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

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 23 mar, 22:35, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> 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.

Okkkkkkkkeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy dddddoooooooooooooooooookkkkeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy.

That is what I imagined in a first thought but, as English/American,
is a really nice/imaged/poetry language, there could have been other
ways of interpreting your sentence.

Please forgive me, I do my best but I am sometimes, let's say...
lost :-) Especially with tdiaz' sentences :-)

antoine