...So that's where they all came from!
I remember the Beyond the Fringe Sketch about putting your head in a brown paper bag, and I'm sure in the '50s we were told to get under the kitchen table if the Russians dropped the Bomb!
Re: Kiss your Arse goodby. I always mutter this at the end of the safety demo on planes. I understand the brace position is not to save you ,just preserve your teeth for identification later (wouldn't work for me, last at dentist in 1969).
Fascinating Aida have a song abour kissing your arse goodbye if the bomb drops, I keep meaning to try to learn it.
RtS
(NOT RTS)