BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .

Subject: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Goose Gander
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:05 PM

Inventor of Frisbee dies at age 90.

And I never even had the chance to thank him.

Dang.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM

Well as an old frisbeetarian, I know where his soul is. It's stuck up on the roof and you can't get it down.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:11 PM

Drew up a design, my foot; I can tell a plastic copy of a '49 ford hubcap when I see one. Doesn't that look like a great picture of an old geezer who still enjoyed life, though?

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 01:38 PM

JOHN! You stole my thunder! Good thing you ain't close by... I can still whip a disc at blinding speed.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Cuilionn
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 02:15 PM

It's too bad he never became a DJ..... he was so good at spinning discs!

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 02:22 PM

I remember when I lived in St. Louis in the Winter of 59-60, a friend trying to explain a Frisbee to me. It was evidently the latest fad, but I had never seen one.
(I still have an original "Moonlighter"...on of the all-time classic favorites)

I spent many an hour chasing those things......

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 02:35 PM

Ohhhh.... the glow in the dark... we used to put them up against the headlight of a vehicle after dark, get baked on gooood smoke and throw when it was windy. Many a bruise! I always used two hands... the right one to try to catch and the left one in front of my face.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 02:55 PM

Ah, looks like ya missed then.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM

Not me. I have always been quick as a wildcat. And more cautious.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:10 PM

The article linked omits that the "standard" sized Frisbee^® is the perfect holder for a commonly-used-but-much-too-flimsy paper plate.

In recent years one sees far more Frisbees^® used as "plate holders" in the festival campgrounds than are to be seen flying through the sky. (Possibly due to the increase in obesity and lethargy among the population, or maybe just because a lot of us who camp at festivals are too old to chase the ^$%#@$! things.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:12 PM

Before he died, he said to his family - when I die, throw my ashes as far as you can, and wherever I land, that's where I want to be buried.

So they buried him on top of the wardrobe.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM

Hmmm.. I have about 2 dozen of the plate holders made of woven reeds or such. Never thought of using Frisbees. (fine for holding in the lap I guess, but they would rock if set on a table)

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:35 PM

Bill D -

Some of the (perhaps "later") models have very flat "top" surfaces, or the cheap "non-professional" ones in the toy shops. This feature is especially common in the "gimme" toys frequently (formerly?) given away as advertising gimmicks. You have to look around a bit for the best ones.

The Frisbee has the advantage that you can toss them in with the "game equipment" instead of having to "put them away" with the dinnerware, and sometimes (at festivals) if you leave them out on a picnic table after lunch the young urchins will recognize them and be distracted from their spoons, bones, whistles, musical toads, and other obnoxious toys to actually play with them (for a little while).

John

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM

Jenny, you've been listening to Billy Connolly again ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:47 PM

You cretins...........Respect the disc! Like other things, this simple toy developed a following who turned it to sport. I love golf and a friend of mine played competitively in "Ultimate" for years.....a bit over-the-hill now but we both enjoyed many hours of just throwing the disc while we bullshit.

once you get the half dozen basic throws you are ready to move to the bigtime....LOL.   And while the Wham-O folks brought it to us first, many others have come along, some making cheap advertizing things and people like Innova making literally hundreds of professional model of different weight and rims and designs to fit almost any situation.....Check out the Innova website to see what you need and read how they rate discs in speed, glide, turn, and fade.

Innova Website


Thanks for the hours of fun and competition Mr. Morrison.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:17 PM

;)

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:43 PM

I lived in a men's (men?) "residence" at UNB for three years. It had a dining hall. In the winter, some of us would play "asshole" in the dining hall. The maximum throw was about 90 feet and we often threw at 60, even 50 feet. But, that was the limit... any closer and you HAD to go back to your starting line.

Back then, winning a game of asshole often meant sore, bruised hands the next day and we had to be able to do our draughting proper and in good time or old man Semple would dock us points on our term grades. Nowadays, with CADD, it wouldn't be so bad.

The kids these days have it so easy!

I wonder if they still play asshole in the dining hall. It was trurned into a coed residence years ago, so maybe the macho games have been toned down? NAHHHH... I'll bet some of the girls are good at it too... I hope so.

(Hmmmm.... maybe some of youse dunno the game. Ya whip a Frisbee at someone and if it's "catchable" and they drop it, they get a letter, starting with "A". Sounds simple eh? Until you play against me... back then, that is. I used to be able to whip one at your head so fast that when you caught it, if you didn't wince and say that it hurt, you were being macho." The nursing students in residence at the women's residences reset more than one finger joint for us.)

I miss being young and stupid. It was so much fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: mousethief
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:43 PM

Gnu: I can still whip a disc at blinding speed.

Is that what they're calling it these days?

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:48 PM

I dunno MT. I was just to lazy to type out Frisbee.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:57 PM

Actually gnu, that's just a variant on "Guts" which is an actual game in team disc competition.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:07 PM

Realllyyy?... we was pioneers?

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:25 PM

Why didn't my Dad not think of that?

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:02 PM

Actually gnu, that's just a variant on "Guts" which is an actual game in team disc competition.

That's one of the names some of the kids called it back when I was a little guy, before we heard of the commercial Frisbee and played with 30 inch galvanized tin trash can lids.

My mom just called it "stupid" (especially after one of the boys missed a critically aligned catch and need some homemade medical attention); but we had fun with it.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:52 PM

Guts Frisbee

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:23 AM

Wimps; real men would play with table saw blades!

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:39 AM

I spent hours in the back yard with neighbor kids playing and creating frisbee games. Dodge frisbee, frisbee football, frisbee tag, frisbee slaughter. And challenges to see who could throw them highest.

And we all learned to climb the cherry tree to get up on roof and retrieve the errant frisbee.

Wonderful toy.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:50 AM

fun frisbee freestyle

frisbee on ice

dogs like to play too

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Mooh
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 11:51 AM

Crap. What a downer. I use one every day to amuse the dogs.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:16 PM

"a bit over-the-hill now but we both enjoyed many hours of just throwing the disc while we bullshit"

Errrrmm, please excuse the pedantry, but shouldn't that be 'bullshat'? :-) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:39 PM

Can't recall his name... Canuck comic...

"I was wondering why a frisbee seems to get larger as it approaches me and then it hit me."

Oh... Stuart Francis. Good comic.

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:32 AM

Some may recall that we spent about two months in the camper between selling the old house and finding and getting possession of a new one, with the Walnut Valley Festival at about the midpoint. We camped for most of that time at the Winfield (Kansas) Fairgrounds, but had to move several times to make way for various events.

The last significant relocation was to get out of the area where they had marked out the course(s) for some sort of "International Frisbee" competition (according to papers found blowing around). Unfortunately we were into daily trips back to the city to try to close on the new house and missed seeing any of the activites, or getting any more information about just what was going on.

We've found that "International" is a term used somewhat loosely in Winfield, but may look at the schedules next year (last couple of weeks of September?) to see if there's more info. Local comment was that it's been going on for several years, but as usual the villagers knew nothing about what goes on at the Fairgrounds.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Inventor of Frisbee Dies . . .
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 04:14 PM

Stuart Francis.