IT'S A DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD AND MILK-BONE UNDERWEAR
A DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD AND I'M WEARING MILK-BONE UNDERWEAR is an 8X6 limited edition, signed print featuring the idiom “it’s a dog-eat-dog world.”
The work spotlights ruthless, soulless people who’d do anything to get ahead. Some politicians, influencers, and billionaires, for example. They’re out for personal gain no matter how detrimental their actions. Every man, or woman, for himself.
It’s Darwin and the survival of the merciless fittest. It’s Shih Tzu against Rottweilers or Presa Canarios. It’s worshippers of Mammon and Tiamat. It’s that nasty little pug of a senator from Ohio. It’s Trump’s pit bull, Stephen Miller, against the U.S. Constitution. It’s trans-haters, racists and holier-than-thou preachers.
In 43 B.C., Marcus Terentius Varro wrote "canis caninam non est" or “a dog does not eat the flesh of a dog.” Erasmus in the 1500s wrote similar words. Even a dog has its limits after all.
In 1813 a British weekly published an essay about vicious business practices. “Dog eat dog” it said, “is now our commercial motto.”
The words spread from there with, somewhere along the line, the addition of world. It’s a dog-eat-dog world.
Some people, though, hear the words as doggy dog world. Case in point, Snoop Dogg’s single called “Doggy Dogg World.”
"It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear" was spoken in 1918 by Cheer’s popular barfly and underachiever Norm. George Wendt played Hilary Norman Peterson on Cheers. Wendt died in 2025. R.I.P.
The work spotlights ruthless, soulless people who’d do anything to get ahead. Some politicians, influencers, and billionaires, for example. They’re out for personal gain no matter how detrimental their actions. Every man, or woman, for himself.
It’s Darwin and the survival of the merciless fittest. It’s Shih Tzu against Rottweilers or Presa Canarios. It’s worshippers of Mammon and Tiamat. It’s that nasty little pug of a senator from Ohio. It’s Trump’s pit bull, Stephen Miller, against the U.S. Constitution. It’s trans-haters, racists and holier-than-thou preachers.
In 43 B.C., Marcus Terentius Varro wrote "canis caninam non est" or “a dog does not eat the flesh of a dog.” Erasmus in the 1500s wrote similar words. Even a dog has its limits after all.
In 1813 a British weekly published an essay about vicious business practices. “Dog eat dog” it said, “is now our commercial motto.”
The words spread from there with, somewhere along the line, the addition of world. It’s a dog-eat-dog world.
Some people, though, hear the words as doggy dog world. Case in point, Snoop Dogg’s single called “Doggy Dogg World.”
"It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear" was spoken in 1918 by Cheer’s popular barfly and underachiever Norm. George Wendt played Hilary Norman Peterson on Cheers. Wendt died in 2025. R.I.P.