Sky 1 or interceptor?

Maybe Straker picked it up, together with a load of other colloquialisms
whilst in and around England, London and the Harlington-Straker film
studios, which would have to use all the 'current' in words and phrases in
their scripts... :)

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[hidden email] wrote:

> I was always intrigued by Straker's expression, he's out of it. It
> presumably being life.
>
> What other catch phrases did UFO give us, come to think of it? Straker
> contributed a lot of memorable lines like that.
>

Actually "he's out of it" is a familiar English slang expression, so it
was probably an error to have Straker say it.

>Maybe Straker picked it up, together with a load of other colloquialisms
whilst in and around England, London and the Harlington-Straker film
studios, which would have to use all the 'current' in words and phrases in
their scripts... :)

That 'out of it' thing used to confuse me a bit at first - where I grew up
in Fife that meant someone had collapsed from drinking too much. [got used
a lot]

Jess

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> What other catch phrases did UFO give us, come to think of it? Straker
> contributed a lot of memorable lines like that.
>
> Amelia
>
>
>


In Staker's office;

Freeman - "One Thing still bothers me......"

Straker - "I should be so lucky."


episode escapes me, but thought it cool at the time...

Dave H

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> know? I believe that the expression 'buying the farm' 'or he bought the
farm'
> may have come from wartime.
>
> Amelia (who likes slang) http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/farm.htm
>


I heard that "....Buying the Farm...." was an old aviation term slang
(stemming from someone having an accident or damaging something, then having
to buy it, like in a store).

In this context the pilot has an accident, which is so devastating that
the farm he crashes into is completely destroyed, thus causing him to have
to "buy the farm"....
Naturally the crash kills the pilot.

Maybe a stretch, but it came from an old flight instructor....

Dave H

The phrase "Bought the farm" come from the World War Two. The reason was
that the money from the military insurance of the person killed was usually
enought to buy the land the family was living on by paying off the mortgage(which
by the way means death pledge) which for so many was a farm. So saying "He
bought the farm" meant he died.

James K.


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I must admit I as always rather surprised at how accepting both Straker and
Henderson were on discovering that the Project Discovery mission was a
failure and that a billion dollars had gone down the drain... ...on the
other hand (at risk of resurrecting an old subject;) I have never believed
that the images from the B142 were worthless... I've always had suspicions
that Kelly may have rigged the B142 in order to raise interests in his pet
projects... I've also wondered at the short-sightedness of the fact that the
B142 was only using visible spectrum scanning (as opposed to infra-red,
spectrometers, radars altimeters etc etc)... why they had to install a
camera in the B142 when there was already one in orbit in a B142 that took
the test pictures in the first place... how did that one get launched...
maybe Straker has been saving the pennies from his non-drinking... mmm...
lots of niggling things that bug me in that episode... still like it
though... especially the Straker/Ellis/Foster scene... Paul Fosters
expression is priceless as he halts when entering the sphere...

Best to all, Griff

That's all from me for a few weeks... away on assignment until late July...
Be good All!

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In a message dated 6/25/2003 11:24:21 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[hidden email] writes:

> I heard that "....Buying the Farm...." was an old aviation term slang
> (stemming from someone having an accident or damaging something, then
having
> to buy it, like in a store).

I'd hate to be an Interceptor pilot that dented his craft, and have Straker
tell him that....;-D

Amelia


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<<I've always had
suspicions
that Kelly may have rigged the B142 in order to raise
interests in his
pet
projects..>>

Suspicions? I have ALWAYS felt that was the case! He
sabotaged it to make a point (even though Straker
didn't catch on at the time.). Maybe later they found
out and docked Kelly's pay for the billion.

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