From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
To: jap3003+response@ksu.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make mrproper
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:33:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A707197.6A80CE78@ngforever.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101241718460.10965-100000@mrworry.compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu>
> 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.
You've spelled it correct.
> 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.
Sure it was, since Mr. Proper already existed in the sixties...
People who don't know what it means usually use make spotless.
I have also already seen Mr. Proper in the US, and some other countries
seem to have it, too.
Cheers!
Thunder
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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
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 [this message]
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