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Wandering around a museum today I came across this.....

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Mehnirs or standing stones from the Neolithic period were used for many reasons ceremonial, religious (think Stonehenge) but usually to mark territory. As the notice says the carving represents a cross but the significance of these objects remain enigmatic.
Now Neanderthals were hunters and cave dwellers, so my mind immediately turned to an interesting alternative to what is depicted. I wonder if payneed payneed thinks the same as me? And if so ...........?
 
Egg zakerly, so did French cavemen invent the killing stick, if so that is really going to piss off the Aboriginals.

PS That Kilroy bloke really gets around?

Are you posting from your castle? There is an echo. :)
I'm guessing IF (big if) the French invented it the Aborigine PERFECTED it. One Aborigine against 100 French, my money is on the loin cloth!!!
I remember as a kid (maybe 5) seeing Kilroy in a movie me and my brother got in HUGE trouble for writing that drawing all over the place.
No idea (the dirty dozen maybe?) what the movie was...
 
WOW! ODT is educational, again...:)
I wasn't born until 1958 so still not sure of what movie got me in trouble. :)

Kilroy was here is an American meme that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle – bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall – became associated with GIs in the 1940s.

"Kilroy" was the American equivalent of the Australian Foo was here, which originated during World War I and later became popular amongst schoolchildren.

"Mr Chad" or just "Chad", was the version that became popular in the United Kingdom. The character of Chad may have derived from a British cartoonist in 1938, possibly pre-dating "Kilroy was here".

Etymologist Dave Wilton says, "Some time during the war, Chad and Kilroy met, and in the spirit of Allied unity merged, with the British drawing appearing over the American phrase."[1] Other names for the character include Smoe, Clem, Flywheel, Private Snoops, Overby, The Jeep (as both characters had sizable noses), and Sapo.

Author Charles Panati says that in the United States "the mischievous face and the phrase became a national joke... The outrageousness of the graffiti was not so much what it said, but where it turned up."[2] The major Kilroy graffiti fad ended in the 1950s, but today people all over the world still scribble the character and "Kilroy was here" in schools, trains, and other public areas.

It is believed that James J. Kilroy was the origin of the expression, as he used the phrase when checking ships at the Fore River Shipyard in Massachusetts during WWII
 
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