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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Automatic Call Forwarding
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Date: 7 Oct 90 23:33:24 GMT
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In article <12898@accuvax.nwu.edu>, hes@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (Henry E.
Schaffer) 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?

I read something one time about a character who worked for the mob in
New York or Chicago years ago.  He had the nickname "cheesebox"
because he had allegedly designed and built the first one of these
call forwarders 50 or so years ago in a real cheese box.


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