Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 15 Jan 1996.
Kilroy
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· 9 messages · 15 Jan 1996 - 12 Nov 2001
How many different versions of Kilroy are out there? Can someone post
different ones, please?
Thanks bunches!!!
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| / | Kit...@cris.com | \ |
| / |Postcard interests: hot air balloons, | \ |
| / | waterfalls, bridges, castles, cats, | \ |
| / | sunsets, lighthouses and fireworks | \ |
| / |_______________________________________| \ |
Email me if you are interested in trading
In article <4deb89$3l...@spectator.cris.com> Kitten <kit...@cris.com> writes: >How many different versions of Kilroy are out there? Can someone post >different ones, please? > >Thanks bunches!!! > > > ///|\\\ > (( ~ ~ )) > __^__ )) @ @ (( __^__ > ( ___ }============oOOo--U--oOOo============( ___ ) > | / | Kit...@cris.com | \ | > | / |Postcard interests: hot air balloons, | \ | > | / | waterfalls, bridges, castles, cats, | \ | > | / | sunsets, lighthouses and fireworks | \ | > | / |_______________________________________| \ | > Email me if you are interested in trading > > Note: That is -not- Kilroy. That character is named "Luke the Spook", and was an informal warning about leaving info where spies could see it, from WWII. Kilroy was never seen. He was like the average "faceless" G.I. who was everywhere, but never stood out from the crowd. The two pieces of graffiti were often on the same walls and such, but are unrelated.
In article <4dg1sd$rj...@mother.usf.edu>, wal...@sunflash.eng.usf.edu (John
Walker (CS)) wrote:
*> ///|\\\
*> (( ~ ~ ))
*> __^__ )) @ @ (( __^__
*> ( ___ }============oOOo--U--oOOo============( ___ )
*> | / | Kit...@cris.com | \ |
*> | / |Postcard interests: hot air balloons, | \ |
*> | / | waterfalls, bridges, castles, cats, | \ |
*> | / | sunsets, lighthouses and fireworks | \ |
*> | / |_______________________________________| \ |
*> Email me if you are interested in trading
*>
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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."
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>Doesn't anyone want to answer my original question or is everyone going >to simply keep correcting me on something I was told? Here, take mine: ________________________________________________________________________ Dav...@hp-loveland-om10.om.hp.com _---_ Hewlett Packard Corporation / O O \ (970) 635-6736 ---((((-------U-------))))---
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I know sometime in this group I've seen a little 5 or 6-line Kilroy Was Here logo. Copied it once, lost it in an HD reformat. Anybody got it? TIA. -- Zonker
"Zonker" <dth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG...@news.cis.dfn.de... > I know sometime in this group I've seen a little 5 or 6-line Kilroy Was > Here logo. Copied it once, lost it in an HD reformat. > > Anybody got it? > > TIA. > > -- > Zonker try here http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/jkl/kilroy.txt or you try eftiwall a figlet font at http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ --lgbeard
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with LGB: > > "Zonker" <dth...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:MPG...@news.cis.dfn.de... > > I know sometime in this group I've seen a little 5 or 6-line Kilroy Was > > Here logo. Copied it once, lost it in an HD reformat. > > > > Anybody got it? > > > > TIA. > > > > -- > > Zonker > > try here > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/jkl/kilroy.txt > > or you try eftiwall a figlet font at > http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ > > --lgbeard That first one was exactly the one. Thank ya. -- Zonker
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:01:41 -0600, Zonker <dth...@SCREWTHESPAMyahoo.com> provoked the following text: >> > I know sometime in this group I've seen a little 5 or 6-line Kilroy Was >> > Here logo. Copied it once, lost it in an HD reformat. >> > >> > Anybody got it? >> > >> > TIA. >> > >> try here >> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/jkl/kilroy.txt >> >> or you try eftiwall a figlet font at >> http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ >> >That first one was exactly the one. > >Thank ya. I liked this one best: No clue. Thought he was your friend. Who is this guy? / No friend of What? \ / _ / mine. | / *** /\\\ _|_|_ You? |.===. (o o) (o o) (o o) (|o o|) ----ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo-ooO--(_)--Ooo---- Dra...@BYU.EDU http://acs1.byu.edu/~readingp/ _ ----------------------Ooo--( )--ooO---------------------------- (o o) ||| \ Oh, him! You don't wanna know! -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Castrate my email adress to reply. What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.
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