More trivia: origin of the wheel group

[Andrew Boothman]

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!

Andrew