Talk:Chad (graffiti)

message: * Personaly, I feel that Chad has enough historcal and cultural seperation to qualify for an entry. Perhaps if he was only the (optional) graphical accompanyment to the phrase "Kilroy was here", or even if he was US in origin, but he came into being in the UK, with a different textual accompaniment. As Chad clearly predates Kilroy, perhaps Kilroy should be merged under Chad... Alex Law 03:40, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Chad preoccurred, had a seperate historical "identity" ("wot no..."), and then got swallowed by Kilroy; it's still a seperate and distinguishable thing. I hadn't even noticed the merge request, and there's nothing mentioned on Kilroy was here... it's been up for three weeks, I reckon we can remove it. Shimgray 11:33, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. Rich Farmbrough 10:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Revelence

message: Do we have an image/example of Chad graffiti? fuck -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:27, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I spotted one in the wild last week, on a church in central Oxford, but unfortunately someone had got to it with a bucket of water beforehand - it was too faded to be worth trying to take a picture of. There must be a freeish old one on the net somewhere, though... Shimgray | talk | 18:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I took out the picture of Kilroy at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. because it is clearly labeled (quite literally written in stone, no less) a picture of Kilroy.  If Chad and Kilroy are different enough to merit separate articles on Wikipedia they merit separate pictures as well.  It also seems a bit silly to have three examples of a doodle that do not differ that much from each other.  --Ddawn23 09:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: From an early age I have understood the Chad cartoon to be a piece of blackboard humour. (My father was a physics lecturer).
I believe the original to be a diagram of the addition of a fundamental half wave and its third harmonic, starting in-phase at the left. Where the two reinforce there is a plus sign which become the eyes. where they counteract there is a minus sign which becomes a mark near the tip of the nose. At some point the teacher asks 'what happens here', pointing at the peak of the fundamental, and adds a question mark which becomes a hair. After class someone rubs out the horizontal axis through the 'nose', adds a few crosses to indicate bricks, adds 'Wot - no ...', and we have Chad.
The earliest I saw in the early fifties had the plus, minus and question marks. One funfair slot machine had Chad on the backplate exactly as I have described, with a catchline similar to 'Wot - no losers' indicating that all the ball pockets were 'Win'. They were old games machines  back then.
 Davidgl 09:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember reading in a book on militairy slang that it was originally drawn using electrotechnical symbols. I'll see if I can find a reference.SQB 11:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Chad 

message: This lot just got added to the main article - I'm not entirely sure about it, so I've put it here for comments rather than remove it totally. Anyone? Shimgray | talk | 00:36, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian origin 

message: No source for this as it's simply personal recollection, but... I'm only in my 30s, and I remember a craze for drawing "Chads" at school in Worcestershire. We had no idea why they were called that, but Chads they were. (The word "Kilroy" wasn't used at all in connection with them.) 86.136.248.127 (talk) 04:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I am in my thirties too, growing up in Middlesex.  I remember seeing graffiti Chads all over the place in the '80s and etched into school tables.  I never understood what they were until fifteen minutes ago.  Jason404 (talk) 15:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note 

message: I was told an anecdote by someone older than me earlier. He believes Chad was originally used by some member of the armed forces to mark storage crates (for inventory checks), perhaps in lieu of a signature and it was seen and copied in doodles. Has anyone else heard anything like this? 90.206.206.20 (talk) 03:43, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Origin? -- Inventory Marking