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"Kilroy Was Here"
Oct 31, 2017 15:31:06   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texas. With Veteran's Day approaching, I thought I would put it up early for the WWII Vets.

HERE IS A BRUSH UP COURSE ON THE SAYING 'KILROY WAS HERE"

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, - back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known - but everybody seemed to get into it.

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American T***sit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.

Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first" As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were = the first GIs there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .

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Oct 31, 2017 16:02:22   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
slatten49 wrote:
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texas. With Veteran's Day approaching, I thought I would put it up early for the WWII Vets.

HERE IS A BRUSH UP COURSE ON THE SAYING 'KILROY WAS HERE"

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, - back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known - but everybody seemed to get into it.

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American T***sit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.

Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first" As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were = the first GIs there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .
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Confused our brass, and confused the hell out of our enemies.

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Oct 31, 2017 16:51:30   #
Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts
 
slatten49 wrote:
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texas. With Veteran's Day approaching, I thought I would put it up early for the WWII Vets.

HERE IS A BRUSH UP COURSE ON THE SAYING 'KILROY WAS HERE"

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, - back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known - but everybody seemed to get into it.

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American T***sit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.

Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first" As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were = the first GIs there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texa... (show quote)


I have a childhood story about this, no big deal, I’ll elaborate after trick or treating. Happy Halloween 🎃

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Oct 31, 2017 17:08:43   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Worried for our children wrote:
I have a childhood story about this, no big deal, I’ll elaborate after trick or treating. Happy Halloween 🎃

You gon'na put on your #12 jersey and dress as Tom Brady

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Oct 31, 2017 23:02:33   #
Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts
 
slatten49 wrote:
You gon'na put on your #12 jersey and dress as Tom Brady

Lol, no. I dressed up as a G.O.A.T. I thought about dressing up as #4 for the Texans, but I probably would have been egged due to his performance this past Sunday.

As a child growing up, I was always told that my maternal grandfather passed away before I was born, until recently when my sister-in-law came across a photo which she sent me. I will attach it at the bottom.

He was a frogman€ during the war, having the duty of disarming those nasty underwater mines. The stories I heard, he was one of the best. When he returned, his job was that of a b****smith and carpenter. In fact, he and a neighbor built the house my mother grew up in. Making sure he had a nice space in the basement to work. I remember when visiting my grandmother, always going down there to check out the cool tools he had, you name it, he probably had it. One time, I came upstairs to ask my grandmother what one thing in particular was. Turns out it was an old chalk line reel, which she told me I could keep. I ended up using it as my first fishing rod, more of drop line. I held on to it for most of my life, until it went missing when I sold my old house and moved to my new one. Whenever I would come up from that basement I would notice the words Kilroy was here scrawled on the underneath of the stairs. I asked my grandmother who Kilroy was, she told me it was a long story, and one for another time. I did not find out until I was a teenager, when my dad took me to the Quincy Shipyard. I thought it was an awesome story back then, and just wanted to thank you for the trip down memory lane.

He passed away not long after this photo.
He passed away not long after this photo....

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Nov 1, 2017 11:46:58   #
boatbob2
 
I remember seeing "kilroy was here" in Vietnam.. ( I looked for him,BUT,never found him) sly old fox that he was.............

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Nov 1, 2017 12:20:43   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
slatten49 wrote:
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texas. With Veteran's Day approaching, I thought I would put it up early for the WWII Vets.

HERE IS A BRUSH UP COURSE ON THE SAYING 'KILROY WAS HERE"

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, - back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known - but everybody seemed to get into it.

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American T***sit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.

Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first" As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were = the first GIs there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texa... (show quote)







Now that brings back memorys
Just after the Armistice was signed with Japan,my tug boat along with two troop ships from Okinawa ,sailed into the bay at Sasebo Japan
to my knowledge no American had set foot there before us.
There was a huge metal sided building just off the docks,and on the side of it in big red letters was this message
KILROY WAS HERE!!

thanks for post Slat

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Nov 1, 2017 22:45:42   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
badbobby wrote:
Now that brings back memorys
Just after the Armistice was signed with Japan,my tug boat along with two troop ships from Okinawa ,sailed into the bay at Sasebo Japan
to my knowledge no American had set foot there before us.
There was a huge metal sided building just off the docks,and on the side of it in big red letters was this message
KILROY WAS HERE!!

thanks for post Slat

I had been thinking, for some time, that you were the infamous 'Kilroy,' BB.

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Nov 2, 2017 01:10:01   #
Alicia Loc: NYC
 
slatten49 wrote:
This was sent to me by a friend in my part of Texas. With Veteran's Day approaching, I thought I would put it up early for the WWII Vets.

HERE IS A BRUSH UP COURSE ON THE SAYING 'KILROY WAS HERE"

He is engraved in stone in the National War Memorial in Washington, DC, - back in a small alcove where very few people have seen it. For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. No one knew why he was so well known - but everybody seemed to get into it.

So who was Kilroy?

In 1946 the American T***sit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

'Kilroy' was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark.

Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.

One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his check mark on each job he inspected, but added 'KILROY WAS HERE' in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message.

Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced

His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific.

Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first" As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest, the Statue of Liberty, the underside of the Arc de Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were = the first GIs there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!

In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy yard in Halifax, Massachusetts .
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Thanks, Slatt. To my knowledge, no one ever knew the real story but Kilroy appeared everywhere.

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Nov 2, 2017 07:42:27   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Worried for our children wrote:
Lol, no. I dressed up as a G.O.A.T. I thought about dressing up as #4 for the Texans, but I probably would have been egged due to his performance this past Sunday.

As a child growing up, I was always told that my maternal grandfather passed away before I was born, until recently when my sister-in-law came across a photo which she sent me. I will attach it at the bottom.

He was a frogman€ during the war, having the duty of disarming those nasty underwater mines. The stories I heard, he was one of the best. When he returned, his job was that of a b****smith and carpenter. In fact, he and a neighbor built the house my mother grew up in. Making sure he had a nice space in the basement to work. I remember when visiting my grandmother, always going down there to check out the cool tools he had, you name it, he probably had it. One time, I came upstairs to ask my grandmother what one thing in particular was. Turns out it was an old chalk line reel, which she told me I could keep. I ended up using it as my first fishing rod, more of drop line. I held on to it for most of my life, until it went missing when I sold my old house and moved to my new one. Whenever I would come up from that basement I would notice the words Kilroy was here scrawled on the underneath of the stairs. I asked my grandmother who Kilroy was, she told me it was a long story, and one for another time. I did not find out until I was a teenager, when my dad took me to the Quincy Shipyard. I thought it was an awesome story back then, and just wanted to thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Lol, no. I dressed up as a G.O.A.T. I thought abou... (show quote)


Some of my greatest memories coincide in time with my maternal grandfather. He was, quite probably, the greatest influence in my life. So, I appreciate your wonderful story, WFOC...thanks for sharing. One question: Facing the photo, you are the little critter on the right, yes

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Nov 2, 2017 13:40:23   #
Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts
 
slatten49 wrote:
Some of my greatest memories coincide in time with my maternal grandfather. He was, quite probably, the greatest influence in my life. So, I appreciate your wonderful story, WFOC...thanks for sharing. One question: Facing the photo, you are the little critter on the right, yes


Lol, yes. I wish I got to know him, my aunt always said I reminded her of him. I did get to know my paternal grandfather, he moved in with us during my early teenage years. Let’s just say I would’ve preferred to swap them out, he was a mean, grumpy, miserable man.

I had written a totally different reply for this originally, but it got all messed up after I attached the photo. I used a lot of contractions and quotation marks. For wh**ever reason, when I add a photo to my post, all the apostrophes and quotation marks get changed to this â... so it ended up looking horrible and almost unreadable, so I had to rewrite it without using any. I put the quoted words to italics. I think my original would’ve sounded better. After reading your post I was just flooded with old memories, and just wanted to thank you for that.

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Nov 2, 2017 14:41:20   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Worried for our children wrote:
Lol, yes. I wish I got to know him, my aunt always said I reminded her of him. I did get to know my paternal grandfather, he moved in with us during my early teenage years. Let’s just say I would’ve preferred to swap them out, he was a mean, grumpy, miserable man.

I had written a totally different reply for this originally, but it got all messed up after I attached the photo. I used a lot of contractions and quotation marks. For wh**ever reason, when I add a photo to my post, all the apostrophes and quotation marks get changed to this â... so it ended up looking horrible and almost unreadable, so I had to rewrite it without using any. I put the quoted words to italics. I think my original would’ve sounded better. After reading your post I was just flooded with old memories, and just wanted to thank you for that.
Lol, yes. I wish I got to know him, my aunt always... (show quote)

You're welcome. Sorry to read of your paternal grandfather as a curmudgeon. Kind'a like Loki, huh? I teasingly refer to him as OPP's resident curmudgeon. But of course, it is simply a term of endearment for our vocabulary Visigoth.

You should be thankful for not using contractions, as AuntiE h**es 'em, and probably would have chided you for it. For that very reason, I often flood comments to her on the forum or in PM's with them, just to irritate her. The more, the better.

BTW: http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-117354-2.html#2194565

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Nov 2, 2017 17:10:37   #
Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts
 
slatten49 wrote:
You're welcome. Sorry to read of your paternal grandfather as a curmudgeon. Kind'a like Loki, huh? I teasingly refer to him as OPP's resident curmudgeon. But of course, it is simply a term of endearment for our vocabulary Visigoth.

Curmudgeon!!! That’s the word I was looking for, but Loki couldn’t hold a candle to that guy. I don’t think Loki ever came home at 3 am in a drunken stupor and forced his children to get up and do yard work. That just happens to be one of the stories one of my uncles shared with me. It also happens to be one of the nicer ones. 🙄
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You should be thankful for not using contractions, as AuntiE h**es 'em, and probably would have chided you for it. For that very reason, I often flood comments to her on the forum or in PM's with them, just to irritate her. The more, the better.

Chide me!!! I know how much she h**es them, but I think I get a pass. I am, hers after all. 😁
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BTW: http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-117354-2.html#2194565

Oh my word!!! I knew you like to live on the edge, but, yikes!!! I think you may have too much confidence in that buffer zone.

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Nov 2, 2017 18:28:58   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Worried for our children wrote:
Oh my word!!! I knew you like to live on the edge, but, yikes!!! I think you may have too much confidence in that buffer zone.

Ya' think so

You'll probably get a pass, I guess, 'cause she has a predilection for younger men.

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