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From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
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Subject: ASCII Kilroy
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Sorry to disappoint all you Kilroy fans - but in the genuine "Kilroy
was here" there were no pictures, only the words "Kilroy was here"
and in the authentic writings by Kilroy himself - he also added the
date.

nightman@pentagon.io.com (Niccolo Machiavelli) wrote:

> During WWII, (James?) Kilroy was an inspector witht he Navy.  He
> had to perform maintenance and quality 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) ".  Deploying GIs saw this and disseminated it as
> they travelled the world.


When the Kilroy craze caught on there were all sorts of variants.
Pictures of Kilroy appeared but they were actually derivatives of
"Mr. Chad" who also seemed to appear during World War 2  usually
showing this line drawing of a nosey character peeping over a brick
wall with the word " WOTCHIT " written on the wall.


Here is a simplified ascii version of Mr. Chad:



                       . : : : : : : .
                     :                 :
                   :                    :
                  :    . . .    . . .    :
                  :   :  x  :  :  x  :   :
-------UUUU---------------- :  : --------------UUUU---------
|                           :  :                           |
|                           `--'                           |
|                                                          |
|                      Mr. CHAD  says                      |
|                                                          |
|                        WOTCH IT  !!!                     |
|                                                          |
|                                                          |
------------------------------------------------------------
                                            -cfbd-




Here's a Spurious Kilroy version of Mr.Chad:

    ..................................................
    :                    ......                      :
    :                 .:||||||||:.                   :
    :                /            \                  :
    :               (   o      o   )                 :
    :-------@@@@----------:  :----------@@@@---------:
    :                     `--'                       :
    :                                                :
    :                                                :
    :         K I L R O Y   S A Y S   H I !          :
    :................................................:



The following are "Luke the Spook" (often referred to incorrectly as
Kilroy):

                                                           ,,,
                                                          (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


As for the name "Clem" - well why not ?  It seems that any name you
fancy is OK for these characters.


Most recently the "Spying at the Wall" collection has been created
which are yet again derivatives of Chad and Luke the Spook. Perhaps
all this should be in one of the folklore newsgroups but the history
goes back much further than Cyberspace.

Bye,