The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

There is this legend that he used to grab these huge chunks of meat and started gnawing on them like he would on a hotdog or something like that at a Yankee game, except that other people were already dressed up and the meat and the gravy was flying over them as he just sort of walked around gnawing on this stuff.

据说他习惯用手抓着一大块肉,就像我们在看棒球比赛时吃热狗那样,狼吞虎咽,尽管别人都衣冠整齐,等着肉和酱汁端上来,而他却边啃着那些肉边四处游走

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"Your forces," he wrote, "fired this morning on a civilian ship flying the flag of my government.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Eagle was flying. Man had been on the moon for twenty-one and one-half hours.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

On August thirty-first, the Flying Cloud sailed into San Francisco Bay.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Goods and passengers had been loaded on the Flying Cloud.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The feathers on the flying model were made of plastic.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Earlier,on board his aircraft flying to Tokyo, Secretary Gates was more direct.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20