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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Dec 1994.

                            
    
    
Re: ASCII Kilroy
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: ASCII Kilroy

                    

                        From Tim Poston <ti...@iss.nus.sg>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 29 Dec 1994 07:19                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
Colin Douthwaite (Col...@equinox.gen.nz) wrote:

: 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.  

Not always.
Often the message was a "Wot no...?"
question (Wot no tea?  Wot no second front),
and above him rather than on the wall.

Tim
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Tim Poston    Institute of Systems Science, Nat. Univ. of Singapore
  Religious reasons do not excuse violence: they accuse religion.
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