Lynn e-mails with a link to a great piece by Wendell Steavenson about an English professor in Baghdad who collects the slogans scrawled onto the city's walls.

My favourites:

"SADDAM ATE BEANS AND EMITTED STINKY AIR"

"TURKEY AND IRAN ARE A SPLIT TURD"

"WOE FOR THE WINE SELLERS AND THE VENDORS OF NUDISM AND LIBERTINISM"