not for urinals, but an old bathroom classic:
If you sprinkle when you tinkle,
be a sweetie and wipe the seaty....

Here I sit, broken hearted,
paid a panny, but only farted.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle,
be a sweetie and wipe the seaty

I know it as:
"If you sprinkle when you tinkle,
Be sweet and wipe the seat"

Eigentlich werden ja keine Sprüche gesucht, sondern eine Übersetzung, oder?

Aber was soll's ... für alle Umweltschützer und Wassereinsparer:

If it's brown, flush it down - if it's yellow, let it mellow.

@Jalapeno, yes, you were spot-on, it's the translation I'm looking for. So, is 'loo poetry' commonly accepted, does it instantly ring a bell with the native speakers of either BE / AE as much as 'Klosprüche' does with a L1 German?
Since I've never made it to the States, UK, NZ, OZ, is loo poetry in those places as commonly found as in Central Europe?
(...I thoroughly checked the forum before I posted, but could not retrieve a satisfying answer; the way I've just made use of 'loo poetry' in the above paragraph, sounds/feels dodgy to me)

@ Jalapeno: an Freitagabenden gelten andere Gesetze ;-)

Potty poems, toilet poetry, washroom rhymes, funny urinal ditties, farting comedy text and humorous passing gas lyrics

So take your pick. :-))

Okay - weil Freitag is' ...

Variante zu #3 von Gart:

Here I sit, broken-hearted,
tried to sh*t, but only farted


Here I sit and contemplate,
should I sh*t or m*****bate

The word 'loo' is BE; for AE it would have to be

bathroom / restroom / lavatory / toilet
poetry / rhymes / verses / couplets / doggerel / sayings / graffiti,

something like that.

Is this more of a European, er, cultural practice? We have graffiti in public restrooms, but it's mostly not remotely literary that I've ever noticed. Bad words, names of girl- and boyfriends, phone numbers, drawings, but not poems.

@ Woody 1

Da stimmt was nicht mit deiner *-Taste, ich glaube die klemmt.

Ist halt verklemmt ;-)

Ultimativer Donnerspruch:
Stop writing on the walls - or the walls will be removed!

I've heard latrinalia, but also bathroom/restroom graffiti used (the latter obviously not only doggerel.)

The most intelligent and witty latrinalia is, in my experience, found in university loos.

One of the wittiest ones I ever saw was on the wall in front of a urinal. It said "Do you want to play toilet tennis? Look left!". When you looked left, it said "Look right" on the wall. When you looked right, it said "Look left". I could have been there forever, playing toilet tennis.

I agree with hm. I don't think there's a commonly accepted term for this, other than graffiti, in the U.S. And, as hm said, it mostly doesn't tend to be witty or particularly literary. Rhymes are far outnumbered by the kinds of things hm mentioned.

Maybe it's just the bathrooms I've been using lately, but I don't think the graffiti is nearly as common as it used to be. Last week I was in a restroom at a rest area in Indiana and was quite surprised by the quantity of comments in the stall. It struck me as unusual nowadays and I wondered whether large numbers of teenagers had descended on this particular rest area and marked up the walls. The kinds of things written reminded me of the stuff I used to see on the bathroom stalls when I was in junior high.

It's perhaps interesting to note that the high school I was in last year had no graffiti in the bathrooms, at least not that I saw in the women's bathrooms. That didn't occur to me until I started thinking about an answer in this thread.

my gut feeling is that 'Klosprüche' needs to be paraphrased ...which is only fair enough.
@tomtom: different venues cater for different people, and that is quite clearly reflected by the quality of commentary left behind.

Compilations of the best ever (German) latrinalia have already been published. The language in use can be vulgar at times, whilst some punchlines may have a direct link with the nature of the business (flush or mellow), but more often than not, 'Klosprüche' are sharp, down to the point and dead funny. And I would like to think that that is what the majority of the general (German) public associates with the very word 'Klosprüche'.

Anyway, Thanks for the suggestions, my favourites so far: Bathroom graffiti; Loo punchlines; Urinal ditties
('toilet poetry', also 'toilet rhymes', put too much emphasis on, well, poetry&rhyme, which it is not about)

what a pleasure, what a joy,
I was here before Kilroy.

http://www.witze-ohne-ende.de/toilettenspruec...

http://www.lustige-witze.com/toilettenspruech...

http://www.wehedulachst.net/witze/toilettensp...

http://www.spruecheportal.de/toilettensprueche.php

http://www.faz.net/artikel/C30745/beleidigung...

http://www.lachmeister.de/lustige-sprueche/to...

http://www.sprueche-index.de/witze/toilettens...

http://www.witze-fun.de/witze/kategorie/57

Here's one of the funnier ones from the compilation linked below:

"Everybody pisses on the floor. Be a hero and shit on the ceiling."

http://www.thewritingsonthestall.com/

Ist zwar nicht einer von den typischen Klosprüchen,
aber der (von Pachulkes Link Nr. 4) gefällt mir auch gut:

In mir schlummert ein Genie, nur wird das Biest nicht wach.

Nice wordplay. Or this scurrilous specimen:

"Men are like pantyhose – they either run, cling or don't fit right in the crotch."

http://www.johnstallwisdom.com/page/toilet-gr...

Oops, sorry, straying from the topic.