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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: Zap!
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Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 12:48:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 31 12:48:41 1984
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> 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
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