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Return of the hieroglyphs: M2 + Egypt = Awesome

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The students responsible for the now world-famous* hieroglyphic sex graffiti have returned to express their love for Egypt.
I ran this one by my expert Egyptologist, and in addition to translating it they had some fascinating remarks about the characters they chose to render ‘Egypt’:
Egypt here is written with the “foreign land” determinative (hill-shapes) –when [...]

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The latest from the library

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

It’s 5th week, which means more students are heading to the Reg to study for midterms. (Or not study, as the case may be.) During the last few months, the Crescat Graffiti blog has ventured beyond the Regenstein Library to explore the graffiti in Harper (mostly-not-my-gender) bathrooms, in far-flung dorms, in other campus libraries, at [...]

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The decline and fall of the B-level men’s room

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

It’s been about a month since I last wrote about the B-level men’s room (first post can be found here, last month’s update here, though I’ve been back a couple times since). The decline has begun: philosopher wordplay has descended into more penis drawings and an attempt to turn an anti-gay slur into a pun.
Perhaps [...]

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