An Omaha, Nebraska, listener has a word for using Google Earth to fly around the planet virtually and zoom in on far-flung locations: floogling, a combination of flying and Googling. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Floogling”
We heard from Gary Nachman who lives in Omaha.
And he actually gave me a word that I’ve needed for some time. It’s flugling.
Flugling, yeah.
F-l-o-o-g-l-i-n-g.
Flugling.
He started using that when he started using Google Earth.
He says, I love to visit places around the world and zoom in. I call it flugling, flying with Google.
Oh, that’s nice.
You ever do that?
Yeah, my son and I like to do that.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, he’ll be like, show me the house that we lived in when I was born.
Or show me Paris, and I’ll just try to find a cool way to get him there and show him some things that he wasn’t expecting.
Oh, so you flugled.
We flugled, yeah.
I like the idea.
I like the idea, too.
Which reminds me, do you know the website where they show you a random place on Google Street View, and you have to figure out what country it’s in?
Yes.
Oh, I love that.
That’s tough.
You have to look for the street signs.
That’s the trick.
Oh, Cyrillic.
You know.
Yeah.
Or Spanish.
Yeah.
Andrew Sullivan used to do that on his blog.
Remember that?
So flugeling.
Off to flugel.
Flugeling.
Yes.
I enjoy that.
Floogling
An Omaha, Nebraska, listener has a word for using Google Earth to fly around the planet virtually and zoom in on far-flung locations: floogling, a combination of flying and Googling.
From A Way with Words – Whistle in the Dark, Posted by Grant Barrett on December 12, 2016
My first exposure to Flugel was to listen to a Flugelhorn reference from the Sing Off 2013 when Kevin Olusola did an a Capella version of a horned instrument during their performance and the contest judge Shawn Stockman mentioned flugelhorn in his review as a Flugelhorn. The implementation was a trumpet-like horn during The Sing-Off 2013 when Pentatonix preformed Piece of My Heart originally by Janis Joplin. Ben Folds one of the other judges called it a trumpet and adapted the usage to Flugelhorn. Therefore, I assumed it related to a musical instrument. If you were to go flugeling then it involved playing music i.e. playing a trumpet.
By the way, I am a native Nebraskan- born, raised and educated in the state of Nebraska.