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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Season Two: Disney+ Trailer Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:45:09 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: <vrjcf6$19mra$1@dont-email.me> References: <xn0p3af9o6icmls004@post.eweka.nl> <vrgit6$2qtc2$1@dont-email.me> <vrhcnn$3hce5$1@dont-email.me> <vrimpm$k5pp$1@dont-email.me> <vrj3f4$1204j$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:45:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d70d3bdd2643d77f542697e5946cdb31"; logging-data="1366890"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JwhFVIPInfSfLc9owlls0" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RqcPCyz73oUevQJCAQmxrZfYmUo= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250321-0, 3/21/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: <vrj3f4$1204j$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 3103 On 21/03/2025 6:11 pm, The Last Doctor wrote: > On 21/03/2025 03:35, Your Name wrote: >> 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. > > Roger that. > > That sounds plausible but I've never heard that and I can't find any > evidence to support it on the Web - and it's an awkward phrase, feels a bit > contrived - I think this may be a myth. > Over! Doing a DuckDuckGo search .... https://thunderbirds.fandom.com/wiki/F.A.B. in: Classic Thunderbirds F.A.B. Not to be confused with the audio story, or the spy organisation. Virgil in Thunderbird 2 replies with "F.A.B F.A.B. is the codeword used by International Rescue agents as a means of acknowledgement, serving a similar purpose to "Roger". Although pronounced as individual letters, it does not stand for anything. The codeword was suggested by Grandma Tracy as a short, precise, and unique sounding term of acknowledgement, and based it off 'fabulous', which had been a much used phrase long ago[1]. -- Daniel70