Date:         Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:22:59 -0700
Reply-To:     David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: them swedish buggers tillgrepping them campers
Comments: To: joel walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <00a401c7c8f8$cfd90760$38955804@gpa207joel>
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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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