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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone who refers to Oklahoma as "OK"...
....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.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)That's much too informal for a state of this fine Union.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...and did that promotional video for them with Chevy Chase!
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)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
(135,425 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,906 posts)You will see plenty of bumper stickers saying "Oklahoma is NOT OK!"
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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
(111,906 posts)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
(4,835 posts)Did he say it a bunch of times - like Kevin Costner did in the movie.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The other Howard University
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I tried that Kentucky Jelly once. Tasted bland and gave me the squirts.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,728 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)The Buckeye State.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)OH HI DE ME
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)AK!
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)you warned me, fair and square
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Is if AK was 2 states earlier into statehood..
wandy
(3,539 posts)Note the family resemblance.
MADem
(135,425 posts)MA DE
MA IN
CA NE
CO CO
CO IN
OR
FL AK ....
So many possibilities....!
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)It's an embarrassment of riches
MADem
(135,425 posts)struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)We're moving into new territory here
MADem
(135,425 posts)CA LA MA RI!!!!!!!
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)CA LA MA RI is excellent!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Anyone going up against you in STATE WARS is hitting a
LA ND MI NE~~!!!!!! You're da bomb!
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)So here's a beer
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)PA MA OR ME.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I had started trying to construct something similar, but then I saw yours and realized I couldn't possibly top it.
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panader0
(25,816 posts)should not be referred to as BM. Well, maybe Barry Manilow.
MADem
(135,425 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)is that OK? No, I mean can I call Oklahoma, North Texas?
Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)Last edited Sat May 24, 2014, 05:56 AM - Edit history (1)
Google Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein if ya don't get it.
bpollen
(110 posts)but I pronounce it oak-ee
MADem
(135,425 posts)Gothmog
(144,885 posts)Oklahoma sucks
Seeking Serenity
(2,840 posts)are NOT a bunch of 18th century pirates.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)What is more, if you refer to my spouse as BJ (his real initials), please do not do it in front of children.
Leme
(1,092 posts)but one of the few Broadway songs I will hum etc is Oklahoma. I don't know why they shout OK at the end.
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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
(15,512 posts)It's spelled ÇA and DU is supposed to be a refuge from bad French.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)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
(15,512 posts)Oklahoma
O.K. L - A - H - O - M - A
OKLAHOMA!
Yeeow!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)We just wanted to call the place Oming.
Wolf
(I know somebody is going to say Wy Oming? Idaho..)
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)referring to them as WA could mean they are a bunch of crybabies.