

| Subject: | Re: them swedish buggers tillgrepping them campers |
| From: | David Kao |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:51:20 -0700 |
Looks like good stuff. I don't drink. I mean I can't drink. I wish I could sometimes. David --- Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > 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!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all > > the tools to get online. > > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > > > > > > -- > Jake > 1984 Vanagon GL > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" > www.crescentbeachguitar.com > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/
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