[Ads-l] Fw: More Precise Information on Antedating of "Kilroy"

[Jonathan Lighter]

My wife and I say "Nov shmoz kapop" all the time.

Well, maybe once a year.

Though saying it all the time might be OK too.

JL

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:30 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> I see that I posted about the "Kilroy" antedating in 2016.  The Texacts
> newspaper of Sheppard Field Army Air Forces base (near Wichita Falls,
> Texas) is on NewspaperArchive.  See below.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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> Subject: More Precise Information on Antedating of "Kilroy"
>
> Here's more precise antedating information:
>
> Kilroy (OED 1945 [20 Oct.])
>
> 1945 Sheppard Field Texacts (newspaper of Sheppard Field Army base, Texas)
> 21 Apr. 9/4 (NewspaperArchive)  Who is Kilroy?  What a one man campaign!
> He seems destined to go down in history along with Foo and Novschmozkapop
> as a family by word.
>
> 1945 Sheppard Field Texacts (newspaper of Sheppard Field Army base, Texas)
> 14 July 3/1 (NewspaperArchive)  If we knew the true identity of KILROY we
> would come right out and say so.  You have seen his name written in a
> variety of places -- mostly on walls.  He always states, with evident
> pride, that KILROY did this or that, or that "KILROY was here."
>
> Fred Shapiro
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