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"The prize potato, grown by Peter Glazebrook, tips the scales at a whopping 8lbs 4oz (3.76kg), smashing the previous world record by 9oz"

MOAP?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... otato.html

My point in saying "so what" was not to say it was not sensationalism. Just pointing out that we (our military), over history, has given sensational nicknames to aircraft and other weapons, given our units sensational nicknames (complete with logos depicting various predators and raptors, painted sensational slogans on the sides of aircraft, painted sensational slogans on tank and artillery gun tubes, and bombs, etc. Who, exactly, coined the phrase will probably never be known. But I doubt it was the gov't or the press, and most likely by those that worked on the bomb itself. So, the "so what" was nothing more than pointing that out.

The term "Mother of all Bombs" (MOAB) comes from the official name GBU-43/B "Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB)." So maybe the term for such previous devices like the "BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" used in Viet Nam would be a more acceptable term to some. Terms such as these have been around forever. The P-51 Mustang was the "Cadillac of the Skies," the A-10 Thunderbolt is known as the "Warthog," the B-52 is "BUFF," the AH-1 is known as the "Snake." So what.