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Ur_Vile_WEdge -> RE: Next quiz (11/3/2010 8:13:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: brian brian
During the war Kilroy was an inspector of some type of military gear coming off a production line in the USA somewhere. Soldiers picked up on seeing his name frequently and began spreading the phrase. Perhaps a good trivia question would be what was the original equipment he was inspecting? (I think the answer might even already be in this thread?)
I've heard this explanation, but it would seem to me to be inaccurate. While some inspector named "Kilroy" might put his mark on something he's checked at, the little doodle with the guy looking over the wall and a huge nose, seems a bit childish and, perhaps more importantly, time wasting.
Furthermore, you have drawings of extremely similar natures with different names "Foo" and "Chad" being very common, especially where British and Australian forces wound up, which casts some doubt about it being an inspector's sigil.
Furthermore, there was a chalked graffito of the thing on Fort Knox, which was at least accompanied by a date of 5/13/1937 (Although there was some doubt that the date was genuine in the thing I heard about it, there was some sway to the idea that someone put it in at a later date signed it to earlier) And the "Foo was here" graffiti dates all the way back to WW1.
Lastly, the question was what was Asimov's "explanation" Although, all this expansion has kind of killed the joke I wanted to make, so Brian brian, feel free to hit with a trivia question.
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