thought he would funny and write something in the bathroom. It failed buddy, try something else.
"Googling google will blow your mind!"
ReplyDeleteWell, the story behind this quote is obviously that someone googled "google". They were so amazed by the results that came up they decided to tell everyone else to do it too! This most likely happened one night during exam week of fall quarter. They were so tired of studying for all their exams that they got bored and decided to google random things. After approximately 13 prior google searches they decided to google "google". What came up they just couldnt believe. There were so many different google websites Jim, the googler, was flabbergasted. All in all, the writer, Jim, is just another student from OU who got tired of studying and googled random things. Go figure.
"I found Jesus With Someone Else"
ReplyDeleteWhile wondering through the bathroom with 10 other men, crammed in a stall with them all, I found this quote. Above this quote was, "I called on Jesus, but he never answered" and another one that said, "God is Dead". I believe that this quote that I found was in response to those two quotes. I feel that this person, while taking a poop wanted people to know that, in fact, he did find Jesus and is a happier person because of it. I believe the writer was a christian, trying to spread the word of christianity throughout the vulgar phrases on the bathroom stall door. I like this person! We need a little morality in the world and on a liberal arts campus like this, it is needed DESPERATELY!
The quote i found said, " XBOX>PS3 for sure!"
ReplyDeleteLast year for Christmas Josh got a PS3 from his parents. Josh was so excited. He plugged it in to his TV and called his friends to play games on his playstation before he goes back to school. When they arrived they quickly went to play the game but hey couldnt get online to play. Try after try and they couldnt get it to work. So he brushed it off. When he left to go back to Ohio University he brought his PS3. When he arrived at his room, he decided he want to play online. He still couldnt get on. he was so frustrated that he went to GameStop and sold his console for an Xbox. When he got to his room he finally got online. He told everyone in ms. Mudd's English class that Xbox is the best. He then asked to go to the bathroom and with his pen wrote, "Xbox>PS3 for sure!"
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"- Ghandi
ReplyDeleteSeeing this quote I thought of a girl having a really frustrated day. She must have been having a bad day and then looked over to the bright side and realized she has to do something differently in seeing a better result. This girl could of been annoyed about a class grade or her friends. She then finally realized she has to be the one to act out and change herself to be able to see better results in her life and the world around her.
Put gum in the trash degenerate fucks!
ReplyDelete"Put gum in the trash degenerate fucks!" was wrote by a pissed off janitor. The janitor at hand was Will Hunting and he had been a custodian at Ellis Hall for 22 years and loved his job. There was one redundant problem day after day though. For some reason college males would always find it a good time to throw their gum away while pissing in the same urinal every day. Will did not take to kindly to this so finally after 16 years of it, because gum wasn't legal in ohio for the first 6 years of his career, he wrote a message on the wall in black sharpie reading "put your gum in the trash degenerate fucks!" Stereotypically, people are going to think janitors are working class blue colar workers that have no room to be calling anyone degenerates. Despite this stereotype, Will Hunting he was one of the smartest people at Ohio University and would find himself always revising students english papers that they left and then giving them back and the students would always get A's. After news spread of his rhetorical marvels and that it had been him who wrote the message in the bathroom, gum was found in the urinal for Will Hunting nevermore.
"I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
ReplyDeleteAlthough this person didn't make up this quote and they got it from another person, its obviously how they felt at the time. At the time she was probably just getting over something that had been a problem in her life. It could of possibly been a break up that she has been sad over for awhile and now she is realizing that she has a lot going for her in life and he doesn't matter anymore. In our lives we are going to have many problems and be upset many times, but life is still going on and the upset won't last forever. Its normal to be in a bad mood after something doesn't go your way, but try and remember that soon everything will be okay and get better.
"back off bitch, Brian is mine." the author of this quote was a girl commenting on another quote that said "I <3 Brian." There is graffiti all over the walls talking about a guy named Brian Elliot and apparently girls love him because they were all fighting over him in the bathroom. I personally don't know him but I think I can assume he is a hot guy that goes to OU. He must have done something pretty great to be bathroom stall material though. Plus, he has girls lining up for him. Maybe I should write my name down . . . I think these statements in the bathroom are social connections between people, especially with Brian. I bet these girls love to go in the stall and see who else has commented on their comments. They all secretly wonder who the other mysterious girls are, but still want Brian Elliot to be theirs. I would be very interested to put these girls in a room together and see if they get along or try and pull each other's hair out. Girls are crazy when it comes to guys and clearly these girls are claiming territory. I wonder if Brian knows he's as hot as these girls say he is.
ReplyDelete"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."
ReplyDeleteA girl has been through everything, dealing with heartbreak over and over again. The night before she inscribed on the bathroom stalls, she broke her boyfriend of 6 months who she loved but had been abusing her so badly emotionally. She did not think she could go through with it but she did. When he called back and begged for her to forgive him she would not answer and would not take him back. She said to herself, "I need to be strong." The next day, after thinking about her decision all day, she realized how hard it was going to be when she was going to miss him all the time but how worth it will be in the end. She realized she had it in her all along to be strong and independent and to love herself when others wouldn't. So after her English class, she went to the bathroom and cried. She cried for all she had lost and all she had gained. She wanted people to know, all those other girls who had cried about stupid boys in the bathroom stall that you can be strong and that they weren't alone. She hoped for all that who were going through what she had gone through they could read that quote and be inspired to take control of their own lives and realize they have the strength to face love at its worse and be able to overcome the obstacles love throws your way.
"Bong rips for Jesus"
ReplyDeleteOne day while at the import house on Court Street, John Smith was looking at some nice "tobacco" bongs and pipes that the store had for sale and had blatantly put signs in front of saying "for tobacco use only" in case anyone were to contact authorities. then John looked up and saw a strictly religious old woman yelling at the clerk of the store saying that "this store and others like it are the reason the whole country is going to hell and it is all the work of the devil." Now when John heard this he found it to be preposterous. In his mind he thought Jesus would be a pretty cool guy and not be concerned if people got high since he did turn water in to wine. So with this thought in mind John went all over campus, including the Ellis Building writing "bong rips 4 Jesus" anywhere he went, including the public restrooms. John did this with protecting his free speech in mind and to prove that old lady at Import House wrong.
"if your flying solo, at least your flying free"
ReplyDeleteTracy had a terrible day after arguing on the phone with her ex boyfriend for hours before class. They broke up after he found out she was going to go to Ohio University and not the school of his choice. She explained that the school had the best opportunities for her and she didn't want to go far away from her family. She wanted to be with him but instead of crying and dwelling on the past, she went into the bathroom after english class and wrote this inspiring quote on the stall in order to inspire girls to think about what they want before they think about what other people want from them. Think whats right for you before you do what someone else wants you to.
"Life ends, love doesn't."
ReplyDeleteI believe that whoever wrote this did so because whoever she loved, whether it be a parent, a significant other, or a friend, had passed away. For them to be writing this, it means that she believes even when a life has ended and that person is no longer here on earth, that does not technically mean the love you had for that person has died too. Just because a person has passed away doesn't mean that you have to or should stop loving them even though they aren't physically here. I believe that whoever wrote this is just an ordinary college student who has had someone she loved die, whether it be recently or in the past, and she is still dealing with the love she feels for them even though they aren't here.
"If energy and mass are equivalent, why are fat people so slow?"
ReplyDeleteWell I think that the author of this passage was confused by the information his physics professor had given him. Incidentally, his professor was fat, and when he went to the bathroom to take a poop he began to ponder the subject even more. Finally, he asked himself the question: "if energy and mass are equivalent, why are fat people so slow?" this guy couldn't figure out this riddle of riddles so he turned to desperation. In a last ditch effort to figure it out he took out his lucky pen and posed the question in the form of graffiti on the stall in front of him. The next day he checked the stall and to his surprise there was no answer. As I looked at the stall today there was still no answer. Why didn't anybody answer you ask? Maybe it was one of those question that nobody knew the answer to, or the response wouldn't fit on the stall because the author of this quote didn't leave adequate space under his proposed question. me? I just don't think anybody cared.
Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. The most extraordinary things exist where you least expect it. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.-Ronald Dahl
ReplyDeleteWhen you look around you, you always wanted to be that princess that always gets saved from the evil guy. Some wanted to be Belle or Cinderlla, others wanted to be Snow White or Jasmine. I personally wanted to be like Pocahontas. She has the beautiful life that nobody can really have in the world. She saves the tribe, and goes against her family (somewhat). Thats how I wished my life was, until it was like that. My life actually turned that way when I was about five years old. If you remember how the movie is, my story is the exact same way. It is awful and terrible. I wish my mom can come back, my dad can trust me and the man would leave. It is the worst case of awful things that have happened to me.
"We can't have war without ASSHOLES like you!"
ReplyDeleteThe person who wrote this was obviously a vietnam veteran visiting OU to give presentations on anti-war issues. In the middle of his speech he started to have a flashback so he decided to dismiss himself front he stage and go get alone time in the bathroom. There was another man in the bathroom washing his hand so he didn't want to just yell about how pissed he was so he decided to write his feelings on the wall. This is why the "ASSHOLE" is in capital letters and everything else is in lowercase. He was very angry after his random graffiti work he decided to leave OU and go join a reenactment group that puts the war in a play setting. This was good because he could get all of his anger out in a good way rather than abusing school bathrooms.
"I awoke in the night, drenched in sweat of one million terrified brothers. I asked him 'father, what are these terrible screams?' and he replied to me...'these are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots. You see, tomorrow is the harvest day...to them it is the holocaust'."
ReplyDeleteThis quote was written by someone who likes to think deep while disposing of bodily waste. He lives next to someone who grows carrots. Every harvest eve, he wakes up in a cold sweat to the cries of these carrots. They dont want to be eaten. They want to live. He feels obligated to help them.