Sideswipe: October 2: Council art instalment?

A reader writes: "My wife and I saw this at Laurieston Park, Glendene over the weekend. A TV had been dumped and rather than take the rubbish away, Auckland Council put a sticker on it."

NZ Sux was the real deal

"New Zealand Sux graffiti is no urban legend," writes Robert Densem. "I saw this graffiti on an abutment to the Sydney Harbour Bridge around 1989 when graffiti actually meant something. The NZ cricket team were doing rather well against the Aussies. Hence the 'Aus nil'."

Half wit, half brains. "Mum had a magazine with an article about Einstein and a life-size (half) picture of him on the front cover," said Philip Bates, who couldn't help doing this with it.

Graffiti artistry

1) "Another classic piece of clever graffiti was from the 1978 General Election," writes Stuart Rattenbury of Royal Oak. "The National Party's billboards featured portraits of their (all male) Cabinet above the tag line "Man for man the strongest team". One stroke of a graffiti artist's pen altered this to "Man for man the strangest team".

2) "Several years ago New Zealand had the odd sign along the motorway telling us to "Keep New Zealand Green". Underneath one of them, someone had written "don't tell 'em anything!".

3) A sign in the London underground read: "Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted" and underneath was written "but Bill Stickers is innocent".

4) During a visit to Florence, Italy, overnight every STOP sign on the city's roads had "killing animals" added.

5) Years ago Clare had a stall at Cook St market in Auckland, and each year I sold calendars with photos of graffiti from around New Zealand made by a local photographer.  "The best one I remember was on the wall of the underbridge of New North Road and said 'my mother made me a homosexual', and then someone added 'if I buy her some wool will she make one for me'.  Still makes me laugh."

Anyone got a match? "My daughter's chicken, who incidentally is named Roast, found its way into the brazier," writes a reader.

Picture this: "I'm sure Harcourts cleared this image with Lucasfilm..." says RedditNZ user MurrayMcScurrilous.

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