Eat our own dog food?

Sometimes, a saying comes into popular use that I really don’t understand.
“Eat our own dog food” is one of those sayings.

i had to go and look this up on the Internet. Theoretically, it comes from an old Alpo dog food commercial with Lorne Greene, where he claims that he feeds Alpo to his own dogs. Okay…anyone notice something there? Yeah, he said he FED IT TO HIS DOGS! He didn’t anywhere say “this Alpo stuff’s so good, I eat it myself!”

Evidently, someone in Microsoft used this phrase internally, and now we’re stuck with it. Eat our own dog food. Makes absolutely no f’ing sense whatsoever, does it? “eat our own cooking” – now that would make sense, wouldn’t it? We made it, we have to eat what we made. Hands up, anyone who’s actually MADE dog food? And by that, I don’t mean you grabbed a can opener and opened a tin of it. Hands up if you’ve,  oh I dunno, ground up liver and kidneys into a mushy paste and then maybe mixed it with some grains like rice or barley, all getting ready to feed it to your dog. And then, who among you has then thought to yourself, “Gee, maybe I should eat some of this crap!” Anyone?

So, someone misunderstands an old dog food commercial and uses that in an email, and now we’re stuck with a world full of people talking about eating their own dog food. And I’m not sure what’s worse – that this can happen, or that the rest of the world seems okay to just go along with it.

“Eat our own dog food? hyuk, hyuk – that’s a good one!” Nobody says ” Eat our own dog food? WTF is wrong with you!” Nope. Instead it’s “hyuk, hyuk – good one! PWN!”

There’s another little gem, eh? PWN. Some dumb ass makes a typo and the world has a new word. Because some huntin’ and peckin’ nimrod can’t hit the O (by the way, for those of you hunters and peckers out there who may not know, the O and the P are right beside each other on your standard North American keyboard), because this doofus can’t type and, evidently is unaware of tools like spell check, my kids are now sitting in the basement playing on the Playstation and yelling things like “oh yeah, I pwned you! PWNAGE!”

thanks, man. I appreciate it…