Minneapolis Billboard Graffiti: BRILLIANT!!!

I am doing a research paper on the subculture surrounding Graffiti. Interesting topic, let me tell you. And I stumbled across this litte materpiece-er, HORRIBLE VANDALISM---- ok, come on. I love graffiti. Always have. It used to be a guilty pleasure, but now I am reading this marvelous book on its history and culture by Gregory J. Snyder (who, by the way, became immersed in the culture in order to study it, and is now an assistant profffesor at a university in New York), and I realize that there is a good bit of thought and art put into a lot of it.

ANYWHO.... I found this clever little ditty... take a look-see

BEFORE ^^^^^

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AFTER!!!! ^^^^^

Brilliant.