# What the hell is your Og? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507 "2004-02-10T20:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/1 "2004-02-10T20:39:12Z")
I don’t have a God (or a god, for that matter), but I do swear by other people’s. I tried “Oh my Bob” for awhile, but Bob said people were starting to ask if we were gay. I don’t know why. I don’t even _know_ Bob. Now, I see a lot of you swearing by this Og fellow, and I wanted to know who he is and whether I can borrow him. Just for a sentence here and there, you understand; I’ll give him back. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/2 "2004-02-10T21:28:48Z")
My Og is a wrathful and vengeful Og, ready to smite those who would cross him! I forget who, exactly, originated Og here, but IIRC it started with the words “Og Smash!” I think you should feel free to use here or anywhere else you need a fake deity. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/3 "2004-02-10T21:43:20Z")
Og was born in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=103615) in which a troll repeatedly typed “son og God” instead of “son of God.” It has been brought up since that the “Og smash” joke is older than the SDMB, but Og as some kind of deity may have originated here. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/4 "2004-02-10T22:10:32Z")
An appropriately fuzzy, ghostly photograph of “Og” can be found [here.](http://www.magazines.com/magcom/covers/0/06/044/0060444.jpg) Doesn’t look particularly vengeful to me, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/5 "2004-02-11T05:31:44Z")
> [@TheInterruptingCow](#): > > An appropriately fuzzy, ghostly photograph of “Og” can be found [here.](http://www.magazines.com/magcom/covers/0/06/044/0060444.jpg) > > Doesn’t look particularly vengeful to me, though. Which one’s Og? The pansies, or the whopping great blue mitts? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/7 "2004-02-11T05:51:42Z")
My Og is Alf. The two words sound good together. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/8 "2004-02-11T05:51:45Z")
What’s a Kibo? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/9 "2004-02-11T05:55:50Z")
You can have my Og, my Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and my Church of the Visible Pink Foreskin, when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. That goes **double** for the foreskin. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2004, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/10 "2004-02-11T08:29:21Z")
\*\*\*Oh Gee, nailed to a tree Smashed my face and made me free I drink Ogwine and eat Ogbread Flesh made from Ogham that I’ve read My Ogus is an earnest shade and while on Earth he had a trade Of the Joiner’s Art he was a master He built the Cabinet of Ogliastra!\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/11 "2004-02-11T12:48:13Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > You can have my Og, my Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and my Church of the Visible Pink Foreskin, when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. I’m a member of The Church of Blissful Sedation… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/12 "2004-02-11T12:53:27Z")
> [@dutchboy208](#): > > I don’t have a God (or a god, for that matter), but I do swear by other people’s. > > I tried “Oh my Bob” for awhile, but Bob said people were starting to ask if we were gay. I don’t know why. I don’t even _know_ Bob. > > Now, I see a lot of you swearing by this Og fellow, and I wanted to know who he is and whether I can borrow him. Just for a sentence here and there, you understand; I’ll give him back. I am Bob, and I’m often accused of having an Og complex… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/13 "2004-02-11T14:00:20Z")
I am a member of the First house of Polyester Worship and Horizontal Throbbing Teenage Desire, and our First Lady of the White Go-Go Boot, Lord of the 40 watt, undulating, apocolyptic lava lamp, and the “no pizza-take-out after 12:00” Shrine of the “Wrastling Jesus” Achy-Breaky Love Tabernacle. And I do so enjoy my weekly hour of faith and mutation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/14 "2004-02-11T14:27:34Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > my Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and my Church of the Visible Pink Foreskin And how is Rev. JDT doing, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/15 "2004-02-11T15:23:16Z")
Og the Great and Terrible! Intimidating when you first meet him, what with his ethereal head bobbing over a throne and all. But really, he’s kind of a sweet, bumbling old man. Once, he gave a diploma to a scarecrow just for figuring out the Pythagoran Theorum. I’m a friend of Dorothy’s. So one day I expect I’ll go to the land of Og. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/16 "2004-02-11T17:58:10Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > What’s a Kibo? :blows dust off dim memory: It’s a [James Parry](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6270/kibo.html). Thought by some to be the first netizen to grep a usenet newsfeed for mentions of his handle, IIRC. Also the founder of alt.religion.kibology which seems to share some basic fundamentals with the Church of the SubGenius and Discordianism. I’ll be durned. He’s still around and [twice](http://www.kibo.com/main.shtml) as colourful. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/17 "2004-02-11T18:31:15Z")
I prostrate myself before **Gytha** , Ogg of Lancre, patron of distillers, brewers and protector of ladies of free virtue. She always offers me a pill for my prostrate. ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/18 "2004-02-11T19:17:55Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > I prostrate myself before **Gytha** , Ogg of Lancre, patron of distillers, brewers and protector of ladies of free virtue. > > She always offers me a pill for my prostrate. Wotcha, **photpat**. The virtue is so free, they give it away. 😃 BTW, shouldn’t we have written this in Oggam, as a sign of respect to our wonderous Gytha? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-your-og/228507/19 "2004-02-11T21:38:54Z")
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever been less educated by any thread I started 😉 I’d forgotten about Og Smash. On the other hand, I _did_ get to vomit copiously thinking about prying **iampunha’s** Visible Pink Foreskin from his cold dead fingers.