# In which I pit God **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695 "2003-11-28T07:42:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/81 "2003-12-01T23:20:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > > What. The. Fucking. Fuck is that all about?!?!? 😕 It’s perfectly clear to me. Essentially, some fellow named Hugh thinks his eight-armed chandelier is secretly boring a hole in the wall so that it can escape. Upon reading his work, some people thought Hugh was out of his tree. In response to this criticism, God came down to smite the detractors. God apparently uses the word “spogga” instead of “blah blah blah.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/82 "2003-12-02T00:31:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. B \* > \*\*It’s perfectly clear to me. > > Essentially, some fellow named Hugh thinks his eight-armed chandelier is secretly boring a hole in the wall so that it can escape. > > Upon reading his work, some people thought Hugh was out of his tree. In response to this criticism, God came down to smite the detractors. > > God apparently uses the word “spogga” instead of “blah blah blah.” \*\* Wow! Your interpretation is _exactly_ but not quite the complete opposite of mine… This “GOD” fellow, in a fit of pique, and body-hugging, diamante body-stocking, creates the avatar “spogga” (which is onomatopoeic for “the sound of a hummingbird slowed down a thousand times”) some three and a half months in advance of this thread just so he can look clever. That, or drugs. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/83 "2003-12-02T08:07:02Z")
Our Sock, who art in spangles, Sparkly be thy Heel, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On Dope As it is in Backchat. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/84 "2003-12-02T09:19:56Z")
\*::Trying very hard to keep a straight face:: \* ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/85 "2003-12-02T11:58:23Z")
Gasp…Wow, how did I get here. I hope God doesn’t catch me in this neighborhood.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/86 "2003-12-02T22:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by spogga \* > \*\*\*\* Teelo, it’s spogga not spooga, makes me sound like a walrus farting_\* > > Anyway apart from that what makes you think I don’t [or something] > > - shuffles off clutching carpet slippers and cackling wildly \* \*\* **Spogga** doesn’t sound much better!! _::Runs off crying::_ ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/87 "2003-12-03T12:22:25Z")
\*\* Teelo \*\* Spogga has a certain charismatic sound to it, a sort of \* Dichtung und Wahrheit \* if you will. Grown men throughout history have cast themselves into open graves because their parents did not have the foresight to bestow upon them the initials I have which gives rise to the name of SPOGGA. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/88 "2003-12-03T12:42:07Z")
That’s where my username comes from too! This is why I hate filling out forms. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695/89 "2003-12-03T18:56:44Z")
\ I have no excuse. Mine was a drunken typo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-pit-god/215695.md?page=4)