# What is Og **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843 "2004-11-09T15:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/21 "2004-11-10T10:21:33Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > A small mammoth! Finally a new oxymoron! No! Pygmy Mammoths [exist](http://www.nps.gov/chis/pygmy.htm), or existed, they’re extinct now ☹ I use gawd rather than Og. If gawd was in charge I bet we’d still have pygmy mammoths. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/22 "2004-11-10T10:33:28Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > There was another thread called “Tenets of Og.” Two of those three words are too short to search for, and I don’t have much luck with the search function. If I go through further attempts, I’ll probably break my mouse again. When I combine my own incompetence with uncooperative technology, I often end up getting very angry. I try to avoid that. :smack: I’m glad I made such a deep impression on you, young padawan. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/23 "2004-11-10T15:59:13Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > What is Og > > Baby don’t hurt me. _Pbbbfffffhhffft!_ _cleans up coffee_ ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/24 "2004-11-10T17:57:16Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Am I on your ignore list? I don’t have an ignore list. Your post came in while I was trying to search, and then cursing my dimwad status in my post. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/25 "2004-11-10T19:21:29Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > I’m glad I made such a deep impression on you, young padawan. 😉 Oh, great! I submit a post about my incompetence and ignorance, and **duffer** makes a joke about it… **which I don’t get.** I think I’ll stay home today. If I get any dumber, I’ll forget my fing name. :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/26 "2004-11-10T19:23:40Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Oh, great! I submit a post about my incompetence and ignorance, and **duffer** makes a joke about it… **which I don’t get.** I think I’ll stay home today. If I get any dumber, I’ll forget my fing name. :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: What’s a _fing_ name? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/27 "2004-11-10T19:27:06Z")
Ha! I had forgotten that **racinchikki** “invented” Og… I knew that I liked that girl! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/28 "2004-11-10T19:28:01Z")
A fing name is one you have caught or snared. [Cite.](http://www.dict.cc/?s=fing) \*\*AskNott \*\* must be a trapper! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/29 "2004-11-10T21:27:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A fing name is one you have caught or snared. [Cite.](http://www.dict.cc/?s=fing) > > \*\*AskNott \*\* must be a trapper! 😃 Um, not exactly. I don’t even speak German. It’s extremely rare for me to use a new slang word before it’s obsolete; this may be a first. Here’s the progression. Fucking euphemized to Effing, sometimes spelled f’ing. Remove the apostrophe, and you get “fing,” which now rhymes with “ring.” And, no, Effingham, Illinois is not a euphemism for… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843/30 "2004-11-11T01:59:39Z")
There’s an episode of Futurama where Fry starts working in the cryogenic lab, and so does bender. Bender takes to scaring people as the defrost, and one of the masks that he wears is an ape mask, and he calls himself, Og of the ape people, or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-og/273843.md?page=1)