Forby = Four by two

Four by two rhymes with 'Jew' (two / Jew) as in 'he's a four be two.'

see: http://www.johnbarber.com/cockneyindex.html

Doh.... I'm really brain dead when it comes to asking these things....
So once again.... I yield to those whom are better at asking these sort of questions.... besides it much more fun searching my senile mind..... and i got to watch out for what I may find in the corners under the cob-webs......some of it is down right frightening ........ :-) :-) :-) :-)

Forby equals four by two? Hmmm. If this is the size of a piece of lumber over here we refer to that as a two by four. Four by two rhymes with Jew. I guess that makes sense.

I'm still blown away by G.O.Ms answer to that question. I am amazed that somebody could push a jet with another jet for any distance at all.

Rodger, 'four by two' also relates to the piece of cloth used to clean rifles with.


As part of Operation Diver (countering V1s) AAA (anti-aircraft guns) guns were redeployed. With the advent from Red-Lab of the radar-based automatic gunlaying, and the proximity fuse, the kill rate by anti-aircraft guns on Buzzbombs rose to ±75%.


Here’s a quote from Wikipedia, as to the measures taken against the V1 in the ‘special defence zone’.

“The Tempest wing was built up to over 100 aircraft by September; Griffon-engined Spitfire XIVs and Mustangs were polished and tuned to make them almost fast enough, and during the short summer nights the Tempests shared defensive duty with Mosquitoes. Specially modified P-47 Thunderbolts (P-47Ms) with half their fuel tanks, half their 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, all external fittings and all their armor plate removed were also pressed into service against the V-1 menace. (There was no need for radar—at night the V-1's engine could be seen from 16 km (10 mile) or more away.)”

ALSO

“A deception concerning the V-1 was played on the Germans using double agents. M.I.5 arranged for these agents to provide Germany with damage reports for the June 1944 V-1 attacks which implied that on average the bombs were travelling too far, while not contradicting the evidence presumed to be available to German planners from photographic reconnaissance of London. In fact the bombs had been seeded with radio-transmitting samples to confirm their range, but the results from these samples were ignored in favour of the false eye-witness accounts, and many lives may have been saved by the resulting tendency of future V-1 bombs to fall short of built up areas.”

Here’s an easy one! The term "quisling" is synonymous in many European languages for traitor.

Why is this, and what deed brought this about?

Comes from Vidking Quisling, leader of the Nazi sympathisers in Norway, and "leader" of the government after the German invasion of Norway.

Correct (in part) Dave.

Quisling became the first person in history to announce a coup during a news broadcast, declaring an ad-hoc government during the confusion of the invasion of Norway!

Over to you Dave!

|-|4R|)COR3 Bump... lol

A little late for bumping?

Rob :-)

Here's an easy one:

Which actor in "The Longest Day" actually took part in the action he commanded in the movie? Name the action and the actor. Bonus points for naming his unit.

I think that was Richard Todd 6th Airborne

Chris tango 20

sorry and it was Pegasus Bridge
Chris Tango 20

Tom

Neither one......

HINT: British Army, and he's not listed in your list.

Iam sure it was Richard Todd 6 airborne pegasus bridge

Chris

You are correct. Now for an OD coloured kewpie doll, can you name the regiment?

Hi mate it was the Oxford and Buckinhamshire Light Infantary,
cHEERS CHRIS

Chris

Correct....now over to you

Hi all
A short time before the D-Day invasion a number of x word compilers from a famous news paper in London were arrested and held in isolation untill the invasion was well under away
Why were they held and how were they thought to be helping the Germans
Cheers chris

Various clues in the crosswords identified codenames for beaches, mulberries etc.

Your go well done mate
Cheers chris do you know what PLUTO stood for

Pipe Line Under The Ocean
Constructed to carry POL supplies under the Channel, as it was thought that Tankers would be too suscebtible to Aerial or subsuface attack, as well as the vagaries of weather.

Hey guys!We had "vacations"??Lets start again!

Ok... I have one... Question, that is.

In WW2, the germans Developed a weapons system called the 'Vampir'. What was it and what weapon was it used on?

Rob