Operation "Pooh" a different view.

[donnieitaly]

Well I'm three minutes into this operation and no-one's shot at me yet :-) It can't last.

My main reason however for posting this is the following. (It should not be taken as criticism of this wonderful game btw, simply as an interesting fact.)

I am not sure how many Americans realise that the word "Pooh" as used these days, and certainly not when the book was written, in the UK means, how can I put it? Hmm,

"Excrement".

Usually human. Why people can't say excrement is beyond me, as it's certainly more acceptable that **** or **** (fill in as appropriate) but it isn't going to be very nice for a widow to say that her husband died in Syria in "Operation Pooh".

Unfortunate, but there it is :-(

[Holman]

You mean A.A. Milne was trying to pull a fast one on us??

Actually "Poo" (spelled thusly) has a long tradition in America as a euphemism for **** (spelled thusly). Variations include "poo-poo" (and its urinary parallel, "pee-pee"), "poop," and the much-beloved "poopy."

In short, I think BTS already knew this.

[Atago]

After a while longer in the Pooh mission you will start to say stronger things than poo or excement or feces. I dragged out some swear words I haven't used since my navy days playing that mission. $#!+, there went another of my tanks, etc.

[ChrisND]

Pooh is also this character:

http://disney.go.com/pooh/index.html

I'll leave to you to decide which one they were referring to.

[SgtMuhammed]

Well, you can look at it this way. If you are one of those who don't like less than macho names for objectives, you can interpret it to mean that you are going to be in deep ****e. Or you can think of the Taoist philosopher that it is named after.