Up Yours Baby is a photograph by Weston Westmoreland which was uploaded on November 5th, 2014.
Up Yours Baby
Combination of Up Yours, Baby and Kilroy was here, as seen in Kelly's Heroes, found on a German Bunker wall in Normandy. The graffiti is recent, but... more
Title
Up Yours Baby
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph
Description
Combination of "Up Yours, Baby" and "Kilroy was here", as seen in Kelly's Heroes, found on a German Bunker wall in Normandy. The graffiti is recent, but the bunker was real and I love the movie, so I got me this souvenir.
"Kilroy was here" is an American expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive drawing of a bald man (sometimes with a few hairs) with a big nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching it � became associated with GIs in the 1940s.
In the UK, the graffiti is known as "Mr Chad" or "Chad". The Australian equivalent phrase is "Foo was here" and it might date from World War I. Chad may have derived from a British cartoonist in 1938, possibly pre-dating "Kilroy was here". Etymologist Dave Wilton says, "Sometime during the war, Chad and Kilroy met, and in the spirit of Allied unity merged, with the British drawing appearing over the American phrase."
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Uploaded
November 5th, 2014
Comments (1)
Pamela Blizzard
Fabulous description of this iconic graffiti! twt
Weston Westmoreland replied:
Thank you, Pamela. It was a funny find with a serious background story.
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