# My patient, Og **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433 "2005-11-23T16:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/41 "2005-11-24T03:32:15Z")
After my active duty military service I spent a year in the reserves. In my unit I was a records clerk. Another woman in the company had a strange name. Her parents had desperately wanted a boy it seems, and to name it after the father, Floyd Earl. They got a girl instead, so they hung the moniker Floydene Earlene on the child. That’s what I call child abuse. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/42 "2005-11-24T04:59:01Z")
This guy isn’t always Og…he’s sometimes THE [OG](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=o+g) !!! ---
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/43 "2005-11-24T05:08:02Z")
**Qadgop** , I wonder if you could make a signature that included a link to a post or something that explained the HIPPA problem. Like **Tuckerfan** ’s links about Tuckers. Then you could choose to use that signature when posting work related anecdotes. I know the onus shouldn’t be on you to always educate people when you just want to share funny stories. Just a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/44 "2005-11-24T08:21:41Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I knew someone named Candy Love. It was her _married_ name. Just goes to show ya, if you marry a guy who’ll give you an honest-to-Og stripper name, it must be Love. Not to hijack too much, but man, I’d just keep my maiden name in that case. My mom has a friend named Gay, who married a man with the last name Ray. According to my mother, she struggled for months after the engagement, not wanting to tell her husband that she wanted to keep her own name, in case he thought she wasn’t really committed or something. When she finally brought it up to him, he pointed out that no one who really loved another person would want them to change their name to “Gay Ray”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/45 "2005-11-24T13:05:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > After my active duty military service I spent a year in the reserves. In my unit I was a records clerk. Another woman in the company had a strange name. Her parents had desperately wanted a boy it seems, and to name it after the father, Floyd Earl. They got a girl instead, so they hung the moniker Floydene Earlene on the child. That’s what I call child abuse. 😃 Wow - this whole story is so wrong, in so many ways. I guess if your name is Floyd Earl, you don’t see any problem with Floydene Earlene. Or naming your boychild after you. Floyd Earl Junior. Floyd Earl II. The Floyd Earl Dynasty. I guess there wouldn’t be any confusion in the house, since the kid would go by Bubba anyway. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/46 "2005-11-24T13:17:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > After my active duty military service I spent a year in the reserves. In my unit I was a records clerk. Another woman in the company had a strange name. Her parents had desperately wanted a boy it seems, and to name it after the father, Floyd Earl. They got a girl instead, so they hung the moniker Floydene Earlene on the child. That’s what I call child abuse. 😃 AN ex co-worker from years back was a woman named Kirk with two sisters: one named Bryan and the other named an equally masculine name I now forget. Yes, all 3 turned out rather strange. The parents seemed normal enough and certainly had normal names. No clue why they did what they did. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/47 "2005-11-24T16:47:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > After my active duty military service I spent a year in the reserves. In my unit I was a records clerk. Another woman in the company had a strange name. Her parents had desperately wanted a boy it seems, and to name it after the father, Floyd Earl. They got a girl instead, so they hung the moniker Floydene Earlene on the child. That’s what I call child abuse. 😃 Dave’s bio-grandmother was named for her father. Her name is Elmer. She goes by her middle name, Katherine. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/48 "2005-11-24T17:38:33Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Did ya have to bandage his knuckles? Huh? Did ya? DID ya? Huh? How would he walk? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/49 "2005-11-24T18:45:17Z")
I couldn’t get **ZipperJJ** ’s link to load, but seeing that it’s for Urban Dictionary, it is probably explaining that “OG” stands for “original gangster,” or one of the early or “old school” guys. Is he older? If he’s young and trying to use the “OG” moniker, then he’s probably just a foolish young buck trying to grab the shirttails of the older, more established guys with street cred. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/50 "2005-11-24T18:51:44Z")
We had a fellow in the firehouse who was nicknamed Og-he had played offensive guard in HS feetsball and his jersey had OG on the sleeves. He was a helluva truckie, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/51 "2005-11-24T20:43:22Z")
I’ve never had a patient named Og. Nor Ogg, Egg, Egg McMuffin nor Oog. I’ll expect your privacy gestapo at my door shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/52 "2005-11-24T20:54:02Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Is he older? He ain’t no spring chicken. He’s over 50. And Og thanked me. How does that latter bit fit into SDMB theological worldviews? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/53 "2005-11-24T21:03:18Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I’ve never had a patient named Og. Nor Ogg, Egg, Egg McMuffin nor Oog. > > I’ll expect your privacy gestapo at my door shortly. Hah ! Hah ! But did you have one named _Egg Nog_ ? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/54 "2005-11-24T21:31:36Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > He ain’t no spring chicken. He’s over 50. > > And Og thanked me. > > How does that latter bit fit into SDMB theological worldviews? Does he have low self-esteem? If he doesn’t believe in himself would that be blasphemy? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/55 "2005-11-24T22:15:39Z")
Og [revealed](http://www.jodysgarage.com/images/funny/griffith/otis.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/56 "2005-11-24T22:16:53Z")
Dang, Og doesn’t allow hot linking… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/57 "2005-11-24T22:16:56Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > Og [revealed](http://www.jodysgarage.com/images/funny/griffith/otis.jpg) Link doesn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/58 "2005-11-24T22:17:59Z")
You’ll have to cut n paste the url… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/59 "2005-11-24T22:23:51Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > You’ll have to cut n paste the url… Doesn’t work that way for me either. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433/60 "2005-11-25T00:32:38Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Doesn’t work that way for me either. [Here ya go.](http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/8161/otis7yr.jpg) It’s actually OC, unless North Carolina allowed gay marriage in the '60s, or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-patient-og/332433.md?page=4)