Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/KroySquare.jpg Do you remember seeing Kilroy before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Cherokee, SASS#48332 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 That was from WWII..Right? I remember an old movie from the '60's on the Sunday night Walt Disney show about a guy named Kilroy..I guess he was supposed to be the original Kilroy..Don't remember much about the movie though.. Good times back then..Seems there was more worth watching on TV on the three channels we could pick up back then than there is on the hundreds we get on satellite now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Spillover to post WWII kids..we were still writing it on most everything even up to the early sixties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorado Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 That was WWII. But did you know that Kilroy was real. He was an inspector on the ships that would ferry soldiers off to the ETO. After he would inspect a panel he would have to initial it but his initials would be destroyed so he started drawing that guy and writing "Kilroy was here". Some of his signatures would survive and soldiers going oversees in the new ships would see that someone named Kilroy had already been there. Stories grew of this amazing Kilroy and soon soldiers would place "Kilroy was here" on the places they'd been. He became a legend just because of a little picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oklahomabound Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Spillover to post WWII kids..we were still writing it on most everything even up to the early sixties. +1 ...musta been an Oklahoma kid thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Nope, we had Kilroy in So. Illinois in the 40s, 50s and perhaps even into the 60s. Kilroy was everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Spillover to post WWII kids..we were still writing it on most everything even up to the early sixties. Yep. Our high school in Logan, Utah had Kilroy all over the place. Haven't seen him in a long time. Maybe he retired. :lol:/> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 So. Calif. too. I still scrawl it occasionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4F0R_Kilroy_Was_Here_World_War_II_Memorial_Washington_DC I found it humorous, and appropriate, that "Kilroy was here" is engraved at two location on the WWII Memorial in Washington DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Mudd Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Had a little "trailer vs. car" trouble on the right rear of the PT Cruiser. Kilroy appeared on the repair. Temporary repair done with the "Handymans Secret Weapon" dontcha know? Temporary is anything under 2 years; right?! Took Kilroy over a year to show up. Geezer must be gettin' old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Had Kilroy in Tennessee too. My dad, a WWII vet explain him in part to me. Before I retired I did a lot of custom fabrication, welding and metal work mostly, out of my dad's shop and as part of my regular job as well. There are vehicles out there right now with Kilroy riding around on them. My dad was amused and suprised when he would find the li'l feller stareing back at him when he checked out my work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Little Guy made it to Missouri! Oh that brought back memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Kilroy made it to my highschool in rural New South Wales during the early '70s ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 My dad had an ink pen back in the '50's that had a gravity operated sliding sleeve inside a clear tube. When the pen was held one way the cover said "Kilroy was here." Turn it over and the sleeve dropped exposing a pregnant woman inside. I didn't get the joke back then, but I think I understand it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 My dad had an ink pen back in the '50's that had a gravity operated sliding sleeve inside a clear tube. When the pen was held one way the cover said "Kilroy was here." Turn it over and the sleeve dropped exposing a pregnant woman inside. I didn't get the joke back then, but I think I understand it now! :lol:/>/> Ya think? :lol:/> Stuff like that is highly collectable these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tennessee Stud, SASS# 43634 Life Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Quail Bird... "Here" is not a place. "This forum"... is not a place. This place is an electronic telephone call... where misunderstandin's can be easily had.... good wimmen can be lost... feelin's hurt accidentally... misheard stuff blown out of proportion... and conjured-up crap. A "place" is where you can grab holt of another man's hand. A "place" is where you can look a man in the eye. A "place' where you can gleam the look in a pretty woman's eye... the blush of her face... the elegance of her curves... This... is not a "place"... Kilroy was never here.... and never will be. ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 ts, How is it that a man of your stature, sagaciousness, and superior intellect can be so hornswoggled so as not to extrapolate that Kilroy was here? I suspect you've been hangin' around those women of ill repute again. They've been corruptin' and poisonin' your mind! ******(.'''.)******* --ooo--U--ooo-- Kilroy was here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 My dad had an ink pen back in the '50's that had a gravity operated sliding sleeve inside a clear tube. When the pen was held one way the cover said "Kilroy was here." Turn it over and the sleeve dropped exposing a pregnant woman inside. I didn't get the joke back then, but I think I understand it now! :lol:/> http://www.mearsonlineauctions.com/LotImages/13/5128a_lg.jpeg http://www.mearsonlineauctions.com/LotImages/13/5128b_lg.jpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I saw him at the polls, election day. http://www.firearmsroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=10954&highlight=kilroy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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