| Revision as of 11:22, 25 December 2009 edit120.147.68.21 (talk) →Origins← Previous edit | Revision as of 16:18, 13 June 2010 edit undoFences and windows (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Administrators50,401 edits Merged to Kilroy was hereNext edit → | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| ⚫ | #REDIRECT ] {{r from merge}} | ||
| {{Refimprove|date=September 2007}} | |||
| ] | |||
| '''"Foo was here"''' is an Australian ] signature of ], especially known for its use during ], but also became popular amongst Australian schoolchildren of post-war generations. | |||
| Foo is shown as a bald headed man (sometimes depicted with a few hairs) peering over a wall (usually with the fingers of both hands appearing to clutch over the wall as well), with the simple inscription "Foo was here". | |||
| == Origins == | |||
| While its exact origins are unknown, the "Foo was here" graffiti is said to have been widely used by Australians during ] and was later also widely used during World War II. | |||
| One source says of Foo that "He was chalked on the side of railway carriages, appeared in probably every camp that the 1st AIF World War I served in and generally made his presence felt"<ref>http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-help/faq6.htm</ref>. If this is the case, then "Foo was here" pre-dates the American version of World War II, "]", by about twenty years. | |||
| It has been claimed that Foo probably came from the ] for ], but this is likely to be a ].<Ref>http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html</ref> | |||
| <br />Other sources suggest that FOO was a man that was inspecting the welds in submarines. He had to crawl inside small spaces to do this, his superiors were wondering if he was doing his job so everywhere that Foo went he would write "FOO was here", this has been found on the wreckage of many subs and ships. This trend soon caught on. | |||
| == See also == | |||
| ⚫ | |||
| * ] | |||
| == References == | |||
| {{reflist}} | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | ] | ||
Revision as of 16:18, 13 June 2010
Redirect to:
- From a merge: This is a redirect from a page that was merged into another page. This redirect was kept in order to preserve the edit history of this page after its content was merged into the content of the target page. Please do not remove the tag that generates this text (unless the need to recreate content on this page has been demonstrated) or delete this page.
- For redirects with substantive page histories that did not result from page merges use {{R with history}} instead.