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Thunderbirds Are O27!

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Thunderbirds Are O27!
Posted by M. Mitchell Marmel on Friday, October 3, 2014 7:39 PM

Well, when one is given a barrel ramp car without barrels, one simply has to make do... 

 

 

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Posted by rtraincollector on Friday, October 3, 2014 7:56 PM

Nice 

Life's hard, even harder if your stupid  John Wayne

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Posted by M. Mitchell Marmel on Friday, October 3, 2014 8:41 PM

F.A.B.! Wink

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, October 4, 2014 5:19 PM

Listen everybody, Lady Firestorm and I have watched the "Thunderbirds"  since the Sixties.  Does anyone know, I mean REALLY know, what "FAB" means?

"SIG" from "Captain Scarlet" was easy to figure out.  "Spectrum Is Green."

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Posted by M. Mitchell Marmel on Saturday, October 4, 2014 5:51 PM

According to Gerry Anderson, it was a meaningless acronym based on the popular slang term "Fab". 

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, October 4, 2014 7:12 PM

Oh, is THAT what it meant!  We thought "FAB" meant "Four Astronaut Brothers", considering four of the five brothers did the flying.

Well thanks for the response!  We've been wondering about this for almost fifty years, although I'll have to tell Lady Firestorm later.  She's watching "Doctor Who" right now and is NOT to be disturbed!

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Posted by wjstix on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:03 PM

Firelock76

Oh, is THAT what it meant!  We thought "FAB" meant "Four Astronaut Brothers", considering four of the five

Does that mean the Beatles were the "Four Astronaut Brothers Four"??? Headphones

I loved that show, my favorite episode was when they went to Loch Ness and the monster was racing along in the water grabbing speeding cars off the nearby road with it's mouth.

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Posted by Lloyd2 on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:40 PM
That is simply Fabulous!
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Posted by chipset35 on Friday, November 7, 2014 12:15 PM

I loved that show!

But, I would sometimes get scared when I was very young when they show a first person view racing across the water.

I know silly...

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