Alf, the lathe dog.

Alf The Lathe Dog

pete_d: Actually, ‘Alf dog’ sounds like a great comic strip idea.
mircea_popescu: It does! This dog that read everything back in kindergarten…

asciilifeform: Actually my first thought, reading the log, is that it’d be something like a lathe dog.
mircea_popescu: Running dog of the ba cultists! Thrice cussed.

In other news, Oglaf has nothing to worry about.