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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Mar 2002.

                            
    
    
Re: Graffiti
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Graffiti

                    

                        From Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 24 Mar 2002 20:57                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
"badstyle" <spa...@spam.com> 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.


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Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer
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