# How did my Girlfriend know the name of Supermans dog? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569 "2005-09-26T22:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/21 "2005-09-27T00:48:26Z")
There’s a Krypto the Super-Dog cartoon on these days on Cartoon Network, aimed at very young children (younger than the Teen Titans target audience). That’s got to be how she knows. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/22 "2005-09-27T00:55:50Z")
Because you apparently have excellent taste in women. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/23 "2005-09-27T01:07:21Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > Cat Streaky - not from Krypton. Ordinary earth cat who found Kryptonite X in Supergirl’s ball of yarn. No way. You’re yanking my chain. No way. _—googles—_ [Huh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaky_the_Supercat). “I… like it! It makes me feel… strong… and brave… and tingly…!” _—weeps—_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/24 "2005-09-27T01:10:45Z")
Ask your GF to tell you what the letters in SHAZAM! stand for. Also, ask her to recite the Green Lantern Oath. If she can do one of these, she read her father’s/brother’s/prior boyfriend’s comic books. If she can do both, she is a True Geek Girl—_ **do her honor!** _ True, she may demand that you then woo her in Klingon fashion, but you must make the sacrifice. Report your results here. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/25 "2005-09-27T01:32:59Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > There’s a Krypto the Super-Dog cartoon on these days on Cartoon Network. I’d heard that [somewhere](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6623809&postcount=4). ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/26 "2005-09-27T01:34:25Z")
Another bit of Krypto trivia… How could Superboy’s pet dog still be vital and active during Superman’s time? He drank from the fountain of youth. Well seeing as how he’s a dog, maybe the toilet of youth? ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/27 "2005-09-27T02:35:52Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > But only the most pathetic geeks remember the > > **Space Canine Patrol Agency!** Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow-wow-won! We’ll crush evil Now-now-now! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/28 "2005-09-27T03:43:38Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > How could Superboy’s pet dog still be vital and active during Superman’s time? To be fair, Krypto isn’t really a dog, he’s an alien creature that astonishingly _resembles_ a dog. That he might live for decades shouldn’t really require an explanation, though somebody wrote one, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/29 "2005-09-27T04:01:46Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > To be fair, Krypto isn’t really a dog, he’s an alien creature that astonishingly _resembles_ a dog. That he might live for decades shouldn’t really require an explanation, though somebody wrote one, anyway. I prefer the toilet of youth explanation myself. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/30 "2005-09-27T04:14:03Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Ask your GF to tell you what the letters in SHAZAM! stand for. > > Also, ask her to recite the Green Lantern Oath. Shit, I can’t do either of those. Uh, the H is for Hermes, and the Z, um, Zeus I guess. Alan Scott’s oath is “I will shine my light over dark evil, for the dark things can’t stand the light. The light of the GREEN LANTERN!” I always liked it better than the sissy rhyming one Hal had, which I can’t ever remember more than a third of. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/31 "2005-09-27T04:22:23Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > But only the most pathetic geeks remember the > > **Space Canine Patrol Agency!** Not so much these days, now that a version of them are in the many times mentioned Krypto cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/32 "2005-09-27T04:38:15Z")
Hey, don’t [forget Super Gorilla!](http://www.superdickery.com/monkey/16.html)😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/33 "2005-09-27T04:41:39Z")
Heck, from memory: Solomon Hercules Atlas Zeus Achilles Mercury Mary Marvel’s list escapes me, though I know it includes Aurora and Zephyr. “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/34 "2005-09-27T04:44:30Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Heck, from memory: > > Solomon > Hercules > Atlas > Zeus > Achilles > Mercury > Mary Marvel’s list escapes me, though I know it includes Aurora and Zephyr. Can you do Black Adam’s set? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/35 "2005-09-27T05:07:33Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Alan Scott’s oath is “I will shine my light over dark evil, for the dark things can’t stand the light. The light of the GREEN LANTERN!” I always liked it better than the sissy rhyming one Hal had, which I can’t ever remember more than a third of. > > –Cliffy : Slaps **Cliffy** with a white Green Lanterning glove. : Them’s fightin’ words. **Tengu** , somebody did Adam’s set for me a few months back, but damned if I can remember it. I think the first letter was Set. In case anyone is racking their brians over PG’s cat’s name that was a joke. As far as I know that cat doesn’t have a name. If we’re doing trivia now here’s a relatively simple one: Name Tomar Re’s Green Lantern sector and the most famous planet in it. Well, at one point the planet was in it… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/36 "2005-09-27T05:11:30Z")
Couldn’t tell you which sector, but the planet would be Krypton. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/37 "2005-09-27T05:21:29Z")
Try these: BE1: How did Proty 1 die? BE2: What secret identity did Mon-El briefly adopt in Smallville? BE3: Who developed a formula that would let Mon-El temporarily leave the Phantom Zone? BE4: Name Hal Jordan’s assigned space sector. BE5: Name the original seven members of the All-Star Squadron. BE6: Name the original Seven Soldiers of Victory. BE7: Name the shortest original member of the Justice Society of America. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/38 "2005-09-27T05:57:32Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > BE1: How did Proty 1 die? > BE2: What secret identity did Mon-El briefly adopt in Smallville? > BE3: Who developed a formula that would let Mon-El temporarily leave the Phantom Zone? > BE6: Name the original Seven Soldiers of Victory. > BE7: Name the shortest original member of the Justice Society of America. 1 - Sacrificed himself to ressurect Lightning Lad, so Saturn Girl wouldn’t. 2 - Bob Cobb, brush salesman. 3 - Saturn Girl. Brainiac 5 finally perfected it sometime later. 6 - Green Arrow, Speedy, Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy, Shining Knight, Vigilante, Crimson Avenger 7 - Shortest as in height? Al Pratt AKA the Atom. Shortest in tenure? I couldn’t even wager a guess. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/39 "2005-09-27T11:23:13Z")
I don’t know about the girlfriend knowing, but I’ve never read a comic book in my life and I would have said Krypto. I don’t even remember where I heard that name, but I believe it was a television cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-my-girlfriend-know-the-name-of-supermans-dog/323569/40 "2005-09-27T12:42:23Z")
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