Re: Kilroy
In article <4dg1sd$rj...@mother.usf.edu>, wal...@sunflash.eng.usf.edu (John
Walker (CS)) wrote:
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*Note: That is -not- Kilroy. That character is named "Luke the Spook",
*and was an informal warning about leaving info where spies could see it,
*from WWII. Kilroy was never seen. He was like the average "faceless"
*G.I. who was everywhere, but never stood out from the crowd. The two
*pieces of graffiti were often on the same walls and such, but are unrelated.
Correct. "Kilroy" was the name of a missle inspector of the same war,
who, on each missle 'cleared,' would scrawl "Kilroy Was Here."
Now back to your regulary scheduled ASCII-art.
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