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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