From: Ville Herva <vherva@mail.niksula.cs.hut.fi>
To: James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: make mrproper
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:02:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010125180240.A1002@niksula.cs.hut.fi> (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, you [James Lewis Nance] claimed:
>
> ( mrproper == Mr. Proper )
>
> I saw a post from Linus once about this. It is Finnish for "Mr. Clean".
Just to be sure: 'proper' does not mean anything in Finnish (nor Swedish
for that matter AFAIK) it just the European(?) product name for 'Mr
Clean'. Possibly it's from German ('proper' = 'clean').
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 16:27 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
2001-01-25 16:02 ` Ville Herva [this message]
2001-01-25 17:10 ` [OFFTOPIC] " 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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