# All right, I give up -- who is this OG anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972 "2002-04-11T04:24:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shame\_s\_Joys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Shame\_s\_Joys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shame_s_Joys)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/1 "2002-04-11T04:24:04Z")
“OG SMASH!” OG this! OG that! What’s gotten into you Dopers all of a sudden? There must be some inside joke here I missed out on at the beginning. I started seeing “OG SMASH!” all over the place soon after the SDMB came back to life last month. Any connection to “Smashie” from the temp board? Or what? And how long before we get an OG smiley? :wally ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/2 "2002-04-11T04:35:32Z")
It’s a typo from one of the Famous Kooks to have posted here (I forget who, or in which thread, although I have read it recently). He spelled ‘of’ as ‘og’ a few too many times, even though he could spell ‘of’ correctly on occasion. A Doper apparently thought Og was a good caveman name, and so the brute was born. OG SMASH! (I don’t see any direct connection to the inestimable Smashie, except a common fondness for smashing.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/3 "2002-04-11T04:35:48Z")
Og was a giant king in ancient Canaan. The king of someplace called Bashan. He was defeated by the Israelites. See Deuteronomy 3:3 — So the LORD our God delivered into our hands **Og** also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/4 "2002-04-11T04:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*Og was a giant king in ancient Canaan. The king of someplace called Bashan. He was defeated by the Israelites. See Deuteronomy 3:3 — > > So the LORD our God delivered into our hands **Og** also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. \*\* Uh, that’s odd. I have seen my origin promoted in various other places, as well as having seen the thread (an Og joke, certainly the first, was made there, as a matter of fact). I doubt musty and rather obscure Biblical monarchs figure into this at all. (If you have just whooshed me, good work. Making Og the king of _Bashan_ was nicely done. :)) ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/5 "2002-04-11T07:24:06Z")
[The origin of the SDMB Og fascination](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103615) Oh yeah, OG SMITE! ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/6 "2002-04-11T08:25:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. \*\* Well, at least we know where OG’s fondness for smashing and smiting comes from… Gp ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/7 "2002-04-11T13:36:46Z")
so It was racinchikki who is the Orginiator! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/8 "2002-04-11T14:09:45Z")
She is Og’s prophet! ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/9 "2002-04-11T14:29:46Z")
I blame **tiggeril**. I think she instigated this in chat and provoked **racinchikki**. I may be wrong, though; Og has smashed me many a time in the head. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/10 "2002-04-11T17:07:57Z")
Succumbing to temptation… Og smash **lno** in the head! _hands **lno** some aspirin and bandages, sorry to hear about the Og head-smashing thing!_ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/11 "2002-04-11T17:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*I blame **tiggeril**. I think she instigated this in chat and provoked **racinchikki**. > > I may be wrong, though; Og has smashed me many a time in the head. \*\* You’re right; I can’t take credit. While the thought had crossed my mind prior to logging in to chat, I would never have posted it without **tiggeril** ’s humor in IRC. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-i-give-up-who-is-this-og-anyway/102972/12 "2002-04-11T20:11:32Z")
George Orwell, in _Coming Up for Air_, wrote how as a little kid in church he heard them singing a hymn with the line “…And Og the king of Bashan.” But for him it became a mondegreen: “…And **Dog** the king of Bashan.” Here it is — your guide to all things **Og** : [http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/ORACLE/og.html](http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/ORACLE/og.html) (Did you know John Dryden wrote poems about him?) [http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/ORACLE/oghist.html](http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/ORACLE/oghist.html)