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That it was, sam, that it was! I would still loved to have seen the looks and reaction of at least one person who passed by it and asked "Who the heck was MUPH?" 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 8, 2013 at 5:00 AM
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How funny! He zinged himself and somehow that is just too sweet! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 7, 2013 at 2:24 PM
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Re: thaat is a gret story!!
Thanks, jean. Glad you enjoyed it!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 7, 2013 at 8:03 AM
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thaat is a gret story!!
posted by
jeansaw
on March 6, 2013 at 2:27 PM
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That's probably true, lion, although such projects may be costly for certain towns. However, they should weigh their options . . . the expense of putting up a mural against the expense of constantly cleaning up graffiti! I would still have loved to see some of the reactions from people trying to figure out who MUPH might have been . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM
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Well, TAPS, I don't think the Lone Ranger left as many of those things laying around as people might have thought. Silver was pretty expensive in those days . . . !
posted by
JimmyA
on March 6, 2013 at 8:27 AM
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LOL, that is a pretty basic mistake.
I tend to think that if you want to avoid graffiti then perhaps you should have less ugly walls. Get murals or mosaics and perhaps people will be less inclined to deface them
posted by
lionreign
on March 6, 2013 at 3:57 AM
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What about the Lone Ranger and his silver bullet?
posted by
TAPS.
on March 5, 2013 at 10:48 PM
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Really, lustor? A $10k fine? Well, I must admit, that's quite a deterrent! However, as you've said, that's only if they're "caught in the act." What are the odds of that actually happening?
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 1:48 PM
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where I am from there was all kinds of graffiti and I have to admit my son in law was one of the many main graffiti artist and it was put there to show support for their gangs. Here where I am now I have only seen graffiti once and I heard that there is a 10k fee for the parents if their kids is caught doing the act
posted by
Lanetay
on March 5, 2013 at 7:14 AM
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It certainly did, Annicita. I mean, here I am, thirty years later, still retelling the tale! And I actually haven't seen Muph . . . er . . . Murph, in quite a long time. I wonder if he remembers this tale . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:39 AM
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Re: Jimmy
I had a feeling, Naut, that someone might have eventually brought up that possibility, like people who think it's cute to sometimes spell fish with a PH. Unfortunately, this particular graffiti artist just wasn't that clever! In fact, if people knew he had actually spelled his own name wrong, the cute concept of muff would have went right out the window . . . !
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:37 AM
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I'm glad, lovelylady. I love passing on humorous tales such as this. And I guess we're cut from the same cloth . . . I don't drink either, and am also a terrible speller, drunk or sober!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:33 AM
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Well, mariss, since a "tipsy" person scrawled it, I guess it's only fitting that tipsy people try to decipher it! I've always wondered how long that thing remained up there . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:31 AM
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Re: what a laugh.....I remember years ago it was the in thing to do to write
Glad you enjoyed that, Kabu. And you never know . . . there never really was any "MUPH," but there may have actually been a "FOO!" And they were seemingly everywhere . . . !
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:26 AM
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Re: JimmyA
That probably would have worked, Wiley. What other possible excuse could someone give ( or leave ) for spelling their own name wrong? And who knows . . . "MURH" might have been less confusing than "MUPH!"
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:23 AM
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That's actually an excellent point, FSI. I too wonder if I saw something so cryptic, so confusing, so indecipherable, that was just the result of someone's poor attempt at spelling!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:21 AM
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It very well may be, adnohr! I saw a store map one time where someone had placed an X on a spot and wrote "You are not here!" Could that have been you . . . ?
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:19 AM
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Re: My favorite grafitti so far was in a restroom on a university campus:
And I suppose, Ciel, that we'll never know exactly who Heisenberg was, or if they were even actually on that campus, just like the people who are still trying to figure out who the hell MUPH may have been! Ah, the beauty of cryptic graffiti . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:15 AM
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Very much the good ol' days, C C T! Yeah, this is a story that will live on forever! "Murph" may have faded into obscurity, but there will always be just one MUPH!
posted by
JimmyA
on March 5, 2013 at 5:11 AM
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oh well...makes the night more memorable for everybody
posted by
Annicita
on March 4, 2013 at 7:16 PM
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Jimmy
Maybe people thought it was a novel way of spelling 'Muff'...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 4, 2013 at 4:08 PM
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See?? This is precisely the reason I don't drink! I can't spell properly even being sober! Still, it must be a great laugh even now. You definetly made me !
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on March 4, 2013 at 2:15 PM
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A good mystery for tipsy people to ponder over. 
posted by
mariss9
on March 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM
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what a laugh.....I remember years ago it was the in thing to do to write
Foo was here, with eyes and nose looking over a wall.
posted by
Kabu
on March 4, 2013 at 11:19 AM
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JimmyA
Good one and I would have put the R in, left the H with 
beer beside it with a squiggly mark beside it to show the guy was drunk.LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM
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That is hilarious that he misspelled his name. I now wonder how many of those graffiti messages I did not understand were the result of misspellings.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 4, 2013 at 9:56 AM
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What memories are made of!! Now you've made me wonder if my "This was not ME!" is still on the wall of the bar near the old Montreal Forum .
posted by
adnohr
on March 4, 2013 at 9:28 AM
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My favorite grafitti so far was in a restroom on a university campus:
HEISENBERG MAY HAVE BEEN HERE
posted by
Ciel
on March 4, 2013 at 8:57 AM
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Well you remembered Jimmy and perhaps it would have faded into oblivion if he had completed his quest.Good old days ?
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 8:33 AM
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