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Topic: Horrido! What's It Mean?
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Groucho
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posted 12-11-2002 04:46 PM
   
OK, we WWII sim types have all heard the Luftwaffe battle radio call of "Horrido!". But, does anyone know what it means or what its origins as a battle cry are?Seriously, I wanna know. Besides, it would make a WAY cool personalized plate on my new car...  -------------------- Bob "Groucho" Marks
"Si ego certiorem faciam...mihi tu delendus eris"
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Sulla
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posted 12-11-2002 09:35 PM
Well if you tell me what Tally-Ho means then I think we'll have the answer.  -------------------- "What we do in life, echoes in Eternity" "Strength and Honour" "At my signal, unleash Hell"
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Groucho
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posted 12-11-2002 10:59 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Sulla:
Well if you tell me what Tally-Ho means then I think we'll have the answer.
Touche'. OK, I'll stop thinking so damned much.
quote:
Don't blame me, blame Babelfish! I was only reporting my findings...
No blame, my man! Thanks for sticking that fish in your ear!  -------------------- Bob "Groucho" Marks
"Si ego certiorem faciam...mihi tu delendus eris"
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posted 12-12-2002 01:28 AM
Horrido is a Latin word meaning frightful or frightening. Perhaps the Luftwaffe meant for it to mean "Fear me!" You know, in a Samuel L. Jackson Pulp Fiction sort of way.Ah, but alas, I really don't know anything . . . found this in (of all places) the EAW newsgroup: quote:
Horrido is a hunting expresion used in [G]ermany. It is a greeting like "good afternoon or howdy...." and it is also used in letting someone live up (I think you don't say that in [E]nglish).... anyway , like the [E]nglish speaking say: "Hip hip" and the answer is "Hooray". German hunters say "Horrido" and the cro[w]d answers "Yo".
So, there you go  -------------------- Douglas Helmer
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Groucho
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posted 12-12-2002 09:26 AM
Yo! Thanks, Doug! That's what I was looking for. quote:
Originally posted by Bismarck:
I affirm Doug's answer. Horrido is the equivalent of Tally Ho.
Errr...not quite. Tally-Ho means you have the aircraft in question visually...still used by us general aviation types when calling out traffic; as in "Tally-ho on the traffic, Twin Beech at 9 o'clock high". Thanks for the help, everybody! -------------------- Bob "Groucho" Marks
"Si ego certiorem faciam...mihi tu delendus eris"
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The Quiet Man
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posted 12-12-2002 10:12 AM
My understanding was the RAF used Tally Ho! as more of a rallying cry. "There's those Jerry Rotters, let's get them!" kind of thing.Horrido! was called after a kill had been made to bring attention to the kill. This way a German pilot's squad mates could confirm the kill visually, and comply with the stringent requirements needed for the kill to be added to a pilot's combat record. TQM -------------------- "En boca cerrada, no entran moscas".
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Groucho
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posted 12-12-2002 04:51 PM
Soooooooooo...we're agreed then. Horrido is German for Cowabunga!Works for me! -------------------- Bob "Groucho" Marks
"Si ego certiorem faciam...mihi tu delendus eris"
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posted 12-12-2002 08:20 PM
Taz,Yes, we are a strange, albeit extremely funny, group. I would love to get the regular crowd from here into one room just once (yeah, yeah, I know I missed ELF 2000! D'oh!). Still, if possible, it'd be too friggin' funny to get all the regular forum boys and girls together for a couple of days and get 'em all snapped up on Rolling Thingmies. What a hoot that'd be, eh? Ah, I can see it now . . . [drifts off into a misty-eyed reverie . . .]. Yep! Good times! -------------------- Douglas Helmer
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Groucho
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posted 12-19-2002 09:56 AM
Got what I think is an answer, for those who care. From the "Glossary of Luftwaffe" at http://home.att.net/~jv44/luft_glossary.htm: quote:
Pilots' cry of victory. St. Horridus was patron saint of fighter pilots.
Sounds good to me! -------------------- Bob "Groucho" Marks
"Si ego certiorem faciam...mihi tu delendus eris"
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Edwin Rommel
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posted 12-20-2002 01:01 AM
Horrido meanz "Zhe horror, zhe horror"- schtole zhe line und uzed it in an AMI film later on! It alzo meanz "ich juzt sheissed on mein seat" in an old Croatian dialect -------------------- Feldmarschall Edwin Rommel
Zhose who live by zhe sword...... get shot by zhose vho don't.
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