ASCII Kilroy
From Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
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· 27 Dec 1994 22:18 · View full thread
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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. nig...@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,
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