gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) (12/30/84)
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.
But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think
it sounds cumbersome. Then again, "any noun can be verbed."
Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves?
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37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ]reid@Glacier.ARPA (12/31/84)
> But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think > it sounds cumbersome. Then again, "any noun can be verbed." > > Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves? In my family we have always referred to it as "nuking" something, e.g. ``Dear, will you please nuke the macaroni for 2 minutes and give it to the baby?'' -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
isis@utzoo.UUCP (n) (12/31/84)
At a local coffee house and falafal "joint" by the "By the Way" formally
know as "Licken Chicken", the counter help "NUKE" the food. I did
some checking and found 5 or 6 other eateries that use the term.
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Bill McLean @ Ont. Ministry of Health
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Overheard: Some coffee, and for the halibut, nuke it.
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Bill McLean @ Ont. Ministry of Health
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henryriddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/31/84)
>> Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves?
Oh, I can think of a few. Foolish? Suicidal? Lazy? :-) :-)
But a word I've used on occasion is "mu-wav". ("Wav" rhymes with "have".)
I also refer to the dishwasher as a "wishdasher," since I used to have to
load or unload it as a kid when I really wanted to go out and play.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddlebetsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) (12/31/84)
> 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
upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill) (12/31/84)
How about 'nuke'. Has the right amount of wry humor, esp. in the politically correct Bay Area. Steve U.
chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (01/01/85)
> From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) > Date: 30 Dec 84 05:08:16 GMT > > But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think > it sounds cumbersome. Then again, "any noun can be verbed." While some might claim that "any noun can be verbed", I maintain that all generalizations are bad. -- Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara {cbosgd,idi,intelca,icalqa,kremvax,qubix,ucscc} ! {t4test,t12tst} ! {chip,news}
seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy) (01/01/85)
Sure! there's other words useful for describing the process
of heating food (or whatever) in the microwave. You can "mic"
it, but my favorite is "nuke". (especially if the power dial is set
to "high")
"Nuke that sucker for about a minute and a half on 'high'."
As far as "ZAP" goes, there's a book out, called "The Zapping of America",
describing some of the places you get zapped, and what it does to your body.
I haven't read it myself, the hour lecture was terrifing enough, thank you.
(And you thought speed traps were safe, as long as you were going slow
enough! HA!)
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\___/mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) (01/02/85)
A friend of mine refers to microwaving things as 'nuking'. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg
wear@osu-eddie.UUCP (Georgia Wear) (01/03/85)
> > Sure! there's other words useful for describing the process > of heating food (or whatever) in the microwave. You can "mic" > it, but my favorite is "nuke". (especially if the power dial is set > to "high") > > "Nuke that sucker for about a minute and a half on 'high'." You "nuke it til it glows, so you can eat it in the dark" ---georgia
doyle@genrad.UUCP (Rick Doyle) (01/05/85)
In article <817@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) writes: >The use of "zap" to mean the verb "microwave" > >But formalists are still using the verb "microwave", though I think >it sounds cumbersome. Then again, "any noun can be verbed." > >Any other ways to describe cooking with microwaves? >-- >Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam > >37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ] I "NUKE IT" when I microwave anything.I started it in school and it really caught on there,but in the real world some people dgive me the strangest looks when I say it. Rick Doyle
wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (01/05/85)
All this brings to mind the "nuclear oven" series in Tim Downs' *Downstown* comic strip... Wombat "I am not, nor have I ever been, jan howard finder" ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
anne@digi-g.UUCP (Anne Chenette) (01/07/85)
Keywords: We always "zart" things in our microwave. We "beam" coffee, but that's because when one opens the mu-wave door, there's always a cup of coffee in there (we figured out that beings in another dimension are beaming us the coffee so that we'll always have some). Anne Chenette ihnp4!umn-cs!digi-g!anne
nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (01/19/85)
> How about 'nuke'. Has the right amount of wry humor, esp. in the > politically correct Bay Area. > > Steve U. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I've heard some of the programmers around here use 'nuke' to mean 'destroy', as in "the program nuked the file-system". For 'microwave', I've heard 'wave' used as a verb. But then, I refer to ice cubes as "thermal attenuators". Kchula-Rrit
andyr@ihuxa.UUCP (Ronald R. Anderson) (01/22/85)
Personally, I "pop" something in the "wave"... -- -- Ronald R. Anderson AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois [...ihnp4!]ihuxa!andyr