From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:07:30 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <9bc17528-8ea9-49f7-8e9d-07f5ede91415@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <200808062238.15634.juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218206462 17886 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 14:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 16:41:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRT9r-0005X0-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:41:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRT8w-0006Po-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1218204439 22850 166.84.1.5 (8 Aug 2008 14:07:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ckkp5oJPIMuAVgEHGnS/9MkZsEs= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160963 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56311 Archived-At: I seem to remember from my early school days it was a campaign slogan for someone nick-named Kinderhook that went something like Old Kinderhook is OK - Chris "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 22:38, Juanma wrote: > >> For all I know, it comes from "0 Knock-outs" (from USA civil war times, >> IIRC), i.e., all went really well. > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay#Etymology > > "0 knock-outs" is among the "Improbable or refuted etymologies". > > Juanma > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================