From: James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make mrproper
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:00:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101241718460.10965-100000@mrworry.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> <20010124173302.A8027@marvin>
In-Reply-To: <20010124173302.A8027@marvin>; from leo.howell@ntlworld.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +0000
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +0000, leo.howell@ntlworld.com wrote:
> 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 :)
I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean".
Jim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-24 17:19 John Levon
2001-01-24 17:27 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-01-24 17:33 ` leo.howell
2001-01-25 14:00 ` James Lewis Nance [this message]
2001-01-25 14:21 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-25 16:02 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Ville Herva
2001-01-25 17:10 ` Petr Baudis
2001-01-25 20:33 ` Thunder from the hill
2001-01-25 14:54 ` David Relson
2001-01-25 18:33 ` Thunder from the hill
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