Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:12:39 -0800 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More trivia: origin of the wheel group Message-ID: <u0oeu090x4.eu0@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3FE646A3.6080907@cream.org> (Andrew Boothman's message of "Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:19:31 %2B0000") References: <3FE500F4.3060108@potentialtech.com> <o9vfo9930c.fo9@mail.comcast.net> <3FE63E95.2020201@potentialtech.com> <3FE646A3.6080907@cream.org>
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Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> writes: > 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! I wonder if that shouldn't have been "big wheel down at the cheese factory". But that's exactly how the term is most often used -- referring to a high-level executive. I very much doubt if the term started with, or was even popularized by, the Big Wheel tricycle which came out in the mid '60s, but I don't know for sure. It'd sure be nice to have an OED or other etymological reference book.
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