And the ovoid shape was reminiscent of the even more ancient spindizzy design. A hyperspace converter like that couldn’t be less than four millennia old. […] The old spindizzies were soundly engineered converters of almost childlike simplicity that could and did carry ships enormous distances if their passengers didn’t care about subjective time-lag, and a little radioactivity.
2002 January 17, Joseph Hertzlinger, “Re: Anti-Semitism in Congress”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[1] (Usenet):
>> That's why we need an independent state of Israel. […] >On another planet? How many spindizzies would it take to lift Israel?
There are of course those who claim that the test we know of was rigged to fail, and that the real test was a success. There are rumours about secret work on the Heim drive, HTS, the “spindizzy” as some call it – from a science fiction story – all over the net.’
Is a great big bomb already headed our way, to punish us for broadcasting Mister Ed? In that case, maybe you could spare us some battle cruiser blueprints and disintegrator-ray plans? Some spindizzies and Alderson Field generators would come in handy.
2015, Craig L. Davidson, Horatio Smith and the Beam of Vengeance, Port Macquarie: CLD Productions Ltd, Lulu Publishing, →ISBN, pages 137, 143:
Like their created counterparts, they had developed their own “Cities in the Sky”. A network of flying settlements, all defying gravity through the use of massive engines: Spin-dizzies. […] Levitating above the surface, their spin-dizzies, akin to those used in the hoverers, produced a cushion of air, traversing any form of terrain.
2016, David Wegert, Kiloyear Future History: Possible Channelled Timelines for 1000 Years in the Future, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page unknown:
The development of gravity polarisers or spindizzies on some time lines with the help of certain advanced civilisations meant larger craft were capable of higher speeds.
2017 July 16, hypatiab7, “Re: Why evolutionists no talk about gigantism?”, in alt.atheism[2] (Usenet):
How gigantic was this ark of yours, if it was filled with dinosaurs from various ages and their food, as well as all the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, […] plus all those unmentioned plants and veggies and 8 human suckers to do all the work. The poor saps needed several spindizzies to carry all that.
2010 September 24, Robert C. Yeager, “Fast and Finely Crafted, Spindizzies Still Dazzle”, in The New York Times[3]:
For a few short years before and after World War II, the ear-splitting shriek of handbuilt model racecars, known as spindizzies or tether cars, could be heard across America. / Sitting at his kitchen table, only eight miles from a raceway where the cars once zipped past at more than 100 miles per hour, LeRoy Sabbatini reverently recalls his first spindizzy.
2010 September 24, Robert C. Yeager, “For Tether Car Collectors, Originality Counts Most”, in The New York Times[4]:
Spindizzies, or tether cars, come in three categories of descending value: original as raced, restored and reproduced. […] The best indicator of a spindizzy’s authenticity is its size, said Eric Zausner of Berkeley, Calif., who has an extensive collection. “Repros are always smaller because they come from second-generation molds.”
1999, Tom Hoberg, “Multiplex Heroine: Screen Adaptations of Emma”, in Barbara Tepa Lupack, editor, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 121:
Tidy, placid Highbury has yielded place to the raucous sprawl of mall, disco, and freeway, and its sleepy denizens to the decibel-challenging spindizzies of contemporary teenage-hood, where endless cellphone conversations supplant social visiting.
