>Mike,
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>>I wasn't disagreeing with Alex that it's what D-Day stands for. The most common theory, anyway. My only point was it's kind of a meaningless abbreviation. Let's never forget Day-Day!
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>It was code man.. so the enemy wouldn't know what the day was.
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>>As fans of "Animal House" know, it actually stands for Daniel Simpson Day....
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>Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

"It's not over till we say it's over!" LOL

Yes, I get it about the origin of the phrase D-Day. All I meant was it should have been dropped and replaced with a more meaningful name after the event was over. It conveys absolutely no meaning or pizzazz.

Here is a true story about placeholder code names. When Datsun (now Nissan) was ready to launch its first sports car in the U.S. market they initially planned to call it the Pink Fairlady. A Datsun manager in Southern California, Japanese by birth, protested. He said we will never succeed with a sports car by that name in the American market. He talked them into releasing it using the development code name: 240Z.