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Bombing of Madrid or Guernica in the Spanish Civil War?

When the convection currents really got going in the magma, and the tectonic plates started to rock and roll?

>How could I The Sweet ?<

Good call, McKay!

Does anyone remember when The Sweet were on TOTP and the drummer (can't remember his name) came on wearing - in the words of Jimmy Saville - a ladies chest restraining garment?

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I think we might be talking about Barnes Wallis's follow-up to the bouncing bomb. I saw in a documentary that a tunnel was so badly damaged they had to wait for peace to come before they could repair it.

I think that might have been called the blockbuster.

It wasn't American - It was British and it weighed 4,000lbs.

It was dropped on Essen Germany ~ what I can't find out is how the term moved from a bomb to a hit film.

was a blockbuster film one with a que that streatched all the way around the block????

Now that we have ascertained that a blockbuster was a bomb can I just comment that I love the irony of "movie speak"

Blockbuster = a big hit movie

Bomb = an absolute failure of a movie

And smash hits, of course.

Surely the terminology is along the lines of

Blockbuster = something with a huge impact (or big hit)

This can then be easily applied to either a large explosive device or anything else that impacts our lives