Oklahomans spend about 3.5 million days hunting every year. What are they hunting for? Their top soil…
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During World War Two, Boise City, Oklahoma was mistakenly bombed by our Air Force. The military was torn between trying to cover up their error or just destroying the rest of the state.
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Oklahoma is one of three states that produces helium. So, even though Oklahoma is the nation’s 20th largest state, it weighs almost nothing.
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Oklahoma was part of the Louisiana Purchase. The French threw in Oklahoma after we complained that someone had taken a bite out of Missouri and then put it back in the box.
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Gordon Matthews, born in Oklahoma in 1936, invented voicemail… it is the best way to get your grandfather to pause for nearly a minute, then repeat his name a few times before hanging up in confusion.
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Oklahoma’s state insect? The honeybee. Oklahoma’s state allergy symptom? Anaphylaxic shock.
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Apache leader Geronimo was buried in Fort Sill Oklahoma in 1909. Some say he died of pneumonia… others say that he was just looking for a way to get out of Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma is part of “Tornado Alley”. Oklahoma has a special advantage when it comes to tornadoes. Any area devastated by a tornado in Oklahoma doesn’t look much different than it did BEFORE the tornado.
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The Oklahoma Aquarium is a must-see. Not only does it have sharks and sea turtles, but it also is home to most of Oklahoma’s drinking water.
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Oklahoma’s official state meal is fried okra, squash, cornbread, barbecue pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken-fried steak, pecan pie, and black-eyed peas, adopted in 1988. Oklahoma’s state preexisting condition? Morbid obesity.
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
That made me laugh, I thought that was where the yellow brick road was 🙁
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Dorothy came from Kansas, NP.
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Oh, so not even close 😆
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Sure! They are right next to each other.
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I imagine lots of people die trying to get out. It’s probably preferable to living there….
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My tribe is located there. They started out in the Ohio valley… but, eventually ended up there…
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We had a friend move there. He followed a woman who wouldn’t leave. The marriage is
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happy but he’s been there 19 years and still hates it.
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Did it take you an entire minute to decide how to end that sentence?
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Morbid obesity sounds about right. That is one heck of a meal!
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A LOT of soul food.
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“During World War Two, Boise City, Oklahoma was mistakenly bombed by our Air Force.”
Wait…really?
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Oh yeah! No one was hurt, though.
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Uhhh…WTF happened?! That’s a big oops.
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There was a practice range nearby. And, yes… when the army makes an oops, it is often a big oops.
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Have you heard about the unhappily married gal of loose morals named Ida, who moved from the town of Boise City to the city of Boise to become an Ida ho? Unfortunately, that wasn’t OK with her spouse, so she got a divorce and became a girly of Bliss just down the roadhouse from Boise.
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You are a fiend, sir. Every great pun you make burns me to my soul…
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As an Oklahoman, I fully support this message… 😉
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My dad was born in Newkirk. You should see the one I wrote about Lubbock, TX… where I finished High School and went to college…
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You know you’re in trouble when the best that the greatest Broadway lyricist could come up with about the state is just that it was OK.
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