freaking thunderbirds.

"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes) 01/08/2017 at 22:00 • Filed to: None

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They say FAB. Like ten times a show and its never explained what it means so of course I google it and it doesn’t mean a freaking thing it just supposed to sound cool and take place of roger or some radio call. I want to punch a clown!
At least the fab1 is cool

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Frank Grimes 01/08/2017 at 22:32

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I love this show but, holy shit yes, the FAB thing is annoying. The fact that so much of the show is real models is amazing, Weta is the best.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Frank Grimes 01/08/2017 at 22:41

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Fab is an old slang term. It’s short for fabulous. I think it started in the ‘60s but fell out of favor in the early ‘70s.

Svend > Frank Grimes 01/08/2017 at 23:06

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The FAB1 cars are pretty cool.

Frank Grimes > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/08/2017 at 23:31

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yeah but the creator or writer guy for the series says thats not what it stands for that it just had no meaning.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Frank Grimes 01/09/2017 at 08:15

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Except that it did have meaning, even if he says it didn’t. In his own words :

“FAB stands for absolutely nothing! In the Sixties when the series was made the abbreviation “fab” as in “fabulous” was all the rage and I just changed it a bit.”

Sylivia Anderson confirmed this :

“The definitive answer came from Sylvia Anderson herself during a promotional tour of her book. It was something they made up on the spur of the moment during a writing session, Sylvia says, and it was never intended to stand for anything other than to spell out the letters of a popular British slang word—”fab”—during that era. Many people have attempted to find other meanings (“Filed, Actioned, Briefed”, “Fine—Acknowledge Broadcast”), but it never meant anything other than “fabulous”.”

So it was based on the slang, but “just changed a bit.” I call BS. He knew damn well what it meant and wanted to capitalize on the slang to make the show seem more hip. Now that fab has fallen out of favor, it just confuses the younger generations.

Frank Grimes > TheRealBicycleBuck 01/09/2017 at 13:50

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no. what you wrote makes no sense.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Frank Grimes 01/09/2017 at 14:50

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Let me shorten my reply.

“... spell out the letters of a popular British slang word—”fab”—during that era.” - Sylvia Anderson, co-creator of the T.V. Series, Thunderbirds. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Anderson )