Posted on 05/02/2005 6:16:53 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Kilroy is still here.
James L. Kilroy, that is. The ship inspector credited with creating one of America's most potent military mottos remains dear to the nation's heart.
On the job around 1942, he wrote just three words in presumed anonymity on the hull of a Liberty ship: "Kilroy was here."
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
Thats not true...it was my Moms cousin and his friend that started it. My cousin Francis Kilroy was a cartoonist.
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"Killroy was here!"
I was born in 1941, and one of my first recollections of a Halloween prank played on our family: Someone wrote on our front door "Killroy was here". I wondered who is Killroy" and why did he write on our house?
Thanks for jogging my memory. I couldn't read the story. I don't want to register.
Check out http://www.BugMeNot.com
You enter the URL to a website, and it will give you a password to get in...
Are you sure? Then you should contact the author of this story.
I am positive..have his drawings..there was a write up in his local paper that I have a copy of. I have written website authors in the past and sent them the stuff. My MOm always talked of him and this from when I was little.
I was such a fan in high school, I thought that surely this would be a Styx thread.
Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto
Thank you very much.
I found this web site, which has some good jokes about Kilroy.
http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html
I found this site... which mentions pitinkie's cousin:
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordork.htm (scroll down a bit)
There you go..the new york slimes started the story that the ship builder was the guy...got it wrong as usual!
Perhaps you should e-mail the author over at the Washington Times.
Cant find her address..just generic email to them.
Thanx. Great read, including the threads.
LOL. That's what I was thinking re: Mr. Roboto.
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