office of the lingo coroner
Certificate of
Linguistic Death
✠ filed in perpetuity ✠
⸻ Phrase of Record ⸻
“kilroy was here”
Almost nobody says this sincerely.
DECEASED
⸻ Status of Decedent ⸻
Dead
⸻ Peak Era ⸻
1940s
⸻ Cause of Death ⸻
A wartime in-joke that outlived its war by a generation, then stopped.
⸻ Confidence of Autopsy ⸻
68%
⸻ Meaning ⸻
Graffiti tag left to mark that someone had passed through.
⸻ Modern Translation ⸻
“First.”