17 September 2001
Submitted by eve on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 10:24am. Graffiti
"Why is there never anything interesting written here?"
"Because we're not English majors, we're too busy being math eggheads."
"Better question -- why is Evans the only place with left handed desks? Even better question: When is Bob Ross the inspirational painter going to run for president?"
"When he comes back to life?"
"But until then we should fill the world with happy little trees."
"Plastic trees?"
--Numerous entries written on the wall of the women's restroom in Evans Hall
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Posted by Anne Onymous on Tue, 10/23/2001 - 1:39pm.
Archived comment by Arlene:
Graffiti in women's bathrooms come in 2 major varieties "X + Y forever" & similar comments (ie "Jane Doe is a slut") & interesting commentary on men, science & philosophy. Alas, there is all too little of the latter. It depends on where the bathroom is located.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Mon, 10/01/2001 - 5:06am.
Archived comment by Gus:
Okay, quick question. Is this general for ladies toilet graffiti? I mean, it's nice, and as a guy, I'd like to know, as all I ever get to read in the toilets is about how some brainless bigot wants to kill all the homosexuals, or that various football teams are both loved and hated.

Although at university we did have an interesting regional speciality where working-class (yeah, right) students with a chip on their shoulder and middle-class home-counties children (known as sloanes) with daddy's own brand of conservative thought engaged in futile battles to determine who was better. I have to say I once deliberately took a pen in to add my views. Rather like I have done here.

Ooh, this is just like civilised toilet graffiti.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 09/28/2001 - 7:55pm.
Archived comment by Forkboy, Spuds, kapeh:
"But until then we should fill the world with happy little trees."
"Plastic trees?"
Well if its acrylic paint...

Oh how i loved watching him as a little girl...[ you gotta love a guy with a red afro ]

My BF carries a pen and permanent marker in his pocket.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 09/28/2001 - 12:49pm.
Archived comment by Emily:
....anyhow, back to Bob Ross...I'm wondering if anyone remembers his epileptic squirrel? Sad and fascinating all at the same time...
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 09/28/2001 - 8:36am.
Archived comment by Jon:
Sorry, I'm just selfish that way.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 09/28/2001 - 8:11am.
Archived comment by umrguy:
Cool points (only a few, though, we've got way too many DA readers around here [not that that's a bad thing, mind you] for that to be a hard one) to daen.

And Jon, that wasn't necessarily directed at you, but at those who didn't know what it meant.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 09/28/2001 - 6:51am.
Archived comment by Jon:
I knew what it was, you big silly! My father was an engineer a while ago.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 7:42pm.
Archived comment by daen:
Zaphod, to Waiter, at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Cool points?
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 1:36pm.
Archived comment by umrguy:
And here at Rolla, it's called the ECE building: Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 1:33pm.
Archived comment by umrguy:
EE = Electrical Engineering.

"Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 12:12pm.
Archived comment by Jon:
Department for Scream Research.
"What are you majoring in?"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Ah, Scream Research. I *was* wondering why you were wearing earplugs."
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 11:02am.
Archived comment by fair_n-hite_451:
EE dept.?

Eclectic Engineering?
Egalitarian English?
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 9:11am.
Archived comment by Ben:
The EE building at Clemson was a very attractive old brick building. Then, if you looked up just below the rain gutters, you realized that it was lined the entire way around with grotesque contorted faces which looked to be in some deal of pain. I thought that was quite fitting for the EE department.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 7:56am.
Archived comment by Jon:
Absolvo te. And that's no Papal Bull!
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 7:08am.
Archived comment by alex:
Oh no! I posted in the wrong place! I suck. Sorry.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 7:06am.
Archived comment by alex:
My ex-boyfriend has the "I read your email" as a bumper sticker.
But he does, you know. He was a sysadmin.
It's good to remember that the IS at your company does, in fact, read your email.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 6:08am.
Archived comment by Eagle:
Wendi - I think the lack of windows in the buildings is the entire point. It is kind of like the lack of windows in casinos. If you don't have a window (or any clocks for that matter), you have no concept of time. You don't realize that you just spent 8-10 hours of your life locked in the building. Maybe you'll study harder, or work longer.

AND - it keeps you from gazing outside, realizing it is a beautiful day, and wishing you were anywhere but there.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 5:53am.
Archived comment by David:
Not to, um, comment on the quote or anything, but the Bob Ross as President thing has been done.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 8:52pm.
Archived comment by Lea:
Hmm. I had a English class in an engineering-and-PE building (small college) once. Just for a little while, though. They decided we didn't have enough elbow-room, and so moved us to a room exactly as small. :)
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 7:52pm.
Archived comment by dave:
Nighthawk, did you ever consider that perhaps that _was_ the psych test?
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 7:27pm.
Archived comment by Nighthawk:
Wendi- Ugh, no windows in the entire building? Hmmm, maybe it was built for vampire students...

There are some windowless rooms in Uris, because the inside of the building is a freakin' maze..I was supposed to go there last week to be a test subject in a Psych experiment, and I spent half an hour wandering the halls of the second floor trying to find room 265 before I gave up. There are way too many random turns, and hallways that look like dead ends but aren't, and stairs that shouldn't be there. I wonder who designed the building, and what he/she was smoking at the time.

Matt- I was surprised to have Psych classes in the Psych building too...especially since all my English classes (and a History class) last year were in the Chem building. I've concluded that logic does not exist within the boundaries of an American university. We're all mad here.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 3:36pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
Mike, "Fake Plastic Trees" was a minor hit for Radiohead, I think on their album "The Bends." There's an acoustic version of it on the Clueless movie soundtrack.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 2:59pm.
Archived comment by Mike:
Fake plastic trees?
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:55pm.
Archived comment by WendiWolf:
Nighthawk- That does sound hideous, but at least it has windows!! The science building at my college had NO windows when I was there. Ok, there was a glass entranceway and the Botany lab had three very small ones, but that doesn't count. Now that I've been out of there for 3 years, they are redoing the building and giving it windows, and even a courtyard! Those future bio, chem, physics and psych majors have NO idea of how lucky they are. I spent many a long day in that building, never sure if I'd be exiting into rain or not. That and it was fun when I'd get to the building in the dark and leave in the dark. That really messes with your brain after a while...
Heck, for that matter, I'd like a window in my area of the office... Or even the illusion of one...
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:45pm.
Archived comment by Jeremiah:
There's a Bob Ross buddy icon somewhere on ballericons.com. I have it. But it doesn't say anything about his squirrels.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:42pm.
Archived comment by Jon:
I guess that I've been out of school long enough that bringing the backpack into the bathroom is a foreign concept to me...
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:39pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
Nighthawk, you actually have classes in the building designated for your major? Wow. In three years at Cal (I transferred) I only had one of my 18 English classes in the English building, and that was a once-a-week discussion section.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:20pm.
Archived comment by Nighthawk:
You want an ugly building? You should see Uris Hall at Cornell. That is the nastiest-looking building I have ever seen...

Picture a giant cube of black metal (with tinted-glass windows) resting on a concrete base. Now imagine that giant cube covered with ugly, orange rust and various other discolorations. It's really hideous. I'd link to a picture, but Cornell doesn't have one on their site. Gee, I wonder why?

And of course, it's the Psych building, so I get to take almost all my classes there from now on. Oh, joy...
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 1:19pm.
Archived comment by Penny:
"There are no mistakes. Only happy little accidents." -Bob Ross, my favorite quote of his.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 12:56pm.
Archived comment by Suplexia:
Okay, I can understand writing on the bathroom walls in a classroom building. You have your backpack with you, pens are handy, etc. What I've always wondered about are the people who write on the bathroom walls at bars. Who goes to a bar with a magic marker? Especially in the men's room...at least most women carry purses that could hold such writing utensils.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 12:45pm.
Archived comment by Matt:
I had an English class in Evans once. Horrible, horrible building. Even worse than Cory, the Electrical Engineering building the class was moved to. At least I had elbow room in Evans.
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 11:49am.
Archived comment by Montygirl:
Well, I don't need to wait for Bob Ross to come back to life to vote him into office. I'm from Missouri and I helped vote one dead guy into office - I can do it again!

and I'm sure he'd want to spruce-up the tired murals in the White House, too!
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 11:37am.
Archived comment by CAM2:
Are those like rubber baby buggy bumpers?
Posted by Anne Onymous on Wed, 09/26/2001 - 11:22am.
Archived comment by hypoxic:
Ah Evans the concrete bunker. Perhaps Bob Ross could add Evans to one of his happy scenes..."Now let's add a happy concrete bunker here. Happy Bunkers."
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