Everyone think they know what this acronym stands for. It’s in fact universally known! But it’s #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT
Music:
Big Announcement – Out To The World
Don’t Leave Me Hanging – Christian Andersen
Running Time – Out To The World
Espionage – Deskant
Footage:
Department of Defense
National Archives
Videoblocks
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S.U.S.
sos
sus
When early phone systems were being developed, operators would answer with "Well, are you there?" Instead of the colloquially used "Hello?".
SUS
What about maide.
S U S
I thought it meant “SIGNAL OF SURVIVAL”
Yay this was a three in one
Save our Souls!
And never Zee, but Zed. Breaking concrete blocks as made up the Submarines Pens!
0:46 do you have the video of this ship
In Key West where repo men sit atop their houses waiting to hear the call, they may argue that it stands for, "salvage our scuttle."
Or "shoot the survivors" if one was a little too ambitious to get at that wreck
From what I heard bite the bullet came from the american civil war when soldiers had to bite the bullet off of a paper cartridge to load there rifle
What about "pan pan" for airplanes ?
Save our souls, knew that
How about sus
Hmm, my whole life I thought it was save our souls
Some early paper musket cartridges were bitten open, learned about it in history because the British East India Company used them and some people got upset because they were sealed with lard or smth
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Its S U S
I've heard totally different story about the "bite the bullet" thing. When era of muzzle loading fire arms particularly when they start using "minie" ball bullets solders packed their bullets in separate wrappings. each single wrap contains a one bullet and measured amount of gun powder. When they were loading the gun they just bite off the bullet end of the wrapping to open it up. Then pour the gun powder in to the muzzle and then follow with the bullet. I don't know which one is the better interpretation anyway thanks for that block buster thing.
sus
Sauce
Grandpa once told me a young boy that SOS men save our souls.
SOS stands for Save Our Souls
JR
Re: blockbuster, the term Bikini for swimwear has a similar origin for "high impact", with the bomb in question being used in a nuclear test on Bikini Atoll.
Interesting , Thank You
does it not mean Save Our Ship?
They are just the easiest letters in morse afaik.
0:52 That explosion was rather unexpected in scale.
Dud you know that 3 square meal a day comes from british navy. The crews were served meals in square trays. Also the 9 yards refers to the total length of .303 ammo belts in a WW2 spitfire fighter.
As a german I knew this
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My mom said it stood for shit on a shingle
What is it that we can see at 2:46 ?
Where to get full footage of 3:50 the WW2 footage?
So bite the bullet is also thought to come from the days of the old paper cartridges for smoothbore muskets. You would bite the bullet off the end of the paper cartridge to rip it open so you could then pour some powder into the flash pan and then down into the barrel before inserting the remaining paper and the ball round ( bullet ) into it and ramming it down with the ram rod.