X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,e6c662d0129f1ec6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 115e45,753de3d81f9f7837 X-Google-Attributes: gid115e45,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-28 11:34:50 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!sgeier From: sgeier@venus.astro.umd.edu (Sven Geier) Newsgroups: alt.quotations,alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Kilroy was here Date: 28 Dec 1994 10:15:21 GMT Organization: U. of Maryland @ College Park, Astronomy Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <3ckm3h$467@btr0x1.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de> <3cvb5a$hbr@pentagon.io.com> <3db9cp$mai@southern.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.astro.umd.edu In-reply-to: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz's message of 22 Dec 1994 07:20:57 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de alt.quotations:16805 alt.ascii-art:18556 In article <3db9cp$mai@southern.co.nz> Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes: Niccolo Machiavelli (nightman@pentagon.io.com) wrote: : 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. You are close, but in the genuine "Kilroy was here" there were no pictures, only the words. Hummm - I seem to recall, that the first name was something with an "o" at the beginning (Orville?) - at least I was *told*, that this is the origin of the "O. K." as a synonym for "checked" or "allright". But then again, that could be an urban legend ... Sven -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /'''