# Frisbeetarianism - not just a joke anymore?

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**Created:** [August 14, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frisbeetarianism-not-just-a-joke-anymore/123800 "2002-08-14T06:39:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frisbeetarianism-not-just-a-joke-anymore/123800/1 "2002-08-14T06:39:31Z")

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George Carlin’s quip, “Frisbeetarianism is the belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck,” immortalized by _some_ Doper or another’s sig line, may be being taken more seriously than you’d expect in some quarters.

Ed Headrick, who designed to production model of the Frisbee for Wham-O, [died two days ago at age 78](http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/14/1029113943908.html), after a series of strokes he suffered while playing Frisbee Golf.

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> Headrick’s wish that his ashes be moulded into memorial flying discs to be given to a select few family and friends and others who make donations in his memory will be honoured by his family, his son, Ken said today.

:eek:

Again, I say: :eek:

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> “I felt the Frisbee had some kind of a spirit involved,” Headrick told the Santa Cruz Sentinel last October. “It’s not just like playing catch with a ball. It’s the beautiful flight.”

Did I mention, :eek:?

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**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frisbeetarianism-not-just-a-joke-anymore/123800/2 "2002-08-14T07:13:50Z")

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Wow, it’s been a bad coupla months for Wham-O. First [Arthur Melin](http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,750318,00.html), their co-founder and Hula Hoopster, dies on June 28, and now this.

If I read both articles correctly, it was Fred Morrison who invented the Frisbee in the 50s and Headrick who gave it its modern form, yes?

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**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frisbeetarianism-not-just-a-joke-anymore/123800/3 "2002-08-14T07:40:20Z")

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here’s hoping Ed gets his wish,

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**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frisbeetarianism-not-just-a-joke-anymore/123800/4 "2002-08-14T07:51:33Z")

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The first people I RPGd with had set up Frisbeetarianism as a religion, I don’t know that they ever had any clerics for it. But it was funny at the time. All Hail the Great God Whamm-O!  
I sure hope I get my wishes fufilled when I die.