From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:17 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:45929 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:44:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3A708D85.849D0ADE@ngforever.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:33:09 -0700 From: Thunder from the hill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD QXW03240 (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville Herva , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: make mrproper In-Reply-To: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> <20010124173302.A8027@marvin> <20010125090026.B918@bessie.dyndns.org> <20010125180240.A1002@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/