Who came up with the name Whoopie Sling?

[Catavarie]

Academia is one of the slowest areas to adapt to technology. I used to laugh at the stuff they were teaching in computer science - everything they taught was five years old. A lot of this has to do with the fact that technology develops at a much faster pace than it takes education to approve a new textbook.

It was fine for educators to say that Wikipedia was not as reliable as Encyclopedia Brittanica back in the day, but it's time they woke up and smelled the coffee. By the time education realizes that Wikipedia is acceptable, Encyclopedia Brittanica will no longer exist.

I'm a bit disappointed I can't find more info on the origins of the whoopie sling on the Internet, however. It's as if they didn't exist before 2009, and I don't think that's the case.

It's already too late.

I've heard a talk by a professor who wrote an article for Encyclopedia Britannica several years back. After that experience he realized that Wikipedia is as good (and sometimes better) than any set of Encyclopedias.

[XTrekker]

So any new findings on the origins of the term "whoopie sling"?
Might find it in an old sailing or aborests book..

[Mouseskowitz]

First thing they told us in college. "Don't reference wikipedia. It is an unreliable source, for information."

And then you show up to Organic Chemistry and the professor tells you that wikipedia should be the first place you check, I guess it depends on the subject.

[Hctits]

one of my professors likes to give people a research topic that he created a wiki page for. of course his wiki is completely false with false references. It amuses him when half the class fails the assignment and doesn't understand why.

[XTrekker]

My sincere apologies to the OP and everyone else for completely derailing this thread.

[SilvrSurfr]

My sincere apologies to the OP and everyone else for completely derailing this thread.

Apology not accepted - we should be able to google "origins of whoopie sling" and find something. Very disappointing. So far we have gone back as far as 2004, but I just know that's not right.

[stevebo]

Funny thing is I'd buy a set of encyclopedias like I had as a kid if I could. I have a lot of fond memories on rainy days when I couldn't (read as wasn't allowed) to get out, sitting in my hall at home reading page after page and learning the most interesting things.

Kinda hate my kids will never experience that.

Me too! I can still see some of the pages if I close my eyes and remember---funny how all that works!

[kbajg]

ArboristSite.com - whoopie sling

www.arboristsite.com/arborist-101/187511.htm

A whoopie sling is one of the easiest things to make. ... It was invented in China in 1893 by a guy named Whu Pe. Phil Share. Share this post on; Digg;


It's on the internet so it has to be true.

[Mouseskowitz]

Google books found me a reference to whoopie slings in Tree Care Industry Vol 11 from 2000.

[fallkniven]

ArboristSite.com - whoopie sling

www.arboristsite.com/arborist-101/187511.htm

A whoopie sling is one of the easiest things to make. ... It was invented in China in 1893 by a guy named Whu Pe. Phil Share. Share this post on; Digg;


It's on the internet so it has to be true.

He must of been playing with his finger trap at the time