The more well learned soldiers still pull this. I've seen him in the engine bay of a Bradley, the concrete on the roof of Korean sky scrapers and in the Korean countryside on fence post, latrines, under bar tables, even hiked off trail on leave and found an old carving on a rock in the whitetank mountains
It's the end of the universe. The stars are all dead, and the black holes are decaying. In a few more minutes, all the energy in existence will have dissipated, and nothing will ever happen again. In these final moments, there is a single brick floating in the void. Kilroy was here.
I cant type their name. RU-vid automatically deletes my comment if i type their name anywhere in my comment. Im not joking. I have tried a million variations, thats crazy how the rules dont apply evenly huh.. i can literally just type "X was very evil" and it will be deleted. But this comment will not.
@@MIersetting335 that’s what would make him unique. He doesn’t actually exist and doesn’t actually have any powers but a J class. That doesn’t actually have a number. Nor is he actually an SCP. He’s just a joke among guards
I've never heard of Kilroy or seen the drawing but we used to write "'I waz ere" or " Sally was ere" "Billy was ere" etc, so i find this actually fascinating
@Gaz Coleman this is the 2nd time I've heard of that channel since yesterday. The first time was on reddit. I'll take this as a sign and watch the video you linked.
The Trend is still going, and I can tell you for certain it lives on in the military. I worked with a Vietnam vet who drew Kilroy, and sometimes it would say "Kilroy was here" but other times he'd call me out directly by saying "Hi *name*" and have Kilroy waving. The guys in the shop made a game out of misdirecting me, because I kept trying to figure out who was leaving these drawings everywhere, and they'd all keep their stories consistent, but everybody was pointing the finger at someone else. This was all as recently as 2014, Good times.
@@killerkraut9179 Those medieval illuminated manuscripts had some funny things in the margin. (I don't know if margin is the right term btw but I think you know what I mean.)
I cannot believe I used to draw him back when I was a kid. The first time I saw Kilroy was in a McDonalds play area. I was in one of the highest tubes and there he was. No name, just the picture. I named him peeping Tom but now I know his real name! This is insane!
I can imagine a posible scenario when a KGB agent whent to the bathroom and inmediatly sent a nation wide red code after seeing a "Kilroy was here" doodle.
I used to draw the meme when I was in high school during the 1960s. Now that I'm laying the groundwork for a comedy about an American avoiding Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island, I think I'll have him stumble across a "Kilroy was Here" meme. Thanks for giving me the idea.
I think somewhere it's written that the snails are actually a derogative interpretation of a certain culture? But I completely forget. Basically, they're insulting somebody by calling them and drawing them like snails
The Move,( who,after personnel changes became ELO,) cut " Kilroy Was Here" in 1968. The song was humorous and asked why the name appears but the track itself doesn't rock as does the vast majority of their work. Glad to see this cuz I really didn't know the origin of the phrase. Mr. Chad? Hysterical given the times now!
I've been wondering about this for a while and I'm so glad to finally understand it. When my grandad died I inherited a box full of old photographs that he took during his tour of duty during WW2. One of them was a picture of him peeking over the top of some sort of concrete structure with his hands on the wall either side of his head and someone had chalked the words 'Wot, No Water?' on the wall. I had no idea what this bizarre image meant and I no longer had the chance to ask my grandad. Thank you for posting this video.
Wow, I remember back in the 70's Kilroy was here, was a big thing when I was a kid. My step mom did ceramics and she would let us pick n paint and Kilroy was one that I painted, and I had him sitting anywhere I wanted hanging off the edge of something. Interesting history, I thought it was just a 70's icon.
In the 70s this was in public restrooms ,we traveled from California to Boston & I think it was in just about every dinner & rest stop along the way. Dad was 20 year retired military so he had explained the meaning of it to us. I haven't seen Kilroy in years ,but avoid public restroom s as much as possible.
Until I saw this video I had not thought about it in years but as the other guy said by the 1970s when I was also a kid, it was literally everywhere in the UK as well. I doubt there is anyone from that time that didn't at least doodle it somewhere. Pretty much every bathroom. But like modern memes it eventually became so overused that no one did it any more. I didn't know the history, although I knew that it had something to do with the war. Pre-internet a meme clearly lasted decades rather than weeks.
This kid in 5th grade told me he invented the S, I totally believed him. He also told me that Captain Morgan was his grandfather so I guess I'm a sucker
@@lopanreturns7085 there's this guy called Mr T, and his catchphrase is "I pity the fool who (insert regrettable action)", but he doesn't really pronounce the L in "fool", hence "I pity the foo".
I had forgotten about these. My grandpa told me about this going around in his day, back in the 30s, 40s, 50s. I think I even wrote it on a few bathroom stalls. Great upload.
Kilroy will never die, because he can't die. Kilroy isn't a person, it an idea. Anyone can be Kilroy; you, me, your grandfather, etc. Kilroy will live on forever.
Yes. The “SATOR” square. It’s said to be an early Christian, or perhaps a mystical Jewish or Mithraic graffito. The square is made by stacking the interlocking words of SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS There’s a really interesting rabbit-hole of mystery to explore involved in its history, but I’m really leery of anyone who claims to know it with certainty.
Don't forget how it worked into music as well. Styx had a song 'Mr. Roboto'. At the end Dennis Deyoung claimed that he was Kilroy. Hawkeye also wrote 'Kilroy' on the window of the Bus under BJs fingers and face sticking up over the glass on an episode of MASH
My favorite meme is the "One does not simply....." Kilroy pops up in the end lyrics of the song Mr. Roboto, by the rock band Styx: "I'm Kilroy. I'm Kilroy." My personal fan theory: The character Wilson on the sitcom Home Improvement just may have been the show's own version of Kilroy. Wilson was usually seen peering over a fence, with just his eyes and nose visible.
THIS IS A MEME- wow. My father used to draw me this exact picture years ago when I was younger. I NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A THING- I am baffled. This honestly takes me back to when I was little. before I had knowledge of what the internet even was, before I had to worry about anything. To a time where I just wanted to draw with my father.
