What is the origin of the term “cone of shame”?
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What is the origin of the term "cone of shame"?
This refers to the plastic cone affixed around dog's necks when they have had a procedure or medical condition.
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What is the origin of the term "cone of shame"?
This refers to the plastic cone affixed around dog's necks when they have had a procedure or medical condition.
etymology phrase-origin
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Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
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Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
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No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
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I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
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@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
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What is the origin of the term "cone of shame"?
This refers to the plastic cone affixed around dog's necks when they have had a procedure or medical condition.
etymology phrase-origin
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What is the origin of the term "cone of shame"?
This refers to the plastic cone affixed around dog's necks when they have had a procedure or medical condition.
etymology phrase-origin
etymology phrase-origin
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Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
10
No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
6
@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
15 hours ago
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show 9 more comments
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Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
10
No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
6
@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
15 hours ago
6
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Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
4
Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
10
10
No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
4
I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
6
6
@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
15 hours ago
@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
15 hours ago
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I found a reference that predates the Up movie by a good eight years, although I'm sure there must be older usages out there somewhere.
In a 2001 Usenet post to the alt.fashion newsgroup, user Michele317 says:
on a fashion note, he's
refusing to wear what the vet calls an 'elizabethan collar' and what i call
'the cone of shame': that plastic lampshade thing. i took him to the vet
yesterday and found out his runny eye was due to a tiny scratch in his cornea.
i decorated the cone with stickers, and removed the gauze tie and replaced it
with a jaunty ribbon, but all to no avail.
and a massive thanks to everyone who told me dog accessory websites... so much
cute stuff out there!
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
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According to wikipedia and knowyoumeme.com, the term was first used in the movie "up."
Wikipedia:
The 2009 animated film Up coined the colloquial name "cone of shame"
for the collars, which feature as a minor plot point.
And knowyourmeme.com:
The Cone of Shame is a meme that originates from the 2009 Pixar movie
UP. In it, a golden retriever by the name of Dug is placed in a
medical device called an Elizabethian Collar as a punishment by his
pack.
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
add a comment |
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2 Answers
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I found a reference that predates the Up movie by a good eight years, although I'm sure there must be older usages out there somewhere.
In a 2001 Usenet post to the alt.fashion newsgroup, user Michele317 says:
on a fashion note, he's
refusing to wear what the vet calls an 'elizabethan collar' and what i call
'the cone of shame': that plastic lampshade thing. i took him to the vet
yesterday and found out his runny eye was due to a tiny scratch in his cornea.
i decorated the cone with stickers, and removed the gauze tie and replaced it
with a jaunty ribbon, but all to no avail.
and a massive thanks to everyone who told me dog accessory websites... so much
cute stuff out there!
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
add a comment |
up vote
21
down vote
I found a reference that predates the Up movie by a good eight years, although I'm sure there must be older usages out there somewhere.
In a 2001 Usenet post to the alt.fashion newsgroup, user Michele317 says:
on a fashion note, he's
refusing to wear what the vet calls an 'elizabethan collar' and what i call
'the cone of shame': that plastic lampshade thing. i took him to the vet
yesterday and found out his runny eye was due to a tiny scratch in his cornea.
i decorated the cone with stickers, and removed the gauze tie and replaced it
with a jaunty ribbon, but all to no avail.
and a massive thanks to everyone who told me dog accessory websites... so much
cute stuff out there!
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
add a comment |
up vote
21
down vote
up vote
21
down vote
I found a reference that predates the Up movie by a good eight years, although I'm sure there must be older usages out there somewhere.
In a 2001 Usenet post to the alt.fashion newsgroup, user Michele317 says:
on a fashion note, he's
refusing to wear what the vet calls an 'elizabethan collar' and what i call
'the cone of shame': that plastic lampshade thing. i took him to the vet
yesterday and found out his runny eye was due to a tiny scratch in his cornea.
i decorated the cone with stickers, and removed the gauze tie and replaced it
with a jaunty ribbon, but all to no avail.
and a massive thanks to everyone who told me dog accessory websites... so much
cute stuff out there!
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
I found a reference that predates the Up movie by a good eight years, although I'm sure there must be older usages out there somewhere.
In a 2001 Usenet post to the alt.fashion newsgroup, user Michele317 says:
on a fashion note, he's
refusing to wear what the vet calls an 'elizabethan collar' and what i call
'the cone of shame': that plastic lampshade thing. i took him to the vet
yesterday and found out his runny eye was due to a tiny scratch in his cornea.
i decorated the cone with stickers, and removed the gauze tie and replaced it
with a jaunty ribbon, but all to no avail.
and a massive thanks to everyone who told me dog accessory websites... so much
cute stuff out there!
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
answered 16 hours ago
shoover
728516
728516
add a comment |
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
According to wikipedia and knowyoumeme.com, the term was first used in the movie "up."
Wikipedia:
The 2009 animated film Up coined the colloquial name "cone of shame"
for the collars, which feature as a minor plot point.
And knowyourmeme.com:
The Cone of Shame is a meme that originates from the 2009 Pixar movie
UP. In it, a golden retriever by the name of Dug is placed in a
medical device called an Elizabethian Collar as a punishment by his
pack.
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
According to wikipedia and knowyoumeme.com, the term was first used in the movie "up."
Wikipedia:
The 2009 animated film Up coined the colloquial name "cone of shame"
for the collars, which feature as a minor plot point.
And knowyourmeme.com:
The Cone of Shame is a meme that originates from the 2009 Pixar movie
UP. In it, a golden retriever by the name of Dug is placed in a
medical device called an Elizabethian Collar as a punishment by his
pack.
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
add a comment |
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
According to wikipedia and knowyoumeme.com, the term was first used in the movie "up."
Wikipedia:
The 2009 animated film Up coined the colloquial name "cone of shame"
for the collars, which feature as a minor plot point.
And knowyourmeme.com:
The Cone of Shame is a meme that originates from the 2009 Pixar movie
UP. In it, a golden retriever by the name of Dug is placed in a
medical device called an Elizabethian Collar as a punishment by his
pack.
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
According to wikipedia and knowyoumeme.com, the term was first used in the movie "up."
Wikipedia:
The 2009 animated film Up coined the colloquial name "cone of shame"
for the collars, which feature as a minor plot point.
And knowyourmeme.com:
The Cone of Shame is a meme that originates from the 2009 Pixar movie
UP. In it, a golden retriever by the name of Dug is placed in a
medical device called an Elizabethian Collar as a punishment by his
pack.
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
answered 16 hours ago
drewhart
1,08528
1,08528
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
add a comment |
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
Yep, I was remembering it from a movie, and "Up" was likely the one. (And, of course, "cone of silence" comes from the TV show "Get Smart".)
– Hot Licks
16 hours ago
20
20
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
Dude my mom used this term in the 1990s. Come on now. 2009?
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
12
12
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
@WakeDemons3 Yeah, this answer is completely incorrect. The "Cone of Shame" meme specifically may have originated from Up, but the term "cone of shame" definitely did not.
– only_pro
14 hours ago
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Because the dogs often look ashamed to be wearing it. Either because it's a sartorial disaster, because it's usually put in place to prevent them from doing the inappropriate things they want to do (nibble out the stiches), or because of whatever knuckleheaded thing they did to get them in the cone in the first place. Would you wear the thing? If you did, how would you feel? It's like a dunce cap.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
Explaining the concept of "shame" is not the same thing as an etymology.
– WakeDemons3
16 hours ago
10
No, it literally is not. The "etymology" of Superman? Superman's "etymology story"? "On the etymology of the species" by Charles Darwin? And my first comment did give an origin; that is different from a first known attestation (which is also different from an origin!). But I don't need to argue with you. You need to edit your question.
– Dan Bron
16 hours ago
4
I agree that I have heard this term for a lot longer than the movie "Up." However, wikipedia repeats this claim, and tells that the E-collar was first patented in 1959. So I guess the answer must be somewhere between 1959 and 2009.
– cobaltduck
15 hours ago
6
@Wake It is not just the origin of the word, it's the history of the word. Including its first known attestations, syntactic and semantic changes over time, deviations and derivations, influences from and on other languages (including cognates), etc. It's an "origin" in the sense of "origin story". Superman was born to Jor-El and Lara, but that's hardly all we care about when we talk about his origin story, including why he has super powers. You don't need to argue with me about this: you can look up etymology in Wikipedia, for example.
– Dan Bron
15 hours ago