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Subject:Re: them swedish buggers tillgrepping them campers
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:40:38 -0700

I am.  Ten year old Balvenie.

On 7/17/07, David Kao <dtkao0205@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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!!
> >
>
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Jake
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