# Og? Who She be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931 "2002-04-10T23:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/1 "2002-04-10T23:38:02Z")
Oh hell, I give up. What’s the derivation of Og. It seems to have become the universal answer for everything here, and I’m tired of being left out. ::huffs off in a great big pout:: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/2 "2002-04-10T23:44:06Z")
I think it came from an angry little troll who showed up in the Pit a few weeks ago. Virtually everytime he tried to type ‘of’ he wrote ‘og,’ even after he was corrected several times. I’m having trouble finding a link, though. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/3 "2002-04-10T23:47:39Z")
Dunno - I’ve skipped those threads too - but there’s an Og in the Bible. Deuteronomy 3: > [@](#): > > 1: "Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Ed’re-i. > > 2: But the LORD said to me, `Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’ > > 3: So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him. > > 4: And we took all his cities at that time – there was not a city which we did not take from them – sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. And Psalm 136: > [@](#): > > 17: to him who smote great kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever; > 18: and slew famous kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever; > 19: Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever; > 20: and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures for ever; But I doubt that that’s the Og they’re talking about. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/4 "2002-04-10T23:48:02Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103615) it is. I think this is where it is from, not completely sure though. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/5 "2002-04-11T00:17:35Z")
OG!! OG!! OG!! **Dr. Lao** has correctly noted the recent history of Og. ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/6 "2002-04-11T00:28:55Z")
Thanks Dr. Lao: Looks like racinchikki had the first hand in this, with her Og mad! Og smash! Og smite! Oh gee, funny ---
**Author:** ![Neptune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/7 "2002-04-11T00:30:57Z")
I thought Og was supposed to be the name of a generic caveperson. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/8 "2002-04-11T00:35:12Z")
The real $64,000 question, though, is when will **Og** references become so hackneyed and widely ridiculed as to merit a Pit thread calling for them to be outlawed? Can we start a pool on this? ---
**Author:** ![ageless6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@ageless6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ageless6)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/9 "2002-04-11T00:56:40Z")
peepthis: Og not allow thread about pool until ageless6 tired of it! ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/10 "2002-04-11T01:08:47Z")
I think it has enough creative potential to last a while, and so far people aren’t overdoing it. Myself, I’ve always been partial to the ‘OG sort trash! **ageless6** go in bin!’ variant. On the other hand, the fact that it’s not being overdone might have been due to the fact that most people didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/11 "2002-04-11T05:25:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > \*\*The real $64,000 question, though, is when will **Og** references become so hackneyed and widely ridiculed as to merit a Pit thread calling for them to be outlawed? Can we start a pool on this? \*\* Nonononono. Can’t start a pit thread about it until after **my** turn. I only got to use ‘Hi Opal’ a couple of times, and never even once used ‘all your base…’ ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/12 "2002-04-12T06:12:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robb \* > \*\*the recent history of Og. \*\* Good point. I believe Og was also the name for a generic caveman, as **Neptune** points out, particularly in the writings of [The Internet Oracle](http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi). Og’s “wife” is not Lucy, as you may suspect, but Ogma. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/og-who-she-be/102931/13 "2002-04-12T07:32:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StephenG \* > \*\* > Og’s “wife” is not Lucy, as you may suspect, but Ogma. \*\* Sooo… their dog is called Dogma? 😕 _scratches head_ 😉 😃