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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!!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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