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RIP Mr Frisbee

  • 12-02-2010 11:21am
    #1
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭


    Mr John Frisbee has joined the great flying disc in the sky.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0212/breaking106.htm
    Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90 years-of-age.
    Utah House Representative Kay McIff, an attorney who represented Mr Morrison in a royalties case, said he died at his home in Monroe, Utah, on Tuesday.
    Mr McIff is from Richfield, Morrison's original home town.

    "That simple little toy has permeated every continent in every country, as many homes have Frisbees as any other device ever invented," Mr McIff said. "How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?"
    Mr Morrison's son, Walt, said "old age caught up" with his father and that he also had cancer.

    "He was a nice guy. He helped a lot of people," Walt Morrison said. "He was an entrepreneur. He was always looking for something to do."
    Mr Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his Pluto Platter in 1957.
    The plastic flying disc was later renamed the Frisbee, with sales surpassing 200 million discs

    A sad week for crabs, fashun and alsatians.


Comments

  • #2
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Some bloke died.

    The Frisbee itself will live forever.

    Next.


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Whatever happened to the person that invented the boomerang?
    Did their invention come back to haunt them? :confused:


  • #4
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Theres going to be some quality one liners here id wager. Cant think of any myself!


  • #5
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Jaysus I fcuking hate After Hours.


  • #6
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    There's a Frisbee forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055826208


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  • #7
    Menengroth™
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Menengroth™


    Biggins wrote: »
    Whatever happened to the person that invented the boomerang?
    Did their invention come back to haunt them? :confused:

    part of me just died inside..


  • #8
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    There's a Frisbee forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055826208


    It's hard to make out much in that forum through the veritable thicket of threads.


  • #9
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Biggins wrote: »
    Whatever happened to the person that invented the boomerang?
    Did their invention come back to haunt them? :confused:

    I think it's disrespectful to make throwaway comments on an RIP thread :pac:


  • #10
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,309 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    There's a Frisbee forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055826208
    Apparently we're still not allowed talk about MCD in there. :D


  • #11
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Menengroth™ wrote: »
    part of me just died inside..

    Does that make you an Aerobie?


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  • #12
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    WindSock wrote: »
    Mr John Frisbee has joined the great flying disc in the sky.

    I wonder what he caught?


  • #13
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    First headshops burning down and now the inventor of the frisbee is dead.

    It's like a hippie holocaust!


  • #14
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    There are very few people who haven't used his invention or at least been hit in the head by it.


    Now that's impact.


  • #15
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    He looks so happy.


  • #16
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    LazyFingers wrote: »
    Jaysus I fcuking hate After Hours.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/


  • #17
    extra-ordinary_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭extra-ordinary_


    It doesn't matter what sort of spin you put on it, it's a sad day for sports.


  • #18
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    well, what goes around, comes around.


  • #19
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Jesus Christ, a man died, some of the comments in this thread are discusting.


  • #20
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,309 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, a man died, some of the comments in this thread are discusting.

    Jesus Christ came back to life* maybe Mr Frisbee will too, or would Mr Boomerang be more likely to do that. I'm confused now :confused:




    *allegedly


  • #21
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Jesus Christ came back to life* maybe Mr Frisbee will too, or would Mr Boomerang be more likely to do that. I'm confused now :confused:

    I think you've mixed those two up with Rick O'Shea, DJ and modern day messiah.


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  • #22
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    We need an RIP forum*





























    *Zombie survival doesn't count.


  • #23
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, a man died

    Get over it. It happened thousands of years ago.


  • #24
    marko91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭marko91


    Biggins wrote: »
    Whatever happened to the person that invented the boomerang?
    Did their invention come back to haunt them? :confused:


    i see what you did there!!:pac::pac::pac:


  • #25
    BluesBerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    Poor Mr Frisbee must be spinning in his grave that he died of a slipped disc:pac:


  • #26
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    I thought Marty Mcfly invented it :confused:


  • #27
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, a man died, some of the comments in this thread are discusting.

    Winner

    :D


  • #28
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    I wonder if he believed in 'Frisbeetarianism'.


  • #29
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    stovelid wrote: »
    Winner

    :D


    discus.


  • #30
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    WindSock wrote: »
    I think it's disrespectful to make throwaway comments on an RIP thread :pac:

    Because you'll get some stick?.


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