de DooooG...Finally Explained

[Knothead]

There's a member here who contributes some amazingly funny input to our (community) forum, and I fear this humor is being taken a little too literally.... and being misunderstood (a CRIME!! ) or not understood at all (a TRAGEDY!! )!!

To fans of de DooooG, I apologise for being so enervatingly exact... as humor is a fragile thing, and spotlights (such as this) tend to dry it out. But...I will continue, as is my twisted wont. Hahaha!

de DooooG is a created PERSONA of MegalosSkylaki (the handle itself is Greek for "Big Dog") and from this perspective, he creates this grandiose and rococco personality in his posts (in community) which simultaneously pulls everybody's legs and gives us lotsa belly laughs (well, me, anyway)

In the Tech sections, he's real straight. Well, mostly. But turn de DooooG loose in the Community, and....WHA-? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


Note: No animals were harmed in the making of this thread.

[daveleau]

Wow, you lern something new every day. I didn't know MegalosSkylaki meant Big Dog in Greek. Very cool!

[NeoStarO1]

Me either, tho still trying to figure it out.
Thanks knot!

[Knothead]

Check this thread: Sleep'N'Post It started out as a couple of PM's that Megalos sent me, and I couldn't bear to hog it all to myself.

Freakin' JEEEEN-YUSS!! It isn't literal, it's a parody of software designers and greedheads. Contrast the two, and then satirize them, and that's what Megalos did here....had ME on the FLOOR, dudes and dude-esses!

Plus, you see several folks jumped in and played with it, and had some laughs, too! That's the whole point!

[Brainchild]

Freakin' JEEEEN-YUSS!!

Well now his head will never fit through the door

I had no idea that was big doooog in greek.

[Theophylact]

See, my problem was I kept trying to understand it as Classical, when it's Demotiki!

[MegalosSkylaki]

When I left the Other Site--where my name was MegalosSkylos [BeeG DooG], I felt a name change was in order. So I ordered one. Good thing the Restaurant I was in had them on the Menu.

Faced with the requirement that I start anew with some..err.."new identity", I was faced with a dilemma: Plastic Surgery or Psychosurgery.

After I saw the efects of trepanage on Knothead, I decided to go with the Plastic Surgery.

So I visited the topp Veteninary Plastic Surgeon in NYC.
"So you want to be better lookin'," shes says. "Can't say I blame ya."
"Nope," I replied as I am not vain. "I am the handsomest Pooch East of the Mason-Dixon line.
"Huh?," she replied.
"Let's just say I want to look different so as not to be tracked down".
Then she mentioned the cosmetic removal of my tail and cropping my ears. Things got a liittle difficulty after that and this ain't ketchup I'm writing with...after I.. Well, this is a Family site.

Imagine the stories in all three NYC Newspapers:FAMED PLASTIC SURGEON UNDERGOES PLASTIC SURGERY Gee, I didn't know I could do that. Anyhows, I opted for a name change after that.

Well one of the oddities of Greek is that the "little" form (or the
affectionate form) of a name is longer than the Regular form.

So I totally changed my name "Beeg DooG" to "Big Little-DooG" or "BeeG Sweet Pooch"--from MegalosSkylos to MegalosSkylaki. There, that should throw any Terminators off-the Trail

Your Friend,
MegalosSkylaki
"Beeg Sweet Pooch"

[MegalosSkylaki]

" See, my problem was I kept trying to understand it it as Classical, when its demotiki "--Theophylact

WhooA ! No wonder you had a problem--the opposite of Classical is not demotic

Uggghh! Gotta teach some history.

After four centuries of slavery, a Greek scholar in the early 19th Century named Alexander Ypsilanti decided to "purge and purify" the Modern Greek language from all of the various Turkish, Slavic, regional dialect, and various vulgerizations it had fallen pray to, and to do a errr.. Catharsis or "cleansing" of the spoken language of the people-- who are called demos, hence "demotic".

Well this "cleansed" Greek became known as the Catharitic , while the language of the people--with all its err.."Corruptions" , the demotic.

Now think of the absurdity of a DooG thinking/writing in -huh?--demotic, or "People-ese".

I think in DooGese And Noooooooo-body is "cleansing" me. I need my aroma for my perfume business.

And so not to end on a didactic note , I offer a Pick of a Learned and Distinguised Member contemplating this turn of events >>>PICK

the DoooooooooooooooG is more complex and deeper than we think.

But he (she???) is nice.

And technically very saavy.

[capybara]

dooooog rules, others drule.