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Titel: Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: fritandr am 22.10.02 - 14:44:30
Hallo,

ich suche ein Datenbankicon. Viele kennen den Spruch "kilroy was here" und das damit verbundene Icon. Hat das zufällig jemand von Euch als DB Symbol.
Habe schon meine Icon-DB durchsucht und leider nichts gefunden.

Viele Grüße
Andreas
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: Rob Green am 22.10.02 - 15:37:19
hab zwar nix, aber dazu ne Story, weil ich neugierig war, wer denn dieser Kilroy ist:

(http://www.gw0hqd.clara.net/friends/chronicle/chronicle11/image13.gif)

There seem to be plenty of legends about Kilroy, but probably the most plausible one is that James J.Kilroy was a shipyard inspector during W.W.II, and that it was his job to inspect the number of rivets in a ship. The workers were paid by the number of rivets completed. The inspector would place a chalk mark near to counted rivets, but some dishonest workers rubbed the chalk mark out, and were paid twice for the same work.

James J.Kilroy got around this dishonest practise, by writing "Kilroy Was Here" in crayon, which couldn’t easily be rubbed out.

To the American GI’s who travelled on those ships, it was a complete mystery — all they knew was that Kilroy had been there first. The GI’s began drawing the graffiti wherever they went, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the US super-GI who always got there first — wherever GI's went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places. Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arch de Triumph, and even the dust on the moon were said to have been visited by Kilroy.

Kilroy was American, but the little chap peeping over the wall was almost certainly British, and called "Chad". Chad often had a bubble containing the words "Wot, No….." which was completed with whatever happened to be in short supply at the time.

Somehow Kilroy and Chad became united, and so Chad would either proclaim that Kilroy had been there, or exclaim "Wot, no…."

Kilroy / Chad seemed to become less popular as graffiti in the mid 1950’s.
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: gulp am 22.10.02 - 16:18:16
Vielleicht nützt es dir was.
lg
gulp
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: eknori am 22.10.02 - 16:21:33
ich finde es geschmacklos.... kein weiterer Kommentar

eknori :( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: Rob Green am 22.10.02 - 16:37:13
der Typ auf dem Bild ist geschmacklos, aber nicht das Sig als solches..es ist eben das Kilroy Sig... ::)

(http://www.wtctourist.com/102401/kilroy.jpg)
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: fritandr am 22.10.02 - 21:54:27
Hallo Ulrich,

ich finde es geschmacklos.... kein weiterer Kommentar

Sorry, das verstehe ich nicht!!!
Das könnte natürlich daher kommen, daß ich keinen Hintergrund über das Thema habe. Das einzige, was ich weiß ist, daß man bei einem meiner Kunden ein Projekt namens Kilroy aus dem Boden gestampft hat und nun ein entsprechendes DB Symbol zugeordnet werden soll.

Wenn Du im Forum keinen weiteren Kommentar abgeben willst, kannst Du mir ja vielleicht einige Deiner Gedanken zumailen??

Ciao
Andreas
Titel: Re:Kilroy was here - Icon ???
Beitrag von: woh am 22.10.02 - 22:22:39
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