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Initial 2011 Tulsa State Fair observation The parking lot at the fairgrounds looks better than Bell’s.
Duh An Oklahoma sheriff will not investigate reports that a Woodward woman stripped naked at a charity golf event because, well, nobody filed a complaint. And until someone does, Sheriff Gary Stanley said, “The matter is a victimless incident.” The event chairman said nobody asked the woman to remove her clothes during a putting challenge; she just did. Reason enough, we think, to move to Woodward.
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, can I still water my lawn?” In August, days after instituting voluntary water restrictions, which nobody noticed, the Mayor’s Office lifted them, which also went unnoticed. Tulsans then quickly resumed using all the water they … never stopped using.
Eavesdroppings Seeing a delivery door inexplicably open on a Borden milk truck, the woman, pointing to the rows of gallon milk containers within, said, “This is not going to end well.”
Random Oklahoma reference From Politico’s Roger Simon: “Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he will beat up on the Fed chairman like a redheaded mule, accuses Ben Bernanke of being ‘almost treasonous’ and says death penalty too good for him. Would send him to Oklahoma instead.”
And this is with half our roads under construction. Just wait till we get rid of the cones. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tulsa is the 13th-most-dangerous city in which to drive. Fort Lauderdale is deadliest, but it has many more elderly residents who can’t see over the steering wheel.
Whoever is in charge of such things … Really, we have enough frozen yogurt places in town. Thanks.
If possible, that “I’m a MAN” tirade looks even sillier now. Apparently, OSU head football coach Mike Gundy has a uniform code for those entering his home. Who does he think he is, Tulsa Public Schools?
Some additional thoughts …
Stupid idiot, which Gundy allegedly called the contractor, is redundant. Even OU English majors know that.
If, as Gundy said, his wife was “offended” by the sight of an OU insignia on a contractor’s shirt, can we assume she also cringed when her husband told the guy to take the “$@#%ing” thing off”?
Did Gundy really complain about the affront to “OSU soil”? Not for nothing, but one can use a “soil” metaphor to describe the hallowed ground beneath Dachau or the World Trade Center, but a living room in Stillwater? It’s not like the Sooner Schooner did donuts on the 30-yard line at Boone Pickens Stadium.
It was an OU baseball shirt. How was that Gundy’s business?
Coach, you ever see the movie “Stripes”? Bill Murray has a great line: “Lighten up, Francis.”
With friends like this, who needs gun-toting senators as enemies? One minute Sen. Tom Coburn was telling a crowd in Langley, Okla., that the president is a “wonderful man” and the next he was reminding them Obama is an “African-American male” who received “tremendous advantage from a lot of these (government) programs.”
We’re fine if the senator wants to play the crazy uncle from time to time, but when he intimates that the president owes his success to affirmative action, he’s race baiting. What’s particularly disturbing — and what Coburn readily admits — he likes the guy!
Ups and downs
UP ... Russell Deming, who once supervised William Sturdivant, the man who spent six days camped out on the Clear Channel tower. Instead of using him as a punch line, Deming was gracious and sympathetic in talking about his former employee.
DOWN ... Gov. Mary Fallin for supporting the construction of the Fort Gruber chapel. While organizers call the place nondenominational, it is for Christians — and the governor knows it. Not only will there be a cross on the steeple, but World Mission Builders is building it. According to its website, the company’s mission is “To see the lost come to Christ and be discipled.” Nondenominational, my mezuzah.
UP ... Daniel Cameron and Blake Ewing for opening grocery stores downtown. If this doesn’t completely revitalize downtown, I’m blaming the Shock.
NEUTRAL ... QuikTrip. UP … for keeping its summer drink prices in effect through Aug. 23. DOWN ... for discontinuing them on Aug. 24, when the temperature hit 108.
