Justin writes about grout puns written between the tiles of the men’s restrooms at PSU. By chance I was dumbfounded by a similiar piece of work in the men’s room at the Elysian a while back. Every piece of grout graffiti in sight was some kind of post-modern comment on grout or grout graphiti.
I did a quick search and it seems that this phenomenon is more widespread than one might expect.
Who is responsible for this? As far as I know this only occurs behind urinals, so the culprits would be male. Since the only convenient time to create this graffiti is when one is standing there with the tile one foot in front of one’s face, it would be fair to assume that the culprits are also near-sighted. And so . . . all signs point back to .