I took it more as a dysphemism/malphemism. Funny how plain text can be read different ways.

By the way, regarding Empire, I'm sure those of you as old as me may remember all the gossip in the genre magazines after Empire and before Jedi about who the "other" hope that Yoda spoke of was. Well, I still have some of those magazines and it seems quite incredible, in hindsight, that none of them suggested Leia. I mean, when you look at the movie now, it seems plain as day that Vader is Luke's father once they have communicated through the Force, but even more obvious is that Leia is the "other". Luke calls out to her in the Force and she hears it. That shot of Leia hearing him is quite amazing, I think, but I really do wonder why nobody seemed to think she was the one!

Any of you remember this speculation? I think if we'd had the internet back then, we'd have had it all thrashed out well before Jedi was released.