Gemm has issues.

[Entsuropi]

SE, i'm talking about this sort of thing:

EntropyTWG: SILENCE I SAY! DO NOT MAKE ME SMITE YOU DOWN, PATHETIC MORTAL

I said that after Gemm kept on trying to send TMBG songs, some of them with the pitch way up so they sounded like the chipmonks do a christmas musical. Those ones made my head hurt actually.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I just had a great idea. Me as Lipton's Brisk Iced Tea spokesman.

"Have you ever noticed that Brisk in a bottle has the same look as beer? The only difference is, it has a more cool and refreshing taste, and no worries about getting drunk or thrown in prison on DUI/DWI charges.  MMMmm, thats brisk baby."

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

once again, Gemm demonstrates WHY I established this thread.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Yippie-ky-yi-yay! Get along little doggies!

[JP Dogberry]

There is no boy.

[stacer]

D-O-G-I-E-S, as in dogies, cows. Not doggies, as in canine animals.

[Lieutenant Kije]

So now that I know they're saying "dogies" and not "doggies," how in the world did they come up with dogie for cow, stacer?

[stacer]

Dogie is slang for heifer, if I remember right. Not really sure where it came from.

Nope, I was wrong--just looked it up, and the American Heritage Dictionary says it's a motherless calf. Here's what it says on etymology:

"In the language of the American West, a motherless calf is known as a dogie. In Western Words Ramon F. Adams gives one possible etymology for dogie, whose origin is unknown. During the 1880s, when a series of harsh winters left large numbers of orphaned calves, the little calves, weaned too early, were unable to digest coarse range grass, and their swollen bellies "very much resembled a batch of sourdough carried in a sack." Such a calf was referred to as dough-guts. The term, altered to dogie according to Adams, "has been used ever since throughout cattleland to refer to a pot-gutted orphan calf." Another possibility is that dogie is an alteration of Spanish dogal, "lariat." Still another is that it is simply a variant pronunciation of doggie."

So Gemm may be justified after all.  

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well buh. I knew I was right. I didn't need some sort of dictionary that doesn't know the meaning of an agora to tell me. I just needed a little folktale.