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 fact it simply stood for "fab" (short for "fabulous"), a 1960s catchphrase. Later this was unofficially decided to mean Fully Advised and Briefed, following on from P-W-O-R (Proceeding With Orders Received), a similar radio confirmation code in the series Stingray. In Anderson's next series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, S.I.G. (Spectrum is Green) would continue the tradition of initialled call signs.
Took me some googling.... Alfred -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Robert Meek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 25 april 2007 13:38 Aan: Delphi-Talk Onderwerp: Two questions about Thunderbird I had taken your suggestions and finally decided upon replacing the lousy newsgroup app that came with Vista and am now using Thunderbird instead. I like it a lot, however I just noticed a problem that I don't seem able to fix! With Outlook Express there was a setting allowing you to show only new unread messages as they came in when ever you opened a particular group. After 5 seconds, any opened message in that group was considered "read" and so didn't show up again unless you did a search for it. In Thunderbird I cannot seem to find a setting for this and each morning I keep getting the same messages over and over whether I've read them or not. Is there a solution to this I haven't come across? Also, if anyone remembers the old Puppet TV show called "Thunderbirds" which came out from the same guy in England that previously did one called, "Fireball XL500", a sci-fi puppet show of the same type, there was a three-letter acronym code response that all the characters used as an affirmation...FOB, or FOP...I'm not sure. But I saw an old re-run of one of the "Thunderbird" episodes while lying around in the hospital last month, ( You can only play around with the nurses for so long and then even THEY get boring! <g> ), and ever since I've been trying to remember what it actually stands for! This unimportant question will bug me for the rest of my life unless someone can help me with the answer! Thanx in advance! from Robert Meek dba "Tangentals Design" e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freelance Windows Programming for XP and Vista Also proud to be a Moderator of the "Delphi-List" at elists.org "Reality cannot be explained...only enjoyed or endured as your current perspective allows!" __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
