Talk:Chad (graffiti)

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• 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)

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)

Removed. Rich Farmbrough 10:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Do we have an image/example of Chad graffiti? -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:27, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

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)

Image It has just taken me five minutes to draw one (wot no picture). Any registered contributor could do the same and post it.82.38.97.206 21:34, 22 April 2006 (UTC)mikeL

I've added one I've spotted. // Liftarn

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)

[edit] Origin of Chad

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)