THUNDERBIRDS

[Boond]

watched an old tape today....so good!...the jerky puppets, the cheap tacky models...sigh i miss that show

 

by the way anyone remember what FAB stands for....i only remeber Fast As B...

[ToadMan]

no clue on FAB...

 

Have you ever seen Stingray, or even Fireball XL5?

 

Thunderbirds is cool... but I haven't seen it in forever... I don't get the only channel it is broadcast on ;)

 

Peace

[Boond]

lol...im such a nerd i own four thunderbird tapes, lost one though...and i have the toys from when i was a kid...grand stuff...

 

and i recall seeing two other puppet shows...one had a submarine...and i think one had an indestructable man

 

does anyone know anything about the thunderbird movie?

[Crusader]

Directed by Johnathon Frakes (Commander/Captain Riker from Star Trek: Next Generation).

 

It's gonna be a stupid kid's movie.... http://www.thunderbirdsmovie.com/enter.html

 

It's out July 30th!!

[Boond]

damn i was afraid of that!

[S.E. Hardy]

The trailer for the movie is awful.

[Boond]

oh well, i have my memories...and cassettes...goodtimes

[ToadMan]

The show with the submarine would have probably been Stingray.

 

Well that looks thoroughly unimpressive. Even as a bad kid's movie.

 

Total abuse of the concept.

 

Peace

[Mouko]

Stingray ruled.

 

Aqua-Marinaaaa~!

 

FAB was an affirmative of some kind...

[Boond]

lol i know, "fast as B------" cant remember the last bit

 

 

oh and i saw the full trailer for the thunderbirds movie, and while it is a kid movie, it might actually be decent (thunderbirds afterall was a kids tv show). besides they cept the count down and the tradiional looks for the ships....ill see it no matter how bad it sucks

[The Foot]

Movie would hav been funny if they used puppets

[primetime_deliverance]

Rofl, I'm pretty sure its Fine Acknowledged Broadcast.

 

Well my coolness factor has gone WAY up with this post...

[Crusader]

Movie would hav been funny if they used puppets

So true. That puppet movie by the South Park guys is going to be a hit.

[running4home]

my dad does this really funny thunderbirds face he says him and his buddys used to practice making thunderbirds faces while watching it saturday morning over beer and cornflakes

[Boond]

thats pretty cool

 

and ben if you can back that up you get $100 NF dollars....

 

and yes your coolness has improved

[primetime_deliverance]

Q: What does FAB stand for?

 

Gerry: I put it into the first show of Thunderbirds as I couldn't bear the pilot to say 'Roger, received the message and understood.' In the 1960s the buzzword was fabulous. Everything was fabulous, so instead of 'Roger' I thought they could say 'fab'. Then I heard controller in Thunderbirds say 'reduce height to 1000 feet, fab' and it didn't sound right so I changed it to 'F.A.B.' and that's all there was to it. It doesn't mean anything. But for the last 35 years people keep saying what does it mean so asked the makers of Colllins dictionaries to put it in the dictionary.

 

how sad =(

I blame YTV.

Edited August 31, 2004 by primetime_deliverance

[Boond]

that makes me sad as well...all those years of wondering what it was...and when i was young and make believing i was an International rescue person and saying that, and it meant nothing!!!booo

 

the child in me died some more

 

and the prize is yours!!!

Edited August 31, 2004 by Boond

[primetime_deliverance]

Excellent.

 

The hole in my heart has been filled with money.

[Boond]

well intangible net money with very limited worth...but money non-the-less