From: leo.howell@ntlworld.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make mrproper
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010124173302.A8027@marvin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101241718460.10965-100000@mrworry.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu>; from jap3003@ksu.edu on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:27:38AM -0600
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-24 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-24 17:19 make mrproper John Levon
2001-01-24 17:27 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-01-24 17:33 ` leo.howell [this message]
2001-01-25 14:00 ` James Lewis Nance
2001-01-25 14:21 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-25 14:54 ` David Relson
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 18:33 ` Thunder from the hill
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