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on 13-11-2013 08:03 PM
I wonder what Kilroy, another long-standing poster who hasn't been seen for ages, is doing these days?
Here's the story of the first Kilroy:
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on 14-11-2013 11:31 AM
No the snopes one doesn't reiterate all the points in your op.
It starts with an exact copy of what you have in the opening post (an email version), and below that it covers the points were there are discrepancies with the original account.
No matter what way you look at it, Mr Kilroy did not add that drawing under his signature. The drawing originated in the UK before he started signing the ships.
Both links state Mr Kilroy used the prize added onto his house for accommodation for 6 of his 9 kids, not used as some novelty in the garden.
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on 14-11-2013 01:18 PM
@icyfroth wrote:yes I read the links.
The wiki one is full of may be's, thought to be's and attributed to's.
the snopes one simple re-iterates what it says in my OP.
It also says " Status = undetermined." but in the end, does it really matter? Kilroy almost certainly was a real person, and whether or no he 'stole' Mr Chad's drawing, he was the one who ultimately made it famous.
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14-11-2013 07:30 PM - edited 14-11-2013 07:33 PM
Actually it was the servicemen who matched the saying with the drawing, and made it famous by leaving it in all sorts of places all around the world.
You would be happy, she-ele, if someone took a phrase/sentence from one of your books and claimed it as their own? (Not that Mr Kilroy did that, the story has just grown to incorporate the drawing as his).


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