Re: make mrproper

Thunder from the hill (thunder@ngforever.de)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:33:09 -0700

Ville Herva wrote:
>
> 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').
I wouldn't call all clean things proper, and I would really not call all
proper things clean. That's one thing I learned in europe.

Thunder

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