Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:19:31 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group Message-ID: <3FE646A3.6080907@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <3FE63E95.2020201@potentialtech.com> References: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com> <o9vfo9930c.fo9@mail.comcast.net> <3FE63E95.2020201@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: >>> Does anyone know why the wheel group is called "wheel"? I mean, why not >>> "admins" or something like that. "wheel" certainly is a cryptic name >>> for >>> the administrators group. Anyone have any idea why it's called "wheel"? >> >> >> Seems obvious to me. "Big wheel" was slang for "one who calls the >> shots" or "VIP" as long as I can remember. And "wheel" was common >> slang for "big wheel". Some sys admin must have seen sys admins as >> qualifying. Why "big wheel" had that meaning, I can only guess, but I >> suspect it came from horsey days when people's importance was >> pretty-well correlated with the size of their vehicle's wheels. > > Interesting. I can't remember ever hearing the term "Big wheel" before. > Perhaps it's some local slang that is seldom used in western Pennsylvania? It sounds pretty plausible though. The only place I can remember hearing the term, "big wheel", before is in a Simpson's episode where Milhouse describes his dad as a, "big wheel down at the cracker factory", or something like that! Works for me! Andrewhome | help
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