Og? Who She be?

[ageless6]

Oh hell, I give up. What's the derivation of Og. It seems to have become the universal answer for everything here, and I'm tired of being left out.

::huffs off in a great big pout::

[Dr. Lao]

I think it came from an angry little troll who showed up in the Pit a few weeks ago. Virtually everytime he tried to type 'of' he wrote 'og,' even after he was corrected several times. I'm having trouble finding a link, though.

[RTFirefly]

Dunno - I've skipped those threads too - but there's an Og in the Bible. Deuteronomy 3:

1: "Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Ed're-i.

2: But the LORD said to me, `Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

3: So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him.

4: And we took all his cities at that time -- there was not a city which we did not take from them -- sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. And Psalm 136: 17: to him who smote great kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
18: and slew famous kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
19: Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
20: and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures for ever; But I doubt that that's the Og they're talking about. :)

[Dr. Lao]

Here (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103615) it is. I think this is where it is from, not completely sure though.

[Robb]

OG!! OG!! OG!!

Dr. Lao has correctly noted the recent history of Og.

[ageless6]

Thanks Dr. Lao:

Looks like racinchikki had the first hand in this, with her

Og mad! Og smash! Og smite!

Oh gee, funny

[Neptune]

I thought Og was supposed to be the name of a generic caveperson.

[peepthis]

The real $64,000 question, though, is when will Og references become so hackneyed and widely ridiculed as to merit a Pit thread calling for them to be outlawed? Can we start a pool on this?

[ageless6]

peepthis:

Og not allow thread about pool until ageless6 tired of it!

[White Lightning]

I think it has enough creative potential to last a while, and so far people aren't overdoing it. Myself, I've always been partial to the 'OG sort trash! ageless6 go in bin!' variant.

On the other hand, the fact that it's not being overdone might have been due to the fact that most people didn't get it.

[tisiphone]

Originally posted by peepthis
The real $64,000 question, though, is when will Og references become so hackneyed and widely ridiculed as to merit a Pit thread calling for them to be outlawed? Can we start a pool on this?

Nonononono. Can't start a pit thread about it until after my turn. I only got to use 'Hi Opal' a couple of times, and never even once used 'all your base...'

[StephenG]

Originally posted by Robb
the recent history of Og.
Good point. I believe Og was also the name for a generic caveman, as Neptune points out, particularly in the writings of The Internet Oracle (http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi).

Og's "wife" is not Lucy, as you may suspect, but Ogma.

[Cougarfang]

Originally posted by StephenG

Og's "wife" is not Lucy, as you may suspect, but Ogma.

Sooo... their dog is called Dogma? :confused: *scratches head*

;) :D