I was just sitting, pretty much
staring into space, and had this
flashback to my
time in
college:
The only bit of graffiti I have ever written.
(I think)
In the bathroom in the computer center there was some
graffiti in Russian. I don't know Russian, but some
word like nyet was the tipoff. For some odd reason
I felt like I should add something. I took out a pen
and wrote, "Da Tetris!", just below it.
I didn't think much more about it, though I know the
graffiti stayed up there for a while. A year
or two later, I was hanging out with some friends
and one of them was wearing a "Russian Club" T-Shirt.
There were various phrases in Russian printed
kind of randomly on the shirt (in different sizes
and orientations). Somewhere in the middle of
the shirt was that magic phrase,
"Da Tetris!"
So I asked the guy about this. Sure enough, he said
that this had been spotted in the computer center
bathroom and everybody in the Russian Club got a
big laugh out of it and it became some kind of
inside joke for them. I told him I was the source
and he said, "cool," but in a tone that kind of
gave me the feeling he didn't believe me.