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Flat Flip Flies Straight-True Origins of the Frisbee
Enjoy FREE SHIPPING on all disc golf products at DiscsandMore.com! 436 pages On August 28th, 2011 the State of Vermont and parts of New Hampshire was ravaged by Hurricane Irene. Thousands have lost everything and are displaced or unable to leave their homes. Over 200 bridges have been destroyed and 5 historic covered bridges in Vermont are gone. Whole towns are stranded and others are unreachable by main roads. Electricity is said to be out for weeks in some parts of the state of Vermont. Railroad beds are destroyed and in places the tracks are hovering over thin air where there once was land. The cost of the damage to the infrastructure of Vermont is astronomical, and most of the folks who lost their homes did not have flood insurance. For video footage see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhFokKEe7-Y or go to youtube hurricane irene vt We at discsandmore.com have found these websites who are collecting donations for Vermonters, but also want to do our part in collecting monies for Vermonters in need. We at Discsandmore.com will be giving 75% of all profits from our Amazon.com sales and sales of disc golf products for the entire month of September to flood victims of Vermont Go to www.redcrossvtnhuv.org LOCAL DONATIONS to flood victims in both Vermont and New Hampshire Donate by phone 1-800-RED-CROSS OR Shop on AMAZON link via www.discsandmore.com to help the flood victims of Vermont FREE SHIPPING on all orders!
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An Event from Published Frisbee History... That Never Happened! The Frisbee came from Frisbie pie tins. The easy way to debunk this ubiquitous urban legend is to separate the “thing” (the plastic flying disc) from its “name” (Frisbee). Humans have been tossing disc-shaped objects i.e. flying discs since prehistoric times. The Greeks discovered that the discus performed well as both a long-range weapon and an Olympic event. To this day, folks throw all sorts of round, flat objects such as can lids, pie tins, paper plates, yogurt tops, etc. just for pure fun. Plastic flying discs were invented in 1948 by Fred Morrison out in Southern California as the outcome of ten years perfecting his concept for a “better flying cake pan.” It was his second disc design, the 1955 Pluto Platter, that Wham-O bought from him in 1957. Meanwhile, back in Southern New England, the activity of sailing disc-shaped objects or flying discs on several college campuses became known as “frizby” or “frisbie,”quite possibly because throwing pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company (with an outlet near Yale) was best-known. Shortly after acquiring the rights to the Pluto Platter in 1957, Rich Knerr, president of Wham-O, while on a sales-promotion trip back East, heard of college kids referring to Pluto Platters as frisbies. Not knowing why or where the name came from, he decided that, if it would help sell products, Wham-O would use the new nickname to their advantage. Not having seen a spelling of the name in print, they settled on “Frisbee” to trademark their discs. Thus the “name” was wedded to the “thing,” which became the first (Pluto Platter) or flying disc, the Frisbee.Read more in Flat Flip Flies Straight- The True Origins of the Frisbee FREE SHIPPING on all disc golf and frisbee purchases here at DiscsandMore, including the Nutsac disc golf bag!
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