Updated Wednesday, May 7th:
The Lost Ogle was born Sunday, May 13, 2007. Nearly a year later, we’ve authored nearly 400 posts (Patrick 179, Tony 125, Clark Matthews 80). Out of these, we’ve selected 20 of the more popular ones (listed in chronological order) to showcase here.
The reason we are doing this is because these posts pretty much define who we are and what we are all about. Depending upon your personality (and maturity), this can be either a really good or a really bad thing. If it’s good, hopefully you’ll stay for awhile and then come back to see what we have to say in the future. If you’re really daring, you can maybe even leave a comment.
And if you thing the stuff below sucks, then we hope Gary England strikes lightening upon you.
May 14, 2007: Amy McRee’s Pink Bikini
We’ve received a ton of traffic from people searching for Amy McRee. These search engine queries have ranged from “Amy McRee” to “Amy McRee’s Pink Bikini” to one poor person searching “The Third Ogle Amy Mcree.” If you’re one of those people, go ahead and click here to see the famous picture. Or click here to buy the amazingly cool t-shirt we made in dedication to it.
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July 16, 2007: The beginning of the Top 100 Oklahoma Embarrassments
After a couple of months of writing, we got the idea to come up with a list of 100 Oklahoma Embarrassments to mock silly centennial list being published in the Oklahoman. A few days (and whole bunch of emails later) we had a list of 100 Oklahoman’s who embarrassed us. Ten weeks later and The Oklahoma Gazette highlighted the list in the Chicken Fried News.
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July 19, 2007: Dean Blevins On-Air Urination
About the only thing better than hearing our YouTube clip of Dean’s taking a leak while on the Sports Animal is hearing it live. Since that is now impossible, the YouTube clip will have to do.
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August 1, 2007: Introducing the world to Ms. Lauren Richardson
Sometimes I wonder if the Fox 25 Morning Show gets better ratings since we “discovered” (and have heavily promoted) that Lauren Richardson is their morning show reporter. Anyway, the first post we wrote about Lauren featured a YouTube clip of a silly “news” report she did at a new Braum’s. For some reason, many many people have enjoyed watching a hot young blond female reporter make ice cream.
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August 14, 2007: The Jim Traber Drinking Game
We got the idea for the Jim Traber Drinking Game from a couple of reader comments. 30 minutes later the Jim Traber Drinking game was born. Three hours after that Al Eschbach and Jim Traber were reading it live on WWLS, attributing it to some Ogle brother. The next morning, the Morning Animals read it, attributing it to some blog. We threw a fit, Pork sent us an email, and the next morning they read it again, giving us our proper due.
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August 23, 2007: Revealing the OU Scrotal Assassin
When the Oklahoman broke the story of the OU fan ripping the scrotum of the Texas fan, it quickly became an internet phenomenon. Since we’re from Oklahoma, two of us are OU fans, and one of us has been to the incident of the attack too many times (the Henry Hudson’s on NW Expressway), we had to cover the story, too. Our contribution? Identifying the OU Scrotal Assassin.
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September 14, 2007: Power Polls
We love Power Polls. We don’t care if it is identifying some of the most awful local TV commercials, Best Oklahoma High School Nicknames or Top 10 Flaming Lips Songs, we just like them. But what makes them really fun are the discussions that take place in the comments thread. To date, there have over 5,000 reader comments posted at The Lost Ogle.
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September 20, 2007: Sunni Kate Golloway–OU baseball coach’s daughter–naked in Playboy.
The day Tony posted this story The Lost Ogle received over 9,000 unique visitors. Apparently, super sports websites (DeadSpin, With Leather, SportbyBrooks) find it interesting when you reveal that a girl posing in a Playboy college edition is the daughter of a head baseball coach at a major university. But they find it very interesting when you reveal that the university the girl represents in Playboy is also her father’s rival school.
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September 22, 2007: The Mike Gundy /Jenni Carlson Fiasco
If you go to YouTube and search “Mike Gundy”, you’ll probably notice about 5,000 clips or spoofs of his now infamous post game tirade. But what you may not notice is that the most viewed clip was actual uploaded by us. Even thought we didn’t shoot the video, it’s kind of cool to post something that has had over 700,000 views.
Another cool thing is that we’ve never really been big fans of Jenni Carlson. And we would write about that way way way before she was appearing on the Today show. Because of that, when people Googled Jenni Carlson after the Gundy fiasco, we were one of the sites they came to. To date, we’ve had over 12,000 unique visitors looking for info regarding the Oklahoman’s most popular journalist.
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September 24, 2007: Our 100 Ideas for the Oklahoma Idea Initiative
When we reached the end of the top 100 Oklahoma Embarrassments, we figured it would be fun to start a new list. Originally, it was going to be the Top 100 Bars in Oklahoma City. But then we learned coming up with 100 bars (and something to say about them) is actually kind of difficult. Coming up with 100 good ideas to improve our state. That’s easy.
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October 11, 2007: Goth Names Generator
Clark Matthews is clever. So he took some local “celebrities” and put their names through a Goth Name Generator. It was odd how surprisingly accurate the results were.
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October 18, 2007: Oklahoma Halloween Costume Ideas
Coming up with Oklahoma-centric Halloween Costume Idea was fun. Actually creating and wearing one of the costumes was super fun. Getting too drunk in that costume was painful.
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October 23, 2007: Inside the Custer County Sex Scandal
When a Sheriff tried to create a Girls Gone Wild set in prison, we were intrigued. We were even more intrigued by the criminals he cast in the roles.
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November 28, 2007: The 20 Hottest Women in the Oklahoma City News Media
For some reason, this list got a big reaction. The follow-up, the 12 Hottest Men in the OKC Media didn’t get as strong a reaction.
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January 10, 2008: Dave Morris is Hitting This
NEWSFLASH: Dave Morris is kind of a deuche bag. But his girlfriend. HOT!
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January 23, 2008: The Travels of Cardboard Jim
What would you do if you stumbled across a life-size cardboard cutout of Jim Traber? Make him your friend, right? That’s what we did.
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February 29th, 2008: Supporting the ‘Big League City’ Vote
Since we are “Big League,” we decided to support the Big League City campaign. Since we are immature, we went after the opponents in minor league style.
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March 03, 2008: Ogle Madness 2008
As this PDF shows, this was by far the biggest undertaking in Lost Ogle history. Lauren Richardson was the champion. I think this says something about the average Lost Ogle reader, and Ogle Madness voter.
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March 08, 2008: Sally Kern Fiasco
Sally Kern doesn’t seem to like gay people very much. However, single 32-year old celibate music teachers are fine.
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March 25, 2008: Name the NBA Franchise
Now that the Oklahoman has got on this train, this topic has turned pretty boring. We think ours was pretty fun.