X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,e6c662d0129f1ec6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 115e45,753de3d81f9f7837 X-Google-Attributes: gid115e45,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-21 23:20:57 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!southern.co.nz!equinox.gen.nz!equinox!not-for-mail From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Newsgroups: alt.quotations,alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Kilroy was here Date: 22 Dec 1994 07:20:57 GMT Organization: Southern InterNet Services Lines: 98 Message-ID: <3db9cp$mai@southern.co.nz> References: <3ckm3h$467@btr0x1.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de> <3cvb5a$hbr@pentagon.io.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: equinox.gen.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 941121BETA PL0] Xref: nntp.gmd.de alt.quotations:16648 alt.ascii-art:18364 Niccolo Machiavelli (nightman@pentagon.io.com) wrote: : In article <3ckm3h$467@btr0x1.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>, : Raphael Rueffer wrote: : >For an American Cultural Literacy course I'm taking I : >need to find out as much as possible about the origin : >of the term "Kilroy was here". It probably originated : >sometime during WWII. : During WWII, (James?) Kilroy was an inspector witht he Navy. He : had to perform maintainance and qualtiy control checks and such on ships : before they set to sea. Inspectors had to initial bulkheads to show that : they had been through the area. Kilroy wrote "Kilroy was here (date)," : with a little picture of a dude with a big schnozz looking over a wall : for his mark. Deploying GIs saw this and disemminated it as they : traveled the world. : I could be off on a few details. I'm drawing from memeory -- : this inbfo was on America's Top 40 years ago, when Styx had Mr. Roboto on : the charts. Corrections are welcome. You are close, but in the genuine "Kilroy was here" there were no pictures, only the words. The pictures are either of Mr. Chad: . : : : : : : . : : : : : . . . . . . : : : x : : x : : -------UUUU---------------- : : --------------UUUU--------- | : : | | `--' | | | | Mr. CHAD says | | | | WOTCH IT !!! | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ -cfbd- Spurious Kilroy versions: .................................................. : ...... : : .:||||||||:. : : / \ : : ( o o ) : :-------@@@@----------: :----------@@@@---------: : `--' : : : : : : K I L R O Y S A Y S H I ! : :................................................: or Luke the Spook: ,,, (o o) -------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------- ,,, (. .) -------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------- . |___ (}o o{) -------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------- ,,, (o-o) -------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------- ,,, ($ $) ------------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo------- ,,, ------------------------------------------------------ooO(o o)Ooo------- (_) ,,, -------------------------------------------------------ooO(o o)Ooo------- v Bye,