There are some nice Hawk photos on Hypercale right now here
http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/hawk75bp_1.htm

Is it just the British? I thought everyone hated them.

And since when has Al Bundy been British?

Give over John,

My point I think was fairly obvious – that the US television industry is still going down a track that has proven failure after failure, and that it seems so stupid that they would consider investing in these shows still after such a poor track record. It astounds me that they are even attempting a remake of The Office, something that could never be easily done, as Ricky Jervais is a unique individual and I feel it couldn’t even be recast in Britain, near alone America or anywhere else.

No, I was not saying all Americans are tasteless – quite the opposite, if they had such bad taste all these remakes would have succeeded, wouldn’t they? In the end there have only been a handful of real successes from this list.

The fact that I haven’t seen some of them reflects that they did so badly they couldn’t even convince networks abroad to buy them, and believe me, we have bought a lot of cheap rubbish over the years, like the ones you mentioned, CHiPs, Knight Rider, A-Team, Baywatch and several other kid’s shows.

So, please, don’t read into this my dispersions on your entire race as you always seem to. I was making a comment about the industry – not the viewers.

Many US shows are brilliant – The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Mash – all original ideas too.

Some of those American words I’d never heard of – what is cruller?

And, how can you say caramel with only two syllabes? Isn’t that camel??

After all Steve Paterson said about the USA not having roundabouts, it seems they do, but they call them rotaries. I’ve heard of rotary engines, rotary lawnmowers, rotary clothes lines, but never rotary roads. Or traffic circles either.

As for that easy class one, well here in NZ a gut is your belly, a blow-off is a fart, and crip course I cannot fathom. Does that mean somone as thick as a crip can pass it?

Where does Kitty Corner and Catty Corner come from for diagonal? I’ve never heard that one either. Some of these are fairly obscure references.

Y’all is one of the most vile words invented in my opinion, it makes my skin crawl.

JDK – cross posted there – is that for real? Why did they have to distinguish in this way?

Did the RAF also use them as torpedo carriers? Or were they in a different role like training gunners?

Thanks Nick. Looks great.