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Apr 22, 2013 · A couple of callers to an LBC radio show a few years ago cited these answers: Answer: I used to collect all Thunderbirds comic books and in one issue only, FAB stood For Always Brothers. I once won a competition in Smash Hits magazine with this very answer! Answer: It means Fully Audible Broadcast.
Ever wondered what FAB means and why International Rescue adopted it as a code? Jeff Tracy has the answers! Voiced by Jon Culshaw, written and directed by An...
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A term used frequently in Thunderbirds, fans often think it stands for some kind of acknowledgement. The phrase is also used in wider popular culture, and in...
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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.
Link 13, International Rescue's head of communications, also put forward that F.A.B. was occasionally used to mean a mission instruction had been Filed by onboard systems, Actioned by the agent, and Banked at the Tracy Island mainframe..
F.A.B. never stood for anything, ever. Like Grandma Tracy, the real-world production team behind Thunderbirds based it off of 'fabulous', which was a popular byword during the 1960s. Although that never stopped people from trying to fit meaning to them - the letters are often, but incorrectly, thought to mean either 'Fully Acknowledged Broadcast' or 'Fully Advised and Briefed'.
The confusion regarding the codeword would eventually be brought in-universe, at least in the world of Thunderbirds Are Go!. In Extraction, after Robert Williams and his son are rescued from a methane pit, he directly asks what the codeword means, but, to his bewilderment, is only met with laughter as a response. In fact, Thunderbirds Are Go! would later introduce a second codeword - R.A.D., used by Brains, which was similarly based off of 'radical'.
Aug 31, 2016 · The official version of the origin of FAB (from Gerry Anderson himself) is: that the term "FAB" refers to the use of "Fab" as a sixties thing, such as: the Beatles, "the Fab Four".: Anderson repeatedly said that FAB had no meaning, fab == a contraction of: fabulous was in _very_ widespread use at the time.
- FAB does not stand for anything, it is a shortened version of 'fabulous'. http://www.thunderbirdsonline.co.uk/ The official version of the origin...
- The characters use the radio sign-off "F. A. B." rather than "Roger" or "Over and out". Anderson was often asked what F. A. B. stood for, but in fa...
- "FAB" was used by radio operators in WW2 and is not short for "fabulous" in this context. The acronym means 'Fully Acknowledged Broadcast" and was...
Aug 30, 2016 · 8. In Gerry Anderson's 'Thunderbirds' (1965-66), the Tracy brothers (Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon and Alan) would respond on the radio. "F.A.B." meaning 'affirmative' or 'understood'. There are many theories as to the meaning to this acronym. While watching 'The Right Stuff', I noted that Virgil Grissom would respond to the other astronauts with ...
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Jun 19, 2021 · A term of acknowledgement used frequently in Thunderbirds, some fans think the three letters must stand for three particular words. In this video, we explore just what F.A.B. means! Previous postThunderbirds: Cold Fury! - A Gerry Anderson A21 News Story.
