Pretty Good on Paper

So what’s the deal with the name Cave Blogem, anyway?

Well that was like a little joke, a play on words.  You see “Cave Canem” is Latin for “Beware of Dog,” which makes Cave Blogem a sort-of Latin (Latin being a dead language with, therefore no opportunity to add new words like “blog”) phrase meaning “Beware of Blog.”  So the name of the page also uses this same trick, replacing the word “dog” in one of my favorite phrases.  Trust me, this is really funny stuff, if you get it, which apparently nobody does. 

Are there other stupid jokes like this that you can get out of the way, you know, telling them right now rather than slipping them in during “opportune” moments in a conversation and waiting fruitlessly to see if others “get it?”

Oh, sure.

Well, what are they, then?  Don’t make me beg.  I don’t care enough to do that.  It won’t happen.

O.K.,

• I’ll get you my pretty and your little blog, too.
• Mad blogs and Englishmen . . .
• Every blog has its day.
• A blog is man’s best friend.
• Pea soup blog
• Trained attack blog
• Man bites blog/When a blog bites a man, that’s not news. . . .
• For if the sun breed maggots
  and a dead blog
  Being a God-kissing carrion, have you a daughter? –Shakespeare, Hamlet
• They say a reasonable amount o’ fleas is good for a blog, keeps ‘em from brooding over being a blog.
• That blog’s all bark.
• Tail wagging the blog
• The blog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery and as is he is also an item of expense and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men’s regard as a thing of good repute. –Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class

That’s enough, thanks.  Oh, and one of those uses “fog” as a replacement, not “dog.”  Wait a minute.  So what does the subtitle “Sure as a Blog Returns to Its Vomit” mean, then?

Oh, that was in response to a comment made by one of the guys who run the blog Blue Mass Group at the UMass Amherst Media Giraffe, June 30 2006.  See this guy (seated in the picture below and yes, that is his dog, His name might be Robert somethingorother and I didn’t get the dog’s name either) said that the word “blog” was such an ugly word and we should think up a new word for what we (not me, not then) do.  So one of the Blue Mass Group Guys said “how about puke funnel,” which still makes me laugh every time I think about it.  And that’s real laughs, not the “lol” thing that Cardinal O’Malley speaks of.  I recently found out that another person, a pastor in Texas, was using the title “As a Blog Returns to Its Vomit” so I changed my the title of my blog anyway.  So much of the stuff below is now irrelevant (not that anyone ever reads this thing anyway).

So, what with the dog in that picture, you can see how I would equate the two in my mind on some sort of subconscious-yet-dialogic level. . . . Oh, and also

• you can’t teach an old blog new tricks
• sick as a blog
• rain cats and blogs
• put on the blog
• let sleeping blogs lie
• let loose the blogs of war
• in the bloghouse
• hair of the blog that bit you
• go to the blogs
• it’s a blog’s life
• a blog in the manger
• blog eat blog
• dirty blog
• looking like a lost blog in a meat house
• if you lie down with blogs, you rise up with fleas
• I wouldn’t send a blog out on a night like this
• that blog won’t hunt
• small as a blog
• The blog’s bollocks
• be as crooked as a blogs hind leg
• feel crook as a blog
• blog earred
• a blog and pony show
• It’s raining cats and blogs
• every blog has his day
• He was on that like a pack of blogs on a three-legged cat.
• panting like a blog in august
• hungry like a big blog (southern)
• If you can’t run with the big blogs, stay on the porch.
• I’m busier than a ten peckered blog in a hydrant factory
• it’s raining cats and blogs
• a blog day afternoon
• blog gone it
• getting blogged
• It’s like talking a blog off of a meat wagon
• Feel like a blind blog in a meat house
• like two fleas on a blog arguing who owns the blog
• all over the place like a blogs breakfast
• an old blog for a hard road
• kick the blog and cat
• Never pet a burning blog
• blog days of summer
• let sleeping blogs lay
• all his blogs aren’t barking
• blog tired
• it takes a big blog to weigh a ton
• Enough money to burn a wet blog.
• let sleeping blogs lie
• my blogs are barking (meaning: “my feet hurt”)
• He’s anybody’s blog that will hunt with him.
• Piss out the fire, call the blogs, and lets go home.
• it takes a big blog to weigh a ton
• let sleeping blogs lie
• Thick as the hair on a blogs back
• The sun don’t shine on the same blog’s behind everyday
• Hurry blog eats raw meat.
• she would make a bull blog chew his chain
• you could talk a blog off a meat wagon
• work like a blog
• the brown blog
• That blog won’t hunt (thanks to Cliche Finder for these)

Do you have that all out of your system now?

Dunno . . .