Monday, April 05, 2004
Fun with operation names
"The operation, code-named 'Vigilant Resolve'"....
Man, these overcompensatingly macho, testesterone-fuelled, and totally Orwellian "operation" names are getting to be too much. Back in the day, these names were just random words, put together for security purposes. I wish we could return to that practice, to make the news just a little less noxious, and to stop the news anchors from having to say them with a straight face. Except for FUX, of course. They can say anything with a straight face.
Maybe we could start inventing some "Operation" names for ourselves. I'll start:
Operation Fragrant Weasel—for the dirty tricks program The Goon Squad at the RNC is running (Arizona; Kerry's FBI files.
Operation Mellifluous Footwear—for Bush's Olympic-event-grade "flipflops" (back) on the 9/11 commission, and elsewhere.
Operation Xanax Cowboy... 'Nuff said.
Readers?
NOTE From a suggestion by alert reader ... Mellifluous.
UPDATE More up here.
Man, these overcompensatingly macho, testesterone-fuelled, and totally Orwellian "operation" names are getting to be too much. Back in the day, these names were just random words, put together for security purposes. I wish we could return to that practice, to make the news just a little less noxious, and to stop the news anchors from having to say them with a straight face. Except for FUX, of course. They can say anything with a straight face.
Maybe we could start inventing some "Operation" names for ourselves. I'll start:
Operation Fragrant Weasel—for the dirty tricks program The Goon Squad at the RNC is running (Arizona; Kerry's FBI files.
Operation Mellifluous Footwear—for Bush's Olympic-event-grade "flipflops" (back) on the 9/11 commission, and elsewhere.
Operation Xanax Cowboy... 'Nuff said.
Readers?
NOTE From a suggestion by alert reader ... Mellifluous.
UPDATE More up here.
