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On 2025-03-20 15:37:27 +0000, The Last Doctor said:
> On 20/03/2025 08:16, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 20/03/2025 11:14 am, Your Name wrote:
>> 
>> <Snip>
>> 
>>> F.A.B.   :-p
>>> 
>> Did anybody in Authority ever state what "F.A.B." was an abbreviation for??
> 
> Gerry Anderson was said to look surprised when asked this and replied "Fab,
>  of course."

Yep. In terms of Thunderbirds "F.A.B." didn't really mean anything. It 
was simply used as a 'hip' catchphrase and a shortened version of 
'fabulous' which was popular in the 1960s.

But, "F.A.B." was used actually previously by radio operators in World 
War II, where it meant "'Fully Acknowledged Broadcast", so possibly 
that is the original source of the phrase Gerry Anderson used without 
fully realising it.