From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 19:27:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B262016A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6225543D2D for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:30:38 -0600 Message-ID: <3FE66474.1030201@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:26:44 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike bueide References: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com> <3FE63E95.2020201@potentialtech.com> <20031222024701.GA1417@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <20031222024701.GA1417@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Dec 2003 03:30:39.0375 (UTC) FILETIME=[F87811F0:01C3C83B] cc: Bill Moran cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:27:32 -0000 mike bueide wrote: >On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:45:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > >>Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >> >> >>>Bill Moran writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>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? >> >> > >Might it not be a maritime reference? > >--------- > Michael Bueide > mbueide (at) charter (dot) net . > > Possibly, but that wouldn't explain that it's commonly known among old fogeys (sic --- "look" doesn't give a plural) in Missouri. Not very salty, Kevin Kinsey