From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make mrproper
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:21:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010125162145.C25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101241718460.10965-100000@mrworry.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> <20010124173302.A8027@marvin> <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org>; from jlnance@intrex.net on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:00:26AM -0500, James Lewis Nance wrote:
> 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 ?
It does refer to Procter&Gamble household cleaning product
titled "Mr Proper", which apparently more recently has been
renamed as "Mr Clean". (Or who knows how international companies
decide on what to call the products where...)
A semi-joke which may or may not make sense to people depending
on if they have seen the adverts that at least Finns have seen..
(I guess it was american advertisement dubbed into finnish.)
"'make clean' is simple soap wash, 'make mrproper' cleans also
tougher stains by using stronger solvents; user is advised to
protect themselves."
/Matti Aarnio
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 14:22 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
2001-01-25 14:21 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
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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