Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:46:13 -0600 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group Message-ID: <p06002003bc0c43717ee3@[10.0.1.2]> 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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At 7:45 PM -0500 2003/12/21, Bill Moran wrote:
> 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?
From childhood -- a low-to-the-ground plastic tricycle-like contraption.
Thirty some-odd years sounds like about the right timeframe....
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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