"Kilroy was here!" The legend continues!
Eutrusca
02-05-2005, 23:42
From the inside of Liberty Ship boiler rooms to the top of Mt. Everest ... even in the dust layer on the moon ... "Kilroy was here" has been an underground legend since the early days of WWII.
I stumbled across this site about Kilroy (http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html) and loved it!
Ooops...wrong Kilroy. I thought it was gonna be about the prat who started Veritas (UK political Party). That one seems more interesting...
Eutrusca
02-05-2005, 23:48
Ooops...wrong Kilroy. I thought it was gonna be about the prat who started Veritas (UK political Party). That one seems more interesting...
Pity. Did you read the article? :)
Pity. Did you read the article? :)
Yes. It was interesting to note how many different ideas there were surrounding how the legend came to be, but as with all good legends, you should pick whichever means most to you, thats what makes a truly great legend!
(Though they would, mostly, seem to link back to the shipyard inspector).
I personally like...
Legend #2 Thanks to Eric Willeke, Savannah, GA. I always thought that Kilroy grew up in Boston and loved to sneak away from school to see the Red Sox games looking over the wall in left field at Fenway Park. When the war broke out, he became an artillery observer and when his unit landed at Normandy, the locals felt that, with his nose, he looked like Charles De Gaulle. General Eisenhower decided to dress him as the French General posing in a fake headquarters to convince German spies that he was the French General marshaling troops for the real invasion. The Germans held their reserves waiting for the invasion led by De Gaulle which enabled the famous breakthrough at St Lo. After meeting De Gaulle nose to nose, he was returned to his unit where his buddies scrawled "Kilroy was here" wherever they went. Kilroy left the Army after the war to again see his beloved Red Sox at his favorite spot on the green monster.
If this story is not true, it should be.
The Downmarching Void
03-05-2005, 00:01
That's one of my all time favourite pieces of oddball history. I don't think it will ever die. I hope not anyways.
Swimmingpool
03-05-2005, 01:17
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2004/10/28/nukip28.jpg
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 01:20
That's one of my all time favourite pieces of oddball history. I don't think it will ever die. I hope not anyways.
Someday, when humans walk on Mars, someone will inscribe "Kilroy was here" on a large Martian rock and the legend will begin yet again! :D
Eutrusca
03-05-2005, 01:21
Yes. It was interesting to note how many different ideas there were surrounding how the legend came to be, but as with all good legends, you should pick whichever means most to you, thats what makes a truly great legend!
(Though they would, mostly, seem to link back to the shipyard inspector).
I personally like...
Legend #2 Thanks to Eric Willeke, Savannah, GA. I always thought that Kilroy grew up in Boston and loved to sneak away from school to see the Red Sox games looking over the wall in left field at Fenway Park. When the war broke out, he became an artillery observer and when his unit landed at Normandy, the locals felt that, with his nose, he looked like Charles De Gaulle. General Eisenhower decided to dress him as the French General posing in a fake headquarters to convince German spies that he was the French General marshaling troops for the real invasion. The Germans held their reserves waiting for the invasion led by De Gaulle which enabled the famous breakthrough at St Lo. After meeting De Gaulle nose to nose, he was returned to his unit where his buddies scrawled "Kilroy was here" wherever they went. Kilroy left the Army after the war to again see his beloved Red Sox at his favorite spot on the green monster.
If this story is not true, it should be.
I liked that one too. I thought it was funny. :)