Knowledge box is an old slang term for noggin; one 1755 describes someone who “almost cracked his knowledge box.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Knowledge Box”
Grant, do you know what a knowledge box is?
Your noggin?
How did you know?
I don’t know.
That’s very good.
Yes, yes.
The earliest reference I’ve heard to knowledge box being slang for head is back in 1755 when somebody wrote about fighters and one of them gives him a damn drive in the bread basket and almost cracked his knowledge box.
Sports writers, man.
They’ve always used colorful language.
That could work today almost, right?
That could.
That could.
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