From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:28:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:27:54 -0500 Received: from grunt.ksu.ksu.edu ([129.130.12.17]:4586 "EHLO mailhub.cns.ksu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:27:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:27:38 -0600 From: Joseph Pingenot To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make mrproper Message-ID: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> Reply-To: jap3003+response@ksu.edu Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: RE: [make mrproper] X-School: Kansas State University X-vi-or-emacs: vi Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From John Levon on Wednesday, 24 January, 2001: >Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper >stand for ? My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though. It's been a while since I've seen the commercials. I dunno if it's Finnish, though. Never been there. Maybe it was put in by a German developer. Maybe not. It was there when I started. -Joseph -- Joseph==============================================jap3003@ksu.edu "I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if a significant plot line suddenly cried out in terror... and was suddenly silenced." -Torg in "Sluggy Freelance" www.sluggy.com. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/