Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:59 pm
Yes. Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:02 pm
Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip. Spoilsports.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:04 pm
Well, Operation Desert Storm was the Gulf War right? So what is Operation Iraqi Freedom going to be called? Gulf War II?Rochey wrote:Yes. Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:05 pm
Say what?Captain Seafort wrote:Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip. Spoilsports.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:06 pm
Freudian slip? Where?Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.
My friend, Alex, suggested Gulf War 2: America strikes back.Well, Operation Desert Storm was the Gulf War right? So what is Operation Iraqi Freedom going to be called? Gulf War II?
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:09 pm
Look at the initials.Rochey wrote:Freudian slip? Where?Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:21 pm
I honestly burst out in laughter after reading that!
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:22 pm
OILCaptain Seafort wrote:Look at the initials.Rochey wrote:Freudian slip? Where?Which was changed from Operation Iraqi Liberation after someone noticed the Freudian slip.
hmm...I'm young so...how is this a Freudian slip? Is it an acronym for something else?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:23 pm
No, O-I-L spells "oil". Hence the hilarity. 
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:35 pm
Hence the hilarity of the Iraq war being refered to with the initials "oil".
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:37 pm
Okay, I guess that's where I got confusedRochey wrote:That's how the phrase originated, but it can mean any phrase where you say something else accidently.
Posted: 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
It's slightly abridged from the version I quoted earlier, but very well done by Kenneth Branagh