> 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').
In CZ, we have Mr. Proper too - it's same as Mr Clean, but 'proper' doesn't
mean anything in czech too. I think it's just an international name for
that tool, which is using everywhere.
I think we explained it totally cleanly (properly ;-) and we are going really
offtopic now ;-).
>
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