15 + 96 points
Eats, shoots and leaves by Adam, GYØ Stumpy Rumpy, Ben Yamiin
August 9th, 2009 2:24 PM
For those who knew it it before:
Firstly, a great big thank you for 'MonkeyBoy Dan' your help and re-submission was greatly appreciated! I am new here and didn't intend for my first post to be so controversial, I'm still getting used to everything (I'll do better next time). I have chosen to re-submit over much debate by other people as I did not want to collect any points that were ill deserved.
This is my first proper task firstly, I decided to use the graffiti and wall scribbles of the common (or garden) Yarco (‘Yarco’ – a tracksuit wearing, bling wielding wannabe chav from Great Yarmouth). Secondly, I planned to improve them grammatically by replacing missing apostrophes and forgotten commas. My aim was to improve the standard of graffiti that adorns our town and hopefully create a new generation of scribblers who can express their insults with some degree of sophistication.
In addition I was eager to encourage those who were making the effort to display orthographically correct messages and as a child my teachers would reward this through stickers, therefore it was off to the stationers to purchase marker pens and sparkly stickers.
Very soon into our mission it became clear that we would have a lot of work to do as we were faced with messages such as the two below:


So Adam and I decided that we would have to be changing many badly spelt words along with the input of punctuation. The next two pictures show the first alteration:


Next we drag poor Ben around the grimy and dingy back streets of Yarmouth town and it didn’t take long to find a whole host of correctable scribbles and signs.






The following pictures show how we rewarded the better written drawings with stickers and ticks (check marks).



All we could understand from the writing in the next pictures was that it was the names of three people and so we awarded the shiny sticker for handwriting and sentimentality.



The following scribble had been bothering Adam for a long time now as it is on his way into town and he had to be reminded constantly of the narrow minded and ignorant population that make up a lot of the area. So, we made it better. =)



This was a fitting end to the day and despite the fact that my younger brother now thinks that I am going to jail for writing on walls, I think that it was a good and productive day and eagerly look forward to seeing a more sophisticated level graffiti around the town.
Firstly, a great big thank you for 'MonkeyBoy Dan' your help and re-submission was greatly appreciated! I am new here and didn't intend for my first post to be so controversial, I'm still getting used to everything (I'll do better next time). I have chosen to re-submit over much debate by other people as I did not want to collect any points that were ill deserved.
This is my first proper task firstly, I decided to use the graffiti and wall scribbles of the common (or garden) Yarco (‘Yarco’ – a tracksuit wearing, bling wielding wannabe chav from Great Yarmouth). Secondly, I planned to improve them grammatically by replacing missing apostrophes and forgotten commas. My aim was to improve the standard of graffiti that adorns our town and hopefully create a new generation of scribblers who can express their insults with some degree of sophistication.
In addition I was eager to encourage those who were making the effort to display orthographically correct messages and as a child my teachers would reward this through stickers, therefore it was off to the stationers to purchase marker pens and sparkly stickers.
Very soon into our mission it became clear that we would have a lot of work to do as we were faced with messages such as the two below:


So Adam and I decided that we would have to be changing many badly spelt words along with the input of punctuation. The next two pictures show the first alteration:


Next we drag poor Ben around the grimy and dingy back streets of Yarmouth town and it didn’t take long to find a whole host of correctable scribbles and signs.






The following pictures show how we rewarded the better written drawings with stickers and ticks (check marks).



All we could understand from the writing in the next pictures was that it was the names of three people and so we awarded the shiny sticker for handwriting and sentimentality.



The following scribble had been bothering Adam for a long time now as it is on his way into town and he had to be reminded constantly of the narrow minded and ignorant population that make up a lot of the area. So, we made it better. =)



This was a fitting end to the day and despite the fact that my younger brother now thinks that I am going to jail for writing on walls, I think that it was a good and productive day and eagerly look forward to seeing a more sophisticated level graffiti around the town.

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posted by MonkeyBoy Dan on August 10th, 2009 5:46 AM
Controversial is good!
Better to be infamous than ignored.
posted by JTony Loves Brains on August 10th, 2009 1:28 PM
Me Givered 5 points beforetime, Me givering 5 points nowsters!
posted by GYØ Stumpy Rumpy on August 10th, 2009 1:42 PM
Thank you for all the points everyone = )
I can't wait to see what other people do with the task
posted by Eidhnean entwines on September 28th, 2009 7:27 AM
Points esp. for "Kittens for the British".
posted by officer j-dog on September 30th, 2009 2:58 AM
i love the sticker idea! perfect score!
5 points, as promised.
I think this was an excellent idea, and now the task has been added, it shouldn't be long before I give this a go myself...