No matter what anyone tells you, Frisbee was invented on Whitsun weekend, Saturday, June 21st, 1947, at around 2pm, at the Bromsgrove Boy Scout Camp by the leaders of the Hounds and Badgers patrols, “Dodgy” Masterson and “Bomber” Harris, of the 2nd Swindon (Wilts.) Boy Scouts Troop.
“Dodgy” was supervising cleanup around his patrol area when he came upon a spare aluminium plate that did not have the Hounds paw print stenciled on it. He looked across the small field to where “Bomber” was engaged in the same activity with members of his patrol.
With prescience uncharacteristic of him, “Dodgy” launched the plate upside down towards “Bomber”. To his amazement, it floated on the air like a seagull, heading straight at “Bomber”. He overcame his baser instincts, which would have been to let the plate hit “Bomber” in the back of the neck, and called out ““Bomber”, is this one of yours?” “Bomber” turned just in time to see the plate coming straight at his head. He reacted as anyone would. He put up his hand to protect his face. In so doing, he caught the plate.
His retaliative side immediately took over, and “Bomber” launched the plate back at “Dodgy”. By this time, other members of each patrol had looked up from their chores to see what was going on. “Limpy” Smithers, so called because one leg was shorter than the other, but who was otherwise a splendid wicketkeeper, made a diving catch to secure the plate for the Hounds. He scrambled back to his feet and threw it back towards the Badgers side. “Snotty” McEwan, (originally “Scotty” until he came to school one harsh winter with a bad cold, but with no handkerchief) made the catch.
So it went on for the next hour. I rest my case.
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