Date:  Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:38:43 +0000
From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Okay....new topic.

I'm interested in the icon Jody uses:
> >
> >             \\|//
> >             ( 0-0 )
> >        -----.ooo0--(_)--0ooo.-----
> >        Joseph Charles Streible, Jr.
> >           ====> "Jody"
> >        jcstre01[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]morehead-st.edu
> >        Morehead State University
> >           .ooo0
> >        ------(  )-----0ooo.------
> >           \ (   (  )
> >            \_)   ) /
> >                (_/
> >

-- I have seen modifications of the familiar "Kilroy" figure recently
but without any connection to its past. I remember it from the post-war
years but after the '60s it virtually disappeared. Sen. McCarthy's poem
"Kilroy is Absent Without Leave in Vietnam" identifies the cause as
shame for America's role in the war. Questioning students who have
placed variants on their footers--as Jody has--I find that they have no
memory of its early use as the GI's pictogram for "I was here." Any
comments?
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