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From: wiz@rcsg30.eld.ford.com (Joseph Stanley (Joe) Wisniewski)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: ASCII Kilroy
Date: 21 Dec 1994 18:59:29 GMT
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In article <ogreD15oLE.5rA@netcom.com>, ogre@netcom.com (Joe Rumsey) writes:
|> I've crossposted this to alt.ascii-art, they might be able to help.
|> 
|> Jamie Andrews (jamie@cs.sfu.ca) wrote:
|> >All right, where did this guy come from?!?
|> 
|> >                                        \\|//
|> >                                        (O O)
|> >------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----
|> 
|> >I've seen him (her?) on at least 10 .sigs in the last WEEK.
|> >Don't remember seeing him before.

Your little guy is called Clem, not Kilroy. Clem is a popular grafetti
that goes all the way back to the 1890's, and would often be seen in
the margins of edited copy. I've been seeing Clem in email and news sigs
for years. The words "Kilroy was Here" are another popular piece of
grafetti, believed to have been spread by a newspaper correspondant in
World War I. Like many popular pieces of grafetti, they often appear
near eachother, and have come to be associated with eachother.
 
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