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From: psv@nada.kth.se (Peter Svanberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Why Swedish message in all HyperCard stacks?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.035944.10219@nada.kth.se>
Date: 19 Nov 90 03:59:44 GMT
References: <9581@fy.sei.cmu.edu> <46661@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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This is very funny for a Swede! An exposition of this phrase and why
it is particularly funny:

"Now it's done" is not a perfect translation. The normal use of it is
to say "It's used up now", for example after having scraped out
everything in a jar. After having been used in a TV program for
children about 15 years ago - at least as much seen and appreciated by
"too-old-children" - the phrase has become a familiar quotation. The
program was called "Five ants are more than four elephants" and is
just now repeated the umpteenth time, this time on saturdays at 7.30
PM! The program always ended with "Nu a"r det slut" (said by an
elephant), a funny way of saying "The program is used up now!".

The popularity of this program has somewhat changed the meaning of
that particular phrase to "it's over now" or "this is the end of it".

So, a quotation from a swedish children's program in all Hypercard
stacks all over the world. Thank you, Martin!

In article <46661@apple.Apple.COM> jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:
>
>So, there you have it.  Reason #11 why we took so long to ship.
>But, like the man said, nu a"r det slut...
>

If you were having the history of Hypercard 2 in view, I hope you
withdraw this statement, given the above explanation... :-)
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Peter Svanberg, NADA, KTH			email: psv@nada.kth.se
Dept of Num Analysis and Comp Science, 
Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, SWEDEN