ok so now the swedish lesson has sank in ... bork bork bork says the swedish chef of muppet fame ... but ... i am imagining there were some sort of pictures tagged along with those year numbers in the original post or was it simply year of van ripped off from the waist band of ol money bags

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On 7/17/07, 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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