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Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:59 pm

Yes. Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:02 pm

Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip. Spoilsports.

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:04 pm

Rochey wrote:Yes. Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Well, Operation Desert Storm was the Gulf War right? So what is Operation Iraqi Freedom going to be called? Gulf War II?

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:05 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip. Spoilsports.

Say what?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:06 pm

Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.

Freudian slip? Where?

Well, Operation Desert Storm was the Gulf War right? So what is Operation Iraqi Freedom going to be called? Gulf War II?

My friend, Alex, suggested Gulf War 2: America strikes back.
It probably will end up being known as the Second Gulf War. Although it may simply be reffered to as 'Iraq', the same way Vietnam is just referred to by the name of the country.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:09 pm

Rochey wrote:
Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.
Freudian slip? Where?

Look at the initials.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:21 pm

I honestly burst out in laughter after reading that!

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:22 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:
Rochey wrote:
Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.
Freudian slip? Where?
Look at the initials.

OIL

hmm...I'm young so...how is this a Freudian slip? Is it an acronym for something else?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:23 pm

No, O-I-L spells "oil". Hence the hilarity.

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:26 pm

But I thought Freudian slips were sexual. Like saying penis instead of pen. Or breast instead of best.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:32 pm

That's how the phrase originated, but it can mean any phrase where you say something else accidently.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:34 pm

Well, it's how the phrase is usually taken, but in a more general sense it refers to an individual's true thoughts being revealed by a slip of the tongue.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:35 pm

Hence the hilarity of the Iraq war being refered to with the initials "oil".

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:37 pm

Rochey wrote:That's how the phrase originated, but it can mean any phrase where you say something else accidently.

Okay, I guess that's where I got confused

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:42 pm

The speech bit of the programme on YouTube.

It's slightly abridged from the version I quoted earlier, but very well done by Kenneth Branagh