Quote Originally Posted by tonyive View Post
You have to be a Brit or lived in the UK for a long time. Nobody else will know what a "fag packet" sketch is. I can see political correctness rearing its ugly head anytime now. I do like your simple solutions to a potentially dangerous problem.
A Brit?! Bite your tongue. Lovely country but not mine.

I lived in Germany for a while in Bremen which was, of course, in the British zone of occupation. Through my work there and in Paris with British colleagues, I picked up a bit of the jargon. However, "fag packet sketch" comes from several of the denizens of a few of the model engineering fora I follow regularly.