# Noble Infinite Eagle Justice. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796 "2001-09-20T15:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/21 "2001-09-20T20:16:38Z")
Thank God I don’t have an officemate right now - if I did, he’d be wondering what sort of seizure has overtaken me…first **Angel** ’s post, then **Podkayne** ’s…and finally **thinksnow** with the _coup de grace_! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/22 "2001-09-20T22:09:17Z")
The greatest thing about that comment is that **BunnyGirl** is on vacation and by the time she gets back, this thread should be out of sight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/23 "2001-09-20T22:31:57Z")
Were it my decision, I’d be inclined to take the best from coosa & Ravendriver’s suggestions, and go with **Operation Desert Whoopass**. It’s perfect…it carries on the ‘Desert’ theme, AND has that down-home Texas twang that makes it uniquely Dubya’s. AotL: military ops which mention bunnies are historically doomed to escalate until Weapons of Mass Destruction are used. (ref. ‘Monty Python/Holy Grail’) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/24 "2001-09-20T23:00:20Z")
Aren’t operation names supposed to be random? I thought they ran them through a computer and came up with what they come up with. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/25 "2001-09-20T23:07:29Z")
I like the suggestion Rosebud had in another thread. Taliboom ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/26 "2001-09-20T23:08:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > **Aren’t operation names supposed to be random? I thought they ran them through a computer and came up with what they come up with.** Well originally, sure…but ‘Operation:VELVET DIPTHONG’ doesn’t lend itself to memorabilia. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/27 "2001-09-21T01:01:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apotheosis \* > **Were it my decision, I’d be inclined to take the best from coosa & Ravendriver’s suggestions, and go with Operation Desert Whoopass.** Synchronicity: as of a few minutes ago, 19:56 CDT, Phil Hendrie officially endorsed ‘Operation Kickass.’ ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/28 "2001-09-21T01:18:42Z")
Another suggestion, courtesy of [url link=“[http://www.boortz.com/nealznuz.htm](http://www.boortz.com/nealznuz.htm)”]Neil Boortz: > [@](#): > > **Here’s an idea. Let’s go back to Admiral Yamamoto, the Japanese military leader who planned and executed the attack on Pearl Harbor. Let’s call this campaign “Terrible Resolve.”** ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/29 "2001-09-21T01:26:53Z")
C’mon, thinksnow, you know durn well you’re going to bump this thread the day she gets back from vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/30 "2001-09-21T01:40:31Z")
> [@](#): > > AotL: military ops which mention bunnies are historically doomed to escalate until Weapons of Mass Destruction are used. (ref. ‘Monty Python/Holy Grail’) \*\* In that line of reasoning, why don’t we just call it **Operation Holy Hand Grenade**? Shoot, I’d support anything with that name. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/31 "2001-09-21T01:45:21Z")
Speaking strictly as a copy editor, should that be WHOOPASS or WHUPASS? For our newspaper’s style book, of course. Takes just as much effort to get things right as wrong, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Fyodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/32 "2001-09-21T02:54:28Z")
During WWII Winston Churchill intervened in the naming of military operations and a lot of effort was made to assemble a vast list of appropriate words that could be used. The most well known are the words from D-Day, “Overlord” “Sword” Juno" etc. Churchill’s main concern was that families of soldiers killed did not have to live with the memory of their son dying for something with a name that lacked dignity…Operation “Jester” or “Circus”. Churchill’s comment on his devotion of energy to such a seemingly trivial matter was: “The successful and effective administration manifests itself in small as well as great matters”. ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/33 "2001-09-21T05:30:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > \*\* > If this involves as many countries as it seems it’s going to, both on the side fighting terrorism and those where terrorist elements exist, **World War III** is probably the most apt name. > \*\* _sigh_ Probably the most accurate name. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/34 "2001-09-21T06:51:42Z")
Sigh, **Al** , how I wish that _someone_ connected with this administration had half the literary talent that Churchill had! Then, at least, we’d have Bush out there giving better speeches than what he has of late. I hate to say it, but I think that historians are going to have a hard time glorifying this war, no matter how correct it might be. Why couldn’t they call this “Operation Thunderstrike” or something equally dramatic? ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/35 "2001-09-21T07:04:01Z")
I nominate **Operation Desert Storm II: Electric Boogaloo** ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/36 "2001-09-21T07:31:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **Then, at least, we’d have Bush out there giving better speeches than what he has of late.** I’ll admit I’m biased, but I thought he did a fairly good job this evening. > [@](#): > > \*\*Why couldn’t they call this “Operation Thunderstrike” or something equally dramatic? \*\* Because FACs wanted to call in A-10 strikes with **“TAKE OFF EVERY HOG FOR INFINITE JUSTICE”**. [sub] saddam: what happen? osama: someone set us up the bomb! bush: all your ass are belong to U.S. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Doc\_Nickel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@Doc\_Nickel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doc_Nickel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/37 "2001-09-21T09:43:13Z")
Since this thread has degenerated somewhat, I feel comfortable jumping in and adding the obvious: **Operation Can Opener** (Y’know, ‘open a can of…’ … never mind.) **Operation Insinuated Rhetoric** Too highbrow? We could also use **Inflammatory Rhetoric** and **Hyperbolic Rhetoric**. **Operation Untenable Demands** Too obvious? **Operation Maximum Violence** or maybe **Operation Maximum Bloodshed** Kinda says it all. **Operation Return To Sender** A little more apt. **Operation Big Fuckin’ Hammer** “Prepare to initiate Operation Big Fuckin’ Hammer!” Heck, I’d _pay_ to see that on CNN! 😃 **Operation Fresh Fruit** or perhaps **Operation Pointy Stick** For you Monty Python fans. **Operation Do The Dew** Corporate sponsorship! Just what every war needs. I still like **Operation Fused-Glass Wasteland** but I used that one already. **Operation: Operation** Get the tweezers, troops, we’re after his funnybone! **Operation Goat Flatulence** Okay, now I’m reaching… ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/38 "2001-09-21T10:10:31Z")
I’m partial to [Operation Nuke the Fuckers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1630400#post1630400) myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Ned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ned)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/39 "2001-09-21T13:30:41Z")
Well, nothing could be worse than cnn’s “america’s new war”. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796/40 "2001-09-21T13:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ned \* > \*\*Well, nothing could be worse than cnn’s “america’s new war”. \*\* Agreed. Everytime I see “America’s New War,” I expect it to be followed by “Now with Long-Lasting Flavor Crystals!” Seriously, though…thanks to all who responded. It’s good to see that I’m not the only one a bit disturbed by the way this is being sanitized, shrink-wrapped, and shoveled out the door. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noble-infinite-eagle-justice/82796.md?page=3)