Long ago, about January 24, Joseph wrote:
> >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.

Hmm; I always thought it stood for m(ake the)r(emake) proper
ie, recompile properly if something got messed up.

But I like the Mister Clean better :)

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