Re: ASCII Kilroy
In article <3d9tuh$hl...@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, wi...@rcsg30.eld.ford.com (Joseph Stanley (Joe) Wisniewski) writes: > In article <ogr...@netcom.com>, ogr...@netcom.com (Joe Rumsey) writes: > |> I've crossposted this to alt.ascii-art, they might be able to help. > |> > |> Jamie Andrews (jam...@cs.sfu.ca) wrote: > |> >All right, where did this guy come from?!? > |> > |> > \\|// > |> > (O O) > |> >------------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo----- > |> > |> >I've seen him (her?) on at least 10 .sigs in the last WEEK. > |> >Don't remember seeing him before. > > Your little guy is called Clem, not Kilroy. Clem is a popular grafetti > that goes all the way back to the 1890's, and would often be seen in > the margins of edited copy. I've been seeing Clem in email and news sigs Over here, he's called Chad. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.t...@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) -- "We do want to tour again, we will tour again" - Kate Bush, Munich, 1980. --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd705,37638009a9a2d3d4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd705,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,1e8c0b6206b3a950 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-22 07:42:43 PST Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.ascii-art Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!dcs.ed.ac.uk!epcc.ed.ac.uk!st From: s.t...@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: ASCII Kilroy Message-ID: <D17...@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cne...@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. References: <199...@cs.sfu.ca> <ogr...@netcom.com> <3d9tuh$hl...@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:42:43 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: nntp.gmd.de alt.folklore.computers:68488 alt.ascii-art:18366
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