[Curiosidad IIGM] - Kilroy was here

Te lo explico yo, un astillero de la costa oeste de eeuu, marcaba las piezas de los barcos, porque si no las marcaba no le pagaban por las piezas ensambladas. Los soldados americanos cuando eran transportados vieron la firma de KILROY k era komo se llamaba el hombre, y lo adoptaron como forma de decir por donde pasaban.

A grandes rasgos

One theory identifies James J. Kilroy, an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature. During World War II he worked at the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he claimed to have used the phrase to mark rivets he had checked. The builders, whose rivets J. J. Kilroy was counting, were paid depending on the number of rivets they put in. A riveter would make a chalk mark at the end of his or her shift to show where they had left off and the next riveter had started. Unscrupulous riveters discovered that, if they started work before the inspector arrived, they could receive extra pay by erasing the previous worker's chalk mark and chalking a mark farther back on the same seam, giving themselves credit for some of the previous riveter's work. J.J. Kilroy stopped this practice by writing "Kilroy was here" at the site of each chalk mark. At the time, ships were being sent out before they had been painted, so when sealed areas were opened for maintenance, soldiers found an unexplained name scrawled. Thousands of servicemen may have potentially seen his slogan on the outgoing ships and Kilroy's omnipresence and inscrutability sparked the legend. Afterwards, servicemen could have begun placing the slogan on different places and especially in new captured areas or landings. At some later point, the graffiti (Chad) and slogan (Kilroy was here) must have merged.

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muy interesante. conozco ese dibujo desde niño, pero no tenia ni idea de que tuviese historia alguna detrás.
la inmortalidad de una idea. me gusta.

De donde saque el texto: http://www.lacoctelera.com/pierrot/post/2005/09/16/kilroy-was-here-

Yo se lo he visto a una chica hoy en un bolso...y la historia me sonaba de algo y he indagado...aunque veo que equivocadamente

http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html

Ya salio la historia x aki en un post de curiosidades de la IIgm

la verdad es q es un caxondeo, hay varias de este tipo y me encantan xD

brutal, me imagino a los nazis todo rallados con el grafitti en sus bases.

#9 link al thread? no lo encuentro

yo lo vi en 1 documental y decia lo mismo que dice #3 el documental era bastante interesante si me acuerdo del nombre lo pongo, era del canal historia para los que tengais ono, seguramente lo volveran a echar dentro de poco