Boers aside, in the US a cheesehead is a Packer backer. A fan of
Wisconsin's American football team who wears a plastic imitation of a wedge
of cheese as a headgear.

Of course, Wisconsin also refers to itself as "America's Dairyland."

"charles jones" wrote in message
...
The term 'cheesehead' is used in the UK to describe a screw with a round
parallel sided head and slotted to accept a flat-bladed screwdriver. It
can
also be used as a derogitary term for a Dutchman. I believe the term was
first used in the Boar war.

Charlie

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"Paulco" wrote in message
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I'm from down under and I have no idea what a cheese head screw is
either.

Then again Teknatool is a New Zealand company and they are a weird
lot.
Cheers
Paul


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:54:47 -0500, Gerald Ross
wrote:

I ordered a Supernova chuck and cole jaws from the KMS Tools
website. It was the best prices I found. That night Bob Gadd
called me at home and said they were out of Supernova
Chucks, but if it was OK with me, they were going to ship me
a Supernova 2 chuck for the same price. What a guy!

The cole jaws included screws that I thought were too long,
until I read the instructions: They were for attaching
regular jaws on top of the cole jaws. Also included were 8
cheese-head screws--a new term to me. Probably a down-under
term. I guess they call a regular pan head screw a cow patty
screw.



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