hab zwar nix, aber dazu ne Story, weil ich neugierig war, wer denn dieser Kilroy ist:
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.
