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	snopes.com: Etymology of Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war.
		Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice.
		It instead gives the impetus for his adding handwritten "Kilroy was here" attestations to areas he had examined as an expression of his growing sense of frustration with bosses who would not believe he had checked over their subordinates' work areas.
	www.snopes.com /language/phrases/kilroy.asp (1297 words)

	Kilroy was here - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression, often seen in graffiti.
		Kilroy, according to this theory, actually means "kill roi" (roi is the French word for king); king and father are identical, so Kilroy is an expression of the Oedipal urge to kill one's father.
		Kilroy is here appears on a military truck in Patton, a biographical film about General George Patton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kilroy_was_here (1220 words)

	WW II Encyclopedia -- Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker from Halifax, Massachusetts and, during the war, he worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in nearby Quincy.
		Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice.
		As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.
	www.skylighters.org /encyclopedia/kilroy.html (657 words)

	Kilroy Was Here (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kilroy Was Here is an rock opera/concept album by the rock band Styx.
		"Kilroy" was conceived by lead singer Dennis DeYoung as both an album and an accompanying stage show.
		While the tour was a financial disaster, the album was a top seller for the band peaking at #3 in the US and went Platinum and sold close to 2.5 million copies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here_(album) (170 words)

	Kilroy was here - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		"Kilroy was here" is a symbol of Jewish revenge.
		Kilroy Hitler was the führer of the Nazi party.
		Whenever they find a place where Kilroy used to stay, they mark the place with "Kilroy was here" with a piece of German-made chalk.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Kilroy_was_here (328 words)

	WWII's Kilroy Was Here , The inside info on how the legend started
		Kilroy was an inspector in a factory in Braintree, Massachusetts.
		Kilroy took out a rivet, his good-luck charm, from his pocket and engraved with it on the table, "Kilroy was here." Above the notation, an illustration of the cute jocular fairy was also carved.
		Kilroy was shown on a beam under a band stand which was obviously built on the water.
	www.kilroywashere.org /001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html (5310 words)

	Kilroy was here - The Boston Globe
		He took to scribbling ''Kilroy Was Here" in crayon or paint next to the rivets he inspected, to prevent workers from cheating and taking credit twice for the same work.
		As sailors across the world began to see the words ''Kilroy Was Here" peppered across the walls of their ships, the words took on the power of a talisman, protecting them from torpedoes and typhoons.
		Condon said the goal of the ''Kilroy Was Here" campaign is to preserve the phrase and to lead people back to Quincy and the role the city played during the war.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/05/12/kilroy_was_here (1074 words)

	Kilroy was here: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kilroy was here is an rock opera/concept album by the rock band styx (band)styx....
		Kilroy was here is an American[For more info, click on this link] popular culture popular culture quick summary:
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	Kilroy was here (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kilroy's real identity is a bit sketchy, although there were 62 people in the Army with the name of Kilroy, a likely originator may have been James J. Kilroy, a shipyard inspector from Massachusetts.
		The young James Kilroy was working on the dock of a Boston harbor in the 1940's, loading the freight ships of the time with big crates filled with blue jeans, destined for the far reaches of the world.
		Once Kilroy discovered what the riveters were doing, along with his chalk check mark he would put in large crayoned letters, "Kilroy was Here." The riveters from then on quit wiping out his chalk marks.
	www.ostrichbay.com /raft/past/august99/kilroy.htm (1261 words)

	Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy checked and recorded the number of rivets that were driven by workers who got paid by the number of rivets placed.
		At first, Kilroy would count a block of rivets and use a chalk check mark to indicate that block had been checked so the the rivets wouldn't be counted twice.
		Kilroy's boss noticed that riveters were getting paid a lot and wanted Kilroy to find out what was going on.
	ops.tamu.edu /kilroy/Bio/kilroy2.html (452 words)

	Kilroy was here
		The Kilroy was here graffito was extremely common during the latter part of WWII and into the 1950s and amounted to something of a craze - with it turning up in obscure locations all around the world.
		Francis J. Kilroy, Jr., of Everett, early in the war wrote on a barracks bulletin board at Boca Raton Army air field in Florida: "Kilroy will be here next week." Kilroy was ill with flu at the time.
		Later the catchy phrase was picked up by other airmen who changed it to: "Kilroy was here," and scribbled it on air force station walls.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/219500.html (475 words)

	Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy, however, was still putting on forbidden rock concerts with his band for their loyal fans who opposed the oppressive ways of the devious Righteous.
		Unfortunately, Righteous eventually arrested Kilroy by making it appear that he (Kilroy) had ruthlessly murdered a member of the MMM by beating him with a guitar in front of the thousands of “rebellious” rock n’ roll fans who watched while this indecent act was being done.
		During Kilroy’s journey to safety, he leaves behind him a path of “rock code” which Jonathan later deciphers and finds that it leads him to the old Paradise Theatre where Righteous has set up a museum which depicts rock n’ roll as a vile disease.
	members.tripod.com /~Man_of_Miracles/KWH.html (562 words)

	Kilroy was here: Playwright brings his 'Henry' to PICT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kilroy had just received a letter from Rea saying how sorry he is not to be involved, which reminded him of the Equity hurdles.
		Kilroy has had a separate but related career as an influential teacher of literature, first at University College Dublin and then at the National University of Ireland in Galway, where he is now an emeritus professor, having taken early retirement.
		Kilroy, Friel and such other leading playwrights as Tom Murphy constitute a cultural generation for whom Kilroy has been a kind of spokesman, as in his influential 1992 essay, "A Generation of Playwrights," which recalled the repressive Ireland of church and state in which they grew up.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05240/560117.stm (1444 words)

	"Kilroy Was Here"
		Kilroy was a favorite graffiti symbol for American servicemen during World War II.
		By 1945, Kilroy's name was as familiar throughout Europe as that of the world leaders'.
		To mark the tanks, ships, and planes he had inspected, he would chalk "Kilroy was here" on each of them.
	library.thinkquest.org /3205/gather/U960825.001359.html (170 words)

	USS Salem CA-139 - Kilroy Was Here Essay Contest
		He would count the amount of rivets done by various crews and then leave scribbled in bright yellow chalk the words, “Kilroy Was Here” on the steel.
		By writing, “Kilroy Was Here” Jim Kilroy was proving to his bosses that he was on the job.
		Kilroy a prize of a 22 ton streetcar which Kilroy placed in his yard and converted into sleeping quarters for his children
	www.uss-salem.org /museum/events/kilroy_was_here_essay_contest.htm (517 words)

	Kilroy Was Here - The Bad Fads Museum
		It also provided a great deal of mystery about who Kilroy was and how he got to so many areas of the war before anyone else.
		Kilroy was not the only one of his kind during World War II.
		Kilroy explained that as a part of his work, he would write the phrase "Kilroy was here" on the wall of any area he inspected in order to let others know that it had already been inspected.
	www.badfads.com /pages/activities/kilroy.html (274 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Kilroy Was Here
		That James J Kilroy was the originator of 'Kilroy was here' is currently the most commonly believed explanation for the phenomenon.
		In England, the Kilroy logo was known as Chad and his slogan consisted of 'Wot no...?' The blank was usually filled in with whatever there was a shortage of or whatever was being rationed at the time.
		Though the James J Kilroy story seems to be the most likely point of origin for the 'Kilroy was here' legend, there is possible evidence of occurrences of the Kilroy logo much earlier than World War II.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A508277 (896 words)

	Kilroy Was Here
		One adventure Kilroy did truly live was diving down 2,000 feet into a central Pennsylvania coal mine while filming Hard Coal with Marc Brodzik.
		Kilroy's been in charge of sound on many of Brodzik's projects—location recording, producing music and scores, editing and mixing the films themselves—since they befriended each other a decade ago.
		Kilroy sees this record as a love letter to his friends who never made it back.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2006-04-20/music.shtml (630 words)

	Kilroy Was Here
		The Legend of Kilroy was started inadvertently by a shipyard inspector during WWII named James J. Kilroy, who used the logo to indicate his inspection of riveting in the newly constructed troop ships was complete.
		It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable: it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, and the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arch De Triumphe, and scrawled in the dust on the moon.
		A few photographs of Kilroy have recently been declassified, and are presented here.
	www.kilroy.cx /photos/KilroyWasHere (227 words)

	SHS Drama Club Presents Kilroy Was Here
		Gladys Brooks, a riveter at the shipyard becomes interested in Kilroy and convinces her friends to volunteer at the USO so they can be closer to the boys.
		The musical Kilroy Was Here, was put on by the SHS Drama Club on April 5, 2003.
		Kilroy lifts USO volunteer Hazel Merrill, at the end of the jitterbug number.
	webserver.sandusky.k12.mi.us /features_03/kilroy.htm (642 words)

	Press Room-Kilroy Was Here!
		The contest - the theme of which is "What 'Kilroy Was Here' Means to Me" - has three age divisions: children in grades 4-7 and 8-12, as well as an open division for adults.
		The Kilroy committee plans to launch a campaign to ask the Secretary of the Navy to name a ship the USS Kilroy Was Here.
		Kilroy will be featured at a special May 15 celebration marking both the anniversary of the Salem's commissioning as well as the 10th anniversary of the ship's opening as a museum.
	www.discoverquincy.com /Press_KilroyContest.htm (589 words)

	Wordorigins.org: Letter K (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kilroy was a mysterious World War II soldier, probably American, who traveled all over the world scrawling the immortal phrase Kilroy was here wherever a flat surface presented itself.
		Kilroy was an inspector at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in that city, and used a yellow crayon to write Kilroy was here on items that he had inspected.
		A Sergeant Francis Kilroy of the US Army Air Transport Command who scrawled the immortal phrase on boxes that were to be shipped abroad.
	www.wordorigins.org /wordork.htm (2087 words)

	IdiomSite.com - Kilroy was here
		Kilroy was actually a goods inspector for the army and that was his signature way of marking something as "inspected."
		His job was to count rivets, he counted thousands a day, in order to keep track of what he had counted and so they would not be counted again by another person he would write Kilroy was here.
		Now later on when these ships were full of men headed for war, they found that Kilroy had already been there, it made them feel better that they weren't the first, Kilroy had gone on ahead.
	www.idiomsite.com /kilroywashere.htm (159 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy of Quincey, Massachusetts used the slogan "Kilroy was here" to mark products he had tested and approved.
		"Kilroy was here" is extremely well suited for the transmission phase, where it is encoded in a graffiti vector.
		The Kilroy writers became invisible, even before each other, so that the meme seemed to live its own life mysteriously reproducing on the walls and the writers themselves could feel as privileged members of a mysterious brotherhood.
	fusionanomaly.net /kilroywashere.html (1201 words)

	Kilroy Was Here
		From humble origins, "Kilroy was here" has appeared in many unusual places, even written in moon dust and everywhere in between.
		It has passed down through the generations like the path of knowledge and experience is passed from the aged to the young and has become a symbol of "I was here and this is my mark".
		Our "Kilroy" brand reflects this ethos; the new taking on the knowledge of the old and the heritage of times past, treading the path of those who came before us.
	www.kilroywasherewines.com /who_is_kilroy.htm (126 words)

	Springfield Sports Bar Restaurant Woodbridge Seafood - Kilroys Restaurant - large restaurant, lounge decorated in ...
		Quite a few Korean War vets saw it and some Vietnam vets went through the "Kilroy was here" episode.
		Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker from Halifax, Massachusetts and during the war, worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy.
		As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troop ships the yard produced.
	www.kilroys.com /kilroy_story.htm (457 words)

	What's the origin of "Kilroy was here"? [Free Republic]
		In many of them, my dad signs out as "Kilroy" or writes "Kilroy was here" and in some of the letters he includes a little drawing of Kilroy.
		I was born in 1940 & Kilroy was everwhere.
		"Kilroy was here" was in a lot of places but was almost always just writing without the smoe.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a9d77b57bab.htm (2712 words)

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	Kilroy Was Here
		Kilroy Was Here is driven by the same energy and emotional honesty which pervades the recordings and live shows of Black 47.
		“Kilroy was Here” depicts the lonely, transient state of any World War II serviceman on leave, in search of a little companionship: the man who did not want to spend his furlough in some crowded, noisy bar.
		The arrangements on Kilroy are sparse and atmospheric, with spooky reverbed guitars, trumpets and violins bracketing the gentle strum of an acoustic guitar.
	www.black47.com /kilroy/rev.htm (6034 words)

	"Kilroy Was Here!" by Lamar Stonecypher
		He wrote the phrase "Kilroy was here" to indicate that he had been aboard and inspected the riveting and bulkheads.
		The judges were convinced, and the trolley car was awarded to be installed on Kilroy's front lawn as a playhouse for his nine children.
		I was told a long, long time ago, that one of Kilroy's supervisors acquised him of being lazy; that he didn't inspect the shipments he claimed to.
	www.kudzumonthly.com /kudzu/jul01/kilroy.html (1760 words)

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