229: Graffiti

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Graffiti

Title text: FOR AN INTRIGUING TIME CALL

Explanation

The humor in this comic comes from the irony of a deep philosophical musing on the nature of individuals sharing a private space in a public place, unknown to one another and separated by time. The graffiti text is juxtaposed with more typical bathroom stall scrawlings - insults, slurs, and "X was here." The subtitle further supports the irony as Cueball notes the discrepancy in the intellectual depth of the different comments.

Transcript

[Cueball sits on a toilet in a bathroom. The stall sidewall next to him is covered in graffiti--"you suck," "Mike sucks cock," "Cunt," "dane was here" stuck through and "dane is a fag" written under it. One block of graffiti is salient:]

This graffiti is

fleeting human contact

both of us lost,

but for a moment

we're lost together.

I wonder who you are.

I think I look for meaning in the wrong places sometimes.

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Discussion

For some reason this reminds me of tor. 184.66.160.91 02:27, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Indeed Kripmo (talk) 01:58, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

If we are lost, then we are lost together. - Blue Rodeo, 1992

Windows NT

The graffiti which the description deciphers as "CUNT" could actually be WNT. An abbreviation for Windows NT. Although "CUNT" is far more likely in an actual toilet cubicle, we must remember the nature of the artist. 141.101.98.106 16:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Pretty sure there is a slight gap between the 'c' and the 'u' (or at least a much fainter line). Beanie (talk) 10:41, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

i think the BITCHAS text was supposed to be BITCHASS, an actual word i have heard before, with the last S covered up by Cueball. i dont think a weird way of spelling the plural of something where only one person is going to be in the bathroom to see it at a time makes sense. also the BITCH and AS are colored differently? maybe say that in the transcript.

—Bumpf, 3/23/21

162.158.62.87 23:41, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

I saw this graffiti at Smith Nelson Library

whoever suggested the windows reference now i'm also in that dilemma :/ An user who has no account yet (talk) 23:03, 7 September 2023 (UTC)