Definition of "Fully Blown"

[Mark Hardman]

(01-12-2015 01:54 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  

(01-10-2015 01:11 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote:  Definition of Fully Blown ™

I have been asked about this on this board so here is the reply.

I coined this phrase back in 1983 when I doubled the speed of my HP41CV with the capacitor switch. I was too broke to have a phone inside my house so I used the pay phone outside my house at the intersection of Grove & Virginia Streets in Berkeley to announce it to my college buddies.

We used to use that phrase back in the '50s when working on our hot rods.
1983 is way too late for you to have come up with it!

Tom L

I'd say.

According to Merriam-Webster.com the "First Known Use of FULL-BLOWN" was in 1601!