Re: Early apple employees Dick and Cliff Huston selling off collection

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Toinet wrote:
> On 23 mar, 21:11, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> Toinet wrote:
>> > On 23 mar, 20:33, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> >> Toinet wrote:
>> >> > Part of the items were sold yesterday, let's say this morning for
>> >> > me.
>> >> > I won the ProDOS source code listing. And the drive I was bidding on
>> >> > at $3500 ended at $5300 *sigh*
>>
>> >> Good job. :-) This is the part where we mob you for Xerox copies. :-P
>>
>> > "mob" ???? I miss the meaning, sorry. mobilize?
>>
>> No. It means when a crowd of angry people gather around someone.
> 
> To do what? Or why are they angry? They are angry and want to kill the
> guy because he gave copies? Or they demonstrate? Please forgive my
> lack of understanding on that one, I have to admit I am quite lost
> despite your tries to explain it to me.
> 

In this case, I was using it as a joke, so no one is actually mad. However,
the joke would be that we are mad at you for having won the copies of the
ProDOS source, so we have come to mob you and take them.