# "Dawg"? (very mild, you sadists) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370 "2004-08-04T22:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/41 "2004-08-05T21:27:30Z")
Leider! Ich bin anagrammed gewesen! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/42 "2004-08-05T21:30:11Z")
I like dawg because you can draw out the vowel. Like: “What’s up dawwwwg?” Whereas stretching dog out makes it look like it has a double-o sound, which is generally a u. “What’s up dooooooog?” just doesn’t cut it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/43 "2004-08-05T21:33:49Z")
_There was me, that is Alex, and my three dooogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim…_ You’re right. It just doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/44 "2004-08-05T21:36:55Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > If you knew how to read in between the lines, you’d see that this thread _is_ about a racial conspiracy. I suspect the “dawg” thing stems from the tendecy of posters to emphasize that blacks are different. Since “dog” is “black” slang, authors are driven to make it look more ridiculous (as if they never employ slang themselves) by misspelling it for no reason at all. Same goes for “enuff”. Are you for fucking real? Is there no end to your idiocy?? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/45 "2004-08-05T23:50:59Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Poor **pizzabrat**. The world outside Mrs. Worthington’s Finishing School for Uptight Young People is a confusing place, isn’t it? I can’t imagine you walking the streets with the commoners if these sorts of things upset you so. > > **pizzabrat** : “Well, I never! I do believe that young man’s trousers are oversized, as they are hanging several inches below his waistline! I wonder if I should alert him so that he can correct the situation?” > > random guy to friends: “Shee-yit, dawg, don’t be tellin’ me you ain’t comin’ over tonight! We gonna mack on some hotties, a’ight?” > > **pizzabrat** : _::monocle falls into water glass::_ [Funny you should mention that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251877) ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370/46 "2004-08-06T03:07:06Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Funny you should mention that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=251877) _:: **Giraffe** ’s monocle falls into his water glass::_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dawg-very-mild-you-sadists/258370.md?page=2)