# I owe those of you who use "Og" an apology **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467 "2016-09-20T22:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/21 "2016-09-21T05:06:39Z")
Hmm. Best not make Cecil angry. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/22 "2016-09-21T05:12:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > While I’m aware of how the Of thing got started… Of dammit, now that’s irritating! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/23 "2016-09-21T06:08:59Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Og smash stereotypical caveman! Og smash insulting **Johnny LA**! Og Trans Fats! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/24 "2016-09-21T06:33:58Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > G-d is certainly dancing around it. And that irritates me too. Either say god or don’t. G-d is used by those who consider the word holy and don’t want to use it on say paper which will eventually get thrown in the trash. So it isn’t really dancing around anything. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/25 "2016-09-21T07:30:35Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Eh. It’s a Board thing. I took it as being inclusive, rather than exclusive. All forms (or not) of deity are welcome. > > Now would be when I admit I also don’t read manuals. I always loved how it both worked for people who don’t believe in God and don’t want to bring him up, and for people who have a problem using “God’s name in vein.” I mean, the latter reminds me of things my sister used to say, like “O my Buddha” instead of “O my God.” (It comes from a weird joke about how no one calls for Buddha when the think they’re about to die. Weird because they apparently don’t know that Buddhists can believe in God(s).) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/26 "2016-09-21T07:33:47Z")
No love for Ogette? ☹ … OGETTE SMASH! :mad: :mad: :mad: ETA: would “using God’s name in vein” involve tattooing your insides? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/27 "2016-09-21T07:40:21Z")
Og not gendered! \*\*Nava \*\*dare suggest Og not whatever Og want to be? \*\*Nava \*\*smash! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/28 "2016-09-21T07:41:44Z")
Oooooh, what do I get to smash? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/29 "2016-09-21T07:43:59Z")
Whatever you standing on when Og smash Nava! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/30 "2016-09-21T07:46:39Z")
Kindly tell Og to wait until I’m standing in front of Mylan’s head offices, then… gimme a few hours, and if Og could aim a little badly\* the first time? - is too a word. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/31 "2016-09-21T08:19:51Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I always loved how it both worked for people who don’t believe in God and don’t want to bring him up, and for people who have a problem using “God’s name in vein.” I mean, the latter reminds me of things my sister used to say, like “O my Buddha” instead of “O my God.” (It comes from a weird joke about how no one calls for Buddha when the think they’re about to die. Weird because they apparently don’t know that Buddhists can believe in God(s).) Shoot up with God. Shoot up with Og. Your choice. Just don’t share the needle. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/32 "2016-09-21T10:44:44Z")
By the way, it didn’t originate here. It’s a thing that predates the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/33 "2016-09-21T10:44:47Z")
You might enjoy [OCC the Skeptical Caveman](http://www.theskepticsguide.org/occ). From our friends at The Skeptic’s Guide To The Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/34 "2016-09-21T13:21:20Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > By the way, it didn’t originate here. It’s a thing that predates the SDMB. Really? I don’t think so. Read the FAQ. It all started with an SDMB typo ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/35 "2016-09-21T13:44:24Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Has anyone ever seen Cecil and Og in the same room? Hmmmmmm? Of course not, but I do personally know that Cecil doesn’t shy from saying the word, “God”, whether as an exclamation when we’ve been chased by authorities, or as a phrase of pleasure in the throws of swinging party from back in the day…but those were days a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/36 "2016-09-21T13:50:50Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Really? I don’t think so. Read the FAQ. It all started with an SDMB typo No. There was something very similar already floating around the the web. It may have started here with that typo but it didn’t start here overall. Way back when, I pointed it out to the person who “originated” it and she threw a righteous fit. Now that I think about it, she may have came up with it independently but in any event, Og Smash, predates the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/37 "2016-09-21T13:53:37Z")
Well I think I’d need a cite. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/38 "2016-09-21T13:57:37Z")
> **[What's the biggest trend that has been started on the SDMB?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=151167)** > > I’m talking about saying/words/phrases that started here, not that we just use here, so things like “fnord!” are out. Here are the ones that I’ve thought of: #1 - “Hi, Opal!” Hard to top this one, it’s everywhere. I’ve seen people with 10 posts use... ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/39 "2016-09-21T14:30:22Z")
Whoops. NM. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467/40 "2016-09-21T14:40:49Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Shoot up with God. Shoot up with Og. Your choice. Just don’t share the needle. Don’t shoot up with Jesus, though. [He’ll bogart your stash.](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/3c/27/51/3c2751b433f238f410311030362af34d.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467.md?page=3)