When I set out to name this blog, I bounced around a lot of ideas with a lot of different people.  Most of these ideas were too lame to remember, much less post, but I do recall clunkers like ‘Making Mountains out of Molehills’ and ‘Two Boobs are Better than None.’ Alright, alright.  I told you they sucked.  They’re too obvious .. and limited.  Too boob-centric.  And I’m not all about the boob. I am an interesting and multi-faceted human being.

I even briefly considered ‘Size Matters’ … but then decided it sounds eerily like a similarly-themed blog written from a male point of view and I ran screaming in the other direction.

So, one night while my husband and I were out having drinks (and some sinful creation called ‘Gouda Beignets’), we played around with a lot of these different ideas … including the crappers above … and happened upon Old Dog, New Tits.  We both busted out laughing … maybe it was the booze … and decided that was it.  Even though it would have to mean my being cool with calling myself an ‘old dog.’ I decided to hear it in my head as its streetsmart cousin …  ’dawg’ … and ran with it.

So, I bought the domain and got to work.

And I remember telling my friends about the name and getting the same initial reaction from them.  Laughter.  (That’s good, right?)  Except for one friend who seemed concerned with using the word ‘tit’ in my blog name.  “Aren’t you afraid it might turn some people off?” she asked me.  And I responded with “My mom likes it.” (She’s a pretty reliable hash mark on the prude-to-offensive yardstick. Right, mom?)

Of course, I will give my friend this credit.  Having ‘tit’ in the title has prevented my inclusion in certain blog directories.  But … I’ve learned that those directories are not so much the ones in which I want to be listed. I don’t know.  They’re rooted in their ideals or something.  I won’t sink to bashing any of them now.  In writing.  (I’ll totally do it in person though if you ask me later … so there’s no paper trail.) Oh, and ‘tits’ has navigated many a colorful googler to my website.  I think it’s the number one word that leads ‘googlers’ to me.

Anyway, let’s take a look at the tiny little word ‘tit’ for a minute.  As pointed out a while ago by one of my ODNT friends, it’s one of the original ‘Seven Words you can never say on Television,’ a groundbreaking comedy bit made famous by George Carlin.  Remember?  Well, if you don’t, I’m posting it here.

DON’T WATCH THE LINK WITH YOUR KIDS IN THE ROOM! (Actually, one of the youtube entries gives that same warning and then adds “unless you’re a cool parent.”  What??? Although, they spelled it ‘your’ so, you know ….)

He said the same thing that I’ve been saying all this time.  ‘Tit’ soooooo should not be keeping the kind of company it’s keeping here.  The other six are killer words that you’ll only see on premium cable or something like ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Carlin says ’tits’ sounds like a snack food.

‘Pass the cheese tits, please.”

It’s really a cute little word.  A palindrome. And it’s only three letters.  How bad can it be?