RK05 stuff (was RE: cctalk Digest, Vol 10, Issue 74)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Jun 29 23:44:09 2004

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Antonio Carlini wrote:

> > [2] I believe thrre is a St Chad.
>
> Unless my school and the cathedral in Birmingham (UK)
> both erred, then there certainly is.
>
> > And there's certainly a place in
> > England called Hackforth. AFAIK the 2 have no connection, but
> > the names
> > have obvious meanings to old computer hackers.
>
> Indeed. Although when I was in school (UK school,
> not US university) Chad was that little head
> and fingers of each hand that peeped over a
> brick wall.

Here in the colonies, IIRC, he was named "Kilroy". Rather
popular around the time of WWII.

                                                - don

> It may also have been something to do with some
> drinking straws promotion that someone connected
> with the milk industry ran for a while.
>
>
> Antonio
>
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> Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
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