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Kilroy Was Here (Entry 687.EZ0810)

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In which a mysterious World War II inscription marries image and text to create the modern meme, and Ken does not think gangrenous limbs are a meme. Certificate #25622.

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0:00.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

0:07.0

We are receiving this message.

0:11.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

0:26.1

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the

0:46.4

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 687 dot EZ 0810, certificate number 25622. Killroy was here.

1:24.7

Why don't they write, Brown is here, Jones was there, anything.

1:30.0

You know, I wonder if anybody ever met up with a real?

1:34.4

No, you know there is no such character.

1:37.0

How much are you now finding yourself used as a meme? a sort of you know in your capacity as

1:45.6

Jeopardy host you see yourself maimified not that much here's the thing about

1:51.1

jeopardy which Alex Trebek believed and passed down to me as kind of sacred knowledge.

1:55.5

The host should have a mustache. The host should have a fro.

2:00.0

No, he said, well, he'd, I mean, I would put it this way.

2:03.7

If you notice what the host of Jeopardy is doing,

2:07.3

something is wrong on Jeopardy.

2:09.8

You know what I mean?

2:10.8

Alex was always like, the reason why Art Fleming was announced

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