Military Codename Generator

September 23, 2001 2:30 PM

Military Codename Generator After Essential Harvest and Infinite Justice the pentagon will need some more names for sure. Here's a little helper.
posted by ronsens (15 comments total)

Everything needs a codename.
Let's call metafilter: Project screaming blue.
posted by fuq at 2:36 PM on September 23, 2001

I got "Maritime Thunder" for my air strike on Canada...go figure.
posted by mapalm at 2:46 PM on September 23, 2001

I got "Red Bat" & I like it so much I'm launching from Africa with nukes.
posted by realjanetkagan at 2:59 PM on September 23, 2001

Hmmm...somehow Operation "Pink Spring" just doesn't sound right for a nuclear attack on Central and Western Europe.
posted by jpoulos at 3:17 PM on September 23, 2001

Dance Of The Nine Angry Penises?!
How the fuck can it label my mercy supply run to Sudan Dance Of The Nine Angry Penises?

Shouldn't it be "Peni"?
posted by Hima Otsubusu at 3:26 PM on September 23, 2001

This machine is the equivalent of a $600 hammer being purchased for $1.95 at Walmart.
posted by Mack Twain at 4:06 PM on September 23, 2001

Cool! with very little URL modification, we can use this to name your military operations in cyberspace.
posted by otherchaz at 4:24 PM on September 23, 2001

Shouldn't it be "Peni"?

Actually, the plural of "penis" is "penes," or else "penises."

Apparently PENIS is also an acronym for Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy, or so says Dictionary.com's Acronym Finder.
posted by kindall at 4:24 PM on September 23, 2001

Well, I got "Garden Heaven" for my naval strike against Canada. But all "other Asian countries" had better fear my intercontinental missile strike; aka "Determined Hat."

(I know I'm already shaking in my boots).
posted by BurnedEve at 4:43 PM on September 23, 2001

all the ones i got sounded like Magic: The Gathering cards.
posted by lotsofno at 5:01 PM on September 23, 2001

Mah god, it's saredpenatrily revealed what all this hoople's just a front for: "a good codename for your nuclear strike in Australia: Infinite Justice"
posted by EngineBeak at 5:38 PM on September 23, 2001

More URL fun
posted by krisjohn at 6:12 PM on September 23, 2001

Still more URL-manipulating fun
posted by zztzed at 7:14 PM on September 23, 2001

Double-posting spree on metafilter ... "Golden Light" ... why, that sounds propitious, I'll start right away!
posted by EngineBeak at 7:47 PM on September 23, 2001

Doesn't "justice" imply some kind of proportional punishment, an action taken specifically to balance the consequences of a misdeed? Isn't "infinite justice" a horrible oxymoron? Oh -- The Art of Naming Operations. Maybe "infinite" is appropriate because the "war" as yet has no boundaries, no ultimate objectives. If civil liberties are going to suspended so long as there are Enemies of Democracy at large, well then, the enemies of democracy are already in control.
posted by scissorfish at 6:13 PM on September 25, 2001