Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.cooks Subject: Re: Zap! Message-ID: <2659@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 12:48:41 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2659 Posted: Mon Dec 31 12:48:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 06:22:26 EST References: <817@amdahl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 13 > The use of "zap" to mean the verb "microwave" I like to think of > as my invention, but in fact it seems to have sprung up independently > in many places. It seems such a reasonable usage for a word which > originally came from Flash Gordon comics, to mean to bombard with > (microwave) radiation. > Well, we always used 'nuke', as in "Jim, could you nuke me some coffee?" -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay