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… by sharing photographs I took at the nerdiest urinal I’ve ever patronized, which only just happens to be down the hall from where I regularly teach. The first coincidence:
And the second:
I like to think this one’s meant for me, because if someone’s scribbling “BADWOLF” on the walls that means I must be the …
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For some reason the “I’m witty too” underneath BADWOLF tickled my fancy.
I’m just amused that students downvote bits on bathroom walls.
Oh, is that what is happening? I thought the arrows were to direct attention towards … er … features of interest.
Look, I’m pre-internet and a broad. What do I know about men’s toilets?
i’m simply intrigued by the fact that you think your students are writing things about you, on the walls of bathroom stalls. or, they are writing things about you, on the walls of bathroom stalls. either way, it’s sort of weird.
That’s the bathroom closest to where I teach both LOTR and Doctor Who, so I just assume it’s no coincidence. Granted, I haven’t done a systematic study of ALL campus bathrooms, so I can’t say for certain I’m not just being self-important.
if they are posting things about you on bathroom walls/stalls, you might want to consider leaving that aspect, of your affect on your students, off your CV. just a suggestion. lol
I wonder if that first one was written by someone upset with the stubbornness of their kidney stone.
I remember when I was 11, and we moved from Queens, NY City, to a town in Upstate NY, and I went to my first day of 6th Grade class at my new Elementary School.
I walked to school in Queens.
Here, I had to take a bus.
FSM, how I came to loathe those buses!
That first day, we had a “Home Room,” assigned by the first letter of the last name – something we didn’t have in Queens.
Finally, I was sent to my new classroom to meet my new teacher, and my new classmates.
I didn’t know anyone.
I was “The New Kid.”
And I was nervous.
And, being nervous, I had to go pee.
So, I asked my new teacher for a hall-pass to go to the bathroom, and he told me I didn’t need one in this school.
Hmm…
No hall-pass?
Strange…
Oy, something else that’s different!
Ok, so I go to the bathroom, and what do I see, but some graffiti above the urinal.
YAY!
“Thank you, Jesus,” I thought! At least something is the same.
But when I went to read the first one, I saw that the kid had spelled the 4-letter word for poop, as “s-h-i-t-t.’
“Shit,” I thought, “If the spell shit with two-t’s, then I’m in some really deep shit up here!”
But then I saw that all of the other obligatory boy’s bathroom curse-words were spelled correctly, and though, “OK, maybe it’s not so bad up here after all, and they’re not all morons.”
I made some joke about the different spelling to some of the other boys at recess, and immediately made some new friends, who laughed, and assured me that, properly spelled, even outside of NY City, “shit” is still spelled, “s-h-i-t.”
There’s no, ‘And he lived happily ever after…”
But at least I discovered that me and the kids in my new town had the same 4 letter-word vocabulary.
But they didn’t seem use those words anywhere near as often as I did!
So, I went from being “The New Kid,” to being “The New Kid Who Likes To Curse.”
Always leave a good first impression.
Can the Doctor have a beard? The only time I saw the Doctor with a beard was in the last episode of the first season with the Eleventh Doctor. There should be at least one bearded Doctor though.
if someone’s scribbling “BADWOLF” on the walls that means I must be the …
Daleks?
Actually that would make him the Dalek Emperor. Or Rose Tyler (which is what he would like you to believe). You tell me which one is more plausible. Let me give you a hint: it’s just a rumor but SEK has been known to mutter “exterminate” under his breath in a robotic voice as he passes those pesky kids on the basketball court near his apartment. Also, the reason no more students have been busted for having sex on the desk in his office isn’t for lack of trying. They’ve all been vaporized by his beam gun. And finally I ask, has anyone ever seen SEK climb stairs?
SEK is Rose Tyler? I’ll be in
my bunkthe holodeck.CSI:ISS Enterprise
I do not threaten, Captain.I merely state facts.
I did sort of mess that up. I remembered it as Rose warning the Doctor, but it’s actually a message to herself to remind herself to do what she’d just done. That said, it’s not like I’d mind being a companion.
Right, it’s a message to herself but I’m not sure I understand what you mean by: “to remind herself to do what she’d just done” or maybe it’s been too long since I’ve watched that season and I’ve forgotten it.
(That bit where she absorbs the power of the TARDIS and goes “I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence, and I divide them” bring tears to my eyes every time. What a great season that was.)
First, agreed about the quality.
Second, she was seeding her life with “Bad Wolf” to remind herself to save the Doctor from the Bad Wolf Corporation, which she’d just done. Unless I’m misremembering. Damn it, I’ll just have to watch it again later. Poor me.
Nice homage to “Momento.”
The first graffito is obviously in reference to the Spanish Civil War.
Or the French at Verdun. BTW, Major Kong wrote a moving article on visiting Verdun, on a different, inferior, orange blog.
“They shall not pass” (no pasaran) would be the Spanish Civil War reference. On most college campuses I expect the reference would be Fellowship of the Ring.
or to what is going to happen in all your classes if you have sex in the professor’s offic
The undergraduate dorms here are called “Middle Earth.” I’m just saying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Earth_Housing
Yeah, I thought no pasaran too. But that’s because the post says that the urinals are nerdy and I think of LOTR (the movies anyway) as pretty standard pop culture. FOTR came out 11 years ago when college kids now were maybe 8 or 10 years old, so they all saw it first run or at home within a year or two.
(In the book, Gandalf says “You cannot pass”).
and you see there how Peter Jackson ruined the movies
Three graffiti (in three different hands) observed in a dormitory men’s room stall, Aberdeen-Inverness Hall, University of California at Riverside, fall quarter 1970. I merely report:
“I killed her and fucked her and buried her where no one will ever find her. NO ONE!”
“You devil, you.”
“I found her! She’s STILL the best lay at UCR!”
“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
and tentement halls.”
At the University of California Santa Cruz the mens’s bathrooms (in a surprising number of buildings on campus) have various grout-related puns written between the tiles. I’ve always meant to take picture of them – if you want them, come and claim them!
pictures. “Family love Michael” moment there.
Wow: that’s been going on for a long time, then. I went to UCSC after UCR and I finally agreed that by brief tenure there had been a huge misunderstanding, and I recall the same thing (“The Grout Gatsby,” “Sometimes a Grout Notion,” “Grout Expectations”) from the early to mid seventies. This is obscurely gratifying.
I still remember this from the one semester I spent at Bard. Seen on the library bathroom wall:
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
Some say bad poets will go first
Wouldn’t that be nice?
(Context applied by me: Bard seems to foster many, many sensitive undergrad poets.)
“Jesus Saves!”
“But Gretzky gets the rebound! He shoots! He scores!”
(In 2 different hands)
Moses invests.
(Seen on wall as reply to the first, probably somewhere else.)
But only Buddha pays dividends.
Fat profit.
The bathroom art at my high school was almost exclusively phallic.
At Bryn Mawr in the 70s, it was parodies of Richard Brautigan poems, interspersed with juvenile gibes at the inevitable boyfriends using the bathrooms in the women’s dorms (“we aim to please – you aim too, please!”). I was greatly disappointed to see nothing but clean fresh paint when I visited a few years ago.
My favorite still is:
If you sprinkle
When you tinkle
Be a sweetie
And wipe the seatie
UC Davis, women’s, in the late 1970s. Good advice, I’ve always thought.
This was also during a drought, so there were exhortations not to flush (as often) from TPTB. There was a discussion on one of the stall walls about this, with one writer maintaining that urine is sterile, so no worries, followed by another asking how she thought UIs were diagnosed?