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Walter Morrison

“Pluto Platter” Inventor, Walter Morrison, Dies

by Lukep on 12. Feb, 2010 in Culture

What the hell is a Pluto Platter? That’s what Walter called the Frisbee before it was named the Frisbee. The more I think about it, I like Pluto Platter better. Cool name.

Walter Morrison, Pluto Platter Inventor

From Yahoo:

According to Kennedy, Morrison and his future wife, Lu, used to toss a tin cake pan on the beach in California. The idea grew as Morrison considered ways to make the cake pans fly better and after serving as a pilot in World War II, Morrison began manufacturing his flying discs in 1948.

He would hawk the discs at local fairs and eventually attracted Wham-O Manufacturing, the company that bought the rights to Morrison’s plastic discs.

Kennedy says Wham-O adopted the name “Frisbee” because that’s what college students in New England were calling the Pluto Platters. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co., a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.

I’m gonna start having to call “disc golf” something else. “Pluto platter golf” maybe?

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Olde English HG800 #2

by Lukep on 23. Apr, 2008 in Ramblings

Believe me, this is not a consistent situation.

I’m on my second Olde English Forty in two days. It’s kinda cool. I guess I’d talk it up if it came up during a casual conversation. I just like drinking malt liquor while watching Twins baseball, what can I say?

I should drink one of these every night. Maybe I shouldn’t. It’s hard to say. It probably depends on the evening more than anything.

As an afterthought….

Last night after I finished off my Olde English HG800, I browsed eBay and ended up dropping 14 bucks for an Olde English 800 baseball cap. I hope I receive it soon. It’s being delivered to my office. That will be some good subject material for office conversation, that is for sure. Guaranteed.

New Rally Cap?

I can’t wait until I receive my hat. That is going to be awesome. I’m going to wear it while I disc golf. That should be fun. I’ll probably wear the hat at other time as well. Maybe during Twins games. Maybe the hat will turn out to be one of those mythical rally caps for Twins baseball.

I could only hope.

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