

| Subject: | Re: them swedish buggers tillgrepping them campers |
| From: | David Kao |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:22:59 -0700 |
Joel, grep is a Unix command that searches and displaces matching lines of text from the file(s) being grep'ed. You are a little off tonight? Are you drinking? No? I am not drinking. So who is drinking? David --- joel walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote: > > still no clarity on the tillgrepp > > we demand to know what this is ... > > clicking on it has proven useless > > i may resort to moving it around on my desk tops in hope of > > some resolution... > > > tillgrepp is swedish police slang for 'theft'. like > breaking-and-entering type theft. comes from the old old swedish > "grepp de till" or loosely translated into english "grab the till" or > "grab the money out of the cash register", cept they didn't have cash > registers back then, and the merchant carried his 'till' (sack of > money) on a rope around his waist. > from which the nickhame "ol' moneybags" was derived. and since the > vikings came down through sweden and denmark to england, lots of their > quaint expressions made it into the english language. ;) > > Nu du veta vilan om historia. > (now you know the rest of the story). ;) > > unca joel > i swear my calendar IN MY VANAGON sez it's friday somewhere!! > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
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