Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!CARROLL@USC-ISIB
From: CARROLL@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Thunderbirds-F.A.B.
Message-ID: <4218@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 10:33:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.4218
Posted: Mon Aug 15 10:33:00 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Aug-83 21:26:02 EDT
Lines: 17


   This weekend one of the local stations (Los Angeles) broadcast 
"Countdown to Disaster", a film using two of the old Thunderbirds 
episodes.  It had a 1982 copyright, and had some computer-type 
animated titles.  Other than that, it was the same old terrific 
Supermarionation.
   The episodes involved rescuing 2 newsmen from the wreckage of the
Empire State building, and saving 2 workers trapped in a diving sphere
underneath a collapsing oil rig.
   I vaguely recall a TB discussion about 18 months ago, but I need to 
ask this question: What does F.A.B. mean?  The members of International
Rescue use it in their radio communications as others might use roger,
wilco, or A-OK.  The letters are pronounced individually, "ef-ay-bee".

Thanx,
Steve (carroll@isib)
-------