Where did the Frisbee get its name?

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Why: I have one. It glows in the dark.

Answer: The Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, CT! Did you ever notice that they're shaped like pie tins?

Legend has it:

Truck drivers for the company were the first to toss Frisbie Pie tins on the loading docks during idle times. The tins bore the words "Frisbie's Pies" and had 6 small holes in the center, in a star pattern, that hummed when the tin flew.

The sport moved to Eastern colleges, where students shouted "Frisbie!" to warn people of incoming pie tins. A sport developed and took on the name "Frisbie-ing."

Wham-O - which, btw, is named for the sound their wooden slingshot's pellets make on impact - had been selling Pluto Platters (formerly Flyin' Saucers) since 1948 with little success. After witnessing the game at Yale in 1958, they renamed their product the Wham-O Frisbee, registered it as a trademark, and sold 100 million of them by 1977.

Source: The Ultimate Handbook

The More You Know: In the 1970s, "Steady" Ed Headrick invented the modern Frisbee, which flies straight (if you throw it correctly, which I don't). When he died in February of this year, his ashes were incorporated into some commemorative Frisbees "so his soul could fly freely." He also said:

When we die, we don't go to purgatory. We just land up on the roof and lay there.