X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,5d316f963889bd0c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-24 12:57:28 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Graffiti Date: 24 Mar 2002 21:57:30 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 24 Message-ID: <6ueli9elad.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3c9d8ac9.18320924@news.ispdr.net.au> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2002 20:57:30 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: pfaff.ethz.ch 1017003443 galapagos.ethz.ch (24 Mar 2002 21:57:23 +0100) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16190 "badstyle" writes: > kilroy, as in kilroy silk? from day-time television? > > he is a gentleman and a scholar. No. That would be Kilroy as in the first tagger. As much as it surprises todays kids, there once existed days when no one had ever seen a graffiti! Then the first one appeared: the simple text "Kilroy was here", in 100s of places, written in simple handwriting, not the elaborate block letters used today by taggers. That was AFAIK some time 1970s in the US. L.A., IIRC. P.S: What is "kilroy silk"? We have no US television (apart from a few blockbusters like Startreck, Miami Vice or X-Files) here outside the US. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery