Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com (10/02/90)
"Henry E. Schaffer" <hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu> writes: > I asked the agent leading my tour what was the origin of the name >"cheese box" and he had no idea. I wondered if it was from the idiom >"cheese it" meaning "scram" which was used back in those days. Does >anyone know? "Back when I was a boy" restaurants received loaves of cheese (cream cheese comes to mind) in long wooden boxes. My _understanding_ is that original call forwarding boxes were made using these wooden boxes as the chassis. edg