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On Jun 6, 10:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
cavedweller wrote in news:ecad1ae9-5348-4dfc-b881- : On Jun 5, 11:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Actually, "Foo" came from Smokey Stover, and was a corruption of the french "feux" ( Smokey was a fireman) He called himself a "Foo fighter" and juxtaposed with the term UFO (which at the beginning of it's life just meant anything that pilots couldn't identify and had nothing to do with little gray men) a UFO became a foo fighter to USAAC pilots in WW2. While I'm sure the Forward Observation Officer thing is also true, Smokey Stover was really popular at the time and was the source of a large number of slang words used during the war. I always loved his car! Bertie Notary Sojac (from memory...not Googled) Oh yeah! Have no idea what that meant! I looked up his website a few years back for some reason. He had loads of weird sayings that probably meant something or another to older guys of the WW2 generation. He almost certainly decorated a few airplanes in WW2 as well.. Bertie There IS a Wiki article. Bring back Pogo, too. |
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cavedweller wrote in
: On Jun 6, 10:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: cavedweller wrote in news:ecad1ae9-5348-4dfc-b881- : On Jun 5, 11:21 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Actually, "Foo" came from Smokey Stover, and was a corruption of the french "feux" ( Smokey was a fireman) He called himself a "Foo fighter" and juxtaposed with the term UFO (which at the beginning of it's life just meant anything that pilots couldn't identify and had nothing to do with little gray men) a UFO became a foo fighter to USAAC pilots in WW2. While I'm sure the Forward Observation Officer thing is also true, Smokey Stover was really popular at the time and was the source of a large number of slang words used during the war. I always loved his car! Bertie Notary Sojac (from memory...not Googled) Oh yeah! Have no idea what that meant! I looked up his website a few years back for some reason. He had loads of weird sayings that probably meant something or another to older guys of the WW2 generation. He almost certainly decorated a few airplanes in WW2 as well.. Bertie There IS a Wiki article. Bring back Pogo, too. Pogo, I never got into. It was one of the few, along with Mary Worth and Mandrake, I skipped. B.C, the Wizard of Id, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy. It was, by far, always the most intelligent part of any newspaper.. |
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On Jun 6, 11:08 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Pogo, I never got into. It was one of the few, along with Mary Worth and Mandrake, I skipped. B.C, the Wizard of Id, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy. It was, by far, always the most intelligent part of any newspaper.. In B.C., my fave was "Curls". I have one of Pogo's later strips framed. In it he muses on the prospect that the world won't end "...with a bang, but a wither" |
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If you guys just want to set around and kill time talking about any topic
that come into your head, maybe you all need CB radios. This is an aviaition group for pilots. |
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On Jun 6, 12:24 pm, "Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote:
If you guys just want to set around and kill time talking about any topic that come into your head, maybe you all need CB radios. This is an aviaition group for pilots. Roger that. It's also for "aviation" guys too, innit? |
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"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
: If you guys just want to set around and kill time talking about any topic that come into your head, maybe you all need CB radios. This is an aviaition group for pilots. Oh, I thought it was for whiney little turds like you to make assholes out of themselves. Maybe that's what wider usenet in general is for. Bertie |
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On Jun 6, 11:48 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
In B.C., my fave was "Curls". That was the cute girl, was it? Naw...he was the "hunk". Had a wavy pompadour hairdo. Guess I was too young for it and never got the pogo habit. It was serialised, wasnt it? More or less. Walt Kelly would get on a theme and carry it on for a few days or weeks. |
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote: cavedweller wrote in news:0abea02b-3d1c-4777-820c- : On Jun 6, 11:48 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: In B.C., my fave was "Curls". That was the cute girl, was it? Naw...he was the "hunk". Had a wavy pompadour hairdo. OK. She was just cute girl ( as opposed to the fat one?) i think one of the most expressive puppets on tv is molly on the big comfy couch arf meow arf - raggedy ann and andy for president and vice limp and spineless lint for brains is better yet and nice then rueing pair of shrub and dick the republican lice call me desdenova seven seven seven seven seven seven |
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