Anyone who refers to Oklahoma as "OK"...

[jberryhill]

....is spreading a right wing meme that Oklahoma is "okay".

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that Oklahoma has some room for improvement. One of those rooms would be the governor's office.

So let's not use "OK", because it encourages an unwarranted self-congratulatory complacency.

[lob1]

1. O.K.

[MrScorpio]

2. And don't refer to Alabama as "AL"

That's much too informal for a state of this fine Union.

[jberryhill]

3. But Paul Simon wrote their state song!

...and did that promotional video for them with Chevy Chase!

[Exposethefrauds]

25. This is not the AL State Song?

[Scootaloo]

26. "Ab" always made more sense, anyway

Abnormal
Abberant
Absurd
Absolutely no reason to visit
About time to rethink the whole "50 states" thing

...I was glad to get out of there. Even the wild boondocks of an Alaska fishingtown was a vast improvement

[MADem]

32. Yeah, Paul Simon went to all that trouble for nuttin' then...

[TexasTowelie]

4. You haven't driven around Dallas in the last few decades, have you?

You will see plenty of bumper stickers saying "Oklahoma is NOT OK!"

[jberryhill]

6. Not in a convertible

But I'd never been to Dallas until last year when I was asked to speak at a conference.

I was at the Omni Hotel and I wanted to walk to Dealey Plaza. I asked a doorman and he gestured down the street saying, "It's easy. It's just back and to the left."

True story.

[TexasTowelie]

17. That isn't a short walk.

I guess it wasn't during the worst part of summer because some people would have heatstroke walking that far.

Even money says that one of the local transients asked for a hand-out on that excursion--that happens to me frequently.

Then there was that time last month that I was offered money for ahem... I was nearly broke, but I wasn't that desperate.

[Blanks]

35. That's funny...

Did he say it a bunch of times - like Kevin Costner did in the movie.

[struggle4progress]

5. Also, Missouri is tired of being regarded as one of the Three Stooges

[jberryhill]

8. The want to be called "Mr. Howard" now?

[struggle4progress]

10. Dr Howard to you

[jberryhill]

12. I graduated from Howard University!

The other Howard University

[struggle4progress]

7. MA and PA are thinking of writing us out of their will

[jberryhill]

13. They are leaving it all to ME

[MADem]

33. No, no, no....it's MI NE !!!!! nt

[jberryhill]

14. ...for stealing their KY Jelly

I tried that Kentucky Jelly once. Tasted bland and gave me the squirts.

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. Now I'm feeling IL.

[DonViejo]

52. OH!!!!

The Buckeye State.

[struggle4progress]

9. What sentences can we make with state abbreviations?

OH HI DE ME

[jberryhill]

11. AK!

AK!

[struggle4progress]

19. GA!

you warned me, fair and square

[pipoman]

42. The only thing that would make it better

Is if AK was 2 states earlier into statehood..

[wandy]

49. No, no, no. That would be ACK!!!!!!

Note the family resemblance.

[MADem]

23. So many words...

MA DE

MA IN

CA NE

CO CO


CO IN

OR

FL AK ....

So many possibilities....!

[struggle4progress]

27. You forgot CA ME, LA ME, LA ND, MA NE, MI NE, MO OR, HI ND, PA NE, WA DE ...

It's an embarrassment of riches

[MADem]

28. Oh, I wasn't trying to be all inclusive, I was overwhelmed with the possibilities!!! nt

[struggle4progress]

29. AL MO ND, AR CA DE, DE MA ND

We're moving into new territory here

[MADem]

31. DAMN!

CA LA MA RI!!!!!!!

[struggle4progress]

34. MO MS CO OK IN GA CA LA MA RI DE AL

CA LA MA RI is excellent!

[MADem]

36. CALAMARI MEAL would work even better, and I bow to your superior skills!!

Anyone going up against you in STATE WARS is hitting a

LA ND MI NE~~!!!!!! You're da bomb!

[struggle4progress]

37. ME AL is better, and I've never come close to CA LA MA RI

So here's a beer

[SummerSnow]

48. You can make a sentence..

PA MA OR ME.

[struggle4progress]

51. IN CA ME AL MA DE MA ND IN GA WA ND

[Jim Lane]

56. Nice work!

I had started trying to construct something similar, but then I saw yours and realized I couldn't possibly top it.

[panader0]

16. Also, Bob Marley, Bill Murray and (ahem) Barry Manilow

should not be referred to as BM. Well, maybe Barry Manilow.

[MADem]

24. But..... but...... but......!!! He writes the SONGS, man! nt

[itsrobert]

18. how about North Texas

is that OK? No, I mean can I call Oklahoma, North Texas?

[Exposethefrauds]

20. or they could just be into show tunes too

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Google Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein if ya don't get it.

[bpollen]

21. I don't know about you...

but I pronounce it oak-ee

[MADem]

22. And anyone who abbreviates the novel Great Gatsby as GG is homophobic....

and shameful reference.

[Gothmog]

30. Why does Texas not slide into the Gulf of Mexico?

Oklahoma sucks

[Seeking Serenity]

38. And we in AR

are NOT a bunch of 18th century pirates.

[frazzled]

39. And please don't say my state is IL

What is more, if you refer to my spouse as BJ (his real initials), please do not do it in front of children.

[Leme]

40. I may not agree with it

but one of the few Broadway songs I will hum etc is Oklahoma. I don't know why they shout OK at the end.
-
Kinda like Blurred Lines. ( I like the Jimmy Fallon version, I really don't know the lyrics at all. Just sounds like a Muppet song).

[ucrdem]

41. Also, every single person who uses CA as an abbreviation for CA is using a francophobic meme.

It's spelled ÇA and DU is supposed to be a refuge from bad French.

[CBGLuthier]

43. No thanks. We may not be OK, but we also do not let outsiders dictate to us.

I don't know about you but it seems to me the whole FUCKING COUNTRY needs a little improvement but lets keep sniping at states like we don't all suck.

My STATE IS OK. The people running it at the moment are NOT.

[ucrdem]

45. You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!

Oklahoma
O.K. L - A - H - O - M - A
OKLAHOMA!
Yeeow!

[jberryhill]

55. OK is okay, but excellent would be better

[msanthrope]

44. DUzy rec. nt

[rock]

47. Sometimes "OK" is just a pair of letters

[struggle4progress]

57. But which pair? That's the question

[Wolf Frankula]

50. But Wy Oming? Wy Oming?

We just wanted to call the place Oming.

Wolf

(I know somebody is going to say Wy Oming? Idaho..)

[jberryhill]

54. If I was Tibet on an answer, I'd guess it was Buddhists

[giftedgirl77]

53. Lets not forget Washingtion

referring to them as WA could mean they are a bunch of crybabies.