I too am intigued by from what thread was this a diversion

Heh. As an involuntary "OP", I'll stitch it back to some meaningful reading.

It's from [URL]http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11023[/URL]
Stemmed from
"P.S. Don't ask me what [I]Schlendrian[/I] means... but it's all over the pol51's source... [IMG]http://mersenneforum.org/images/smilies/extra/rolleyes.gif[/IMG]"

Mann, das ist Schlendrian
 

Interestingly, I just came across the word "Schlendrian" in Vol 1 of Thomas Mann's "Josef und Seine Brüder", the context was someone describing an informal noncontractual business arrangement as "Schlendrian", i.e. something akin to "Schlamperei."

[quote=Andi47;150669]I have never heared "Drahtjacke". For me it sounds like a joke word for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_%28armour%29"]Kettenhemd (Chainmail)[/URL], but I might be wrong...[/quote]

Yeah its a German word and would be that meaning. I never have heart it in the wild so ...

[QUOTE=Andi47;150669]I have never heared "Drahtjacke". For me it sounds like a joke word for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_(armour)"]Kettenhemd (Chainmail)[/URL], but I might be wrong...[/QUOTE]

Actually, I was attempting a feeble pun on the net slang "Threadjack". So everyone please, calmly take your whips and chain mail shirts and proceed calmly in single-file back to the dungeon. Sorry to get you all excited on false pretenses...