Published by Patrick at May 9, 2008
A few months ago, we at The Lost Ogle threw around some potential name ideas for the hopefully soon to be here NBA team. It started off fun, but now hearing someone give their “2-cents” on the name of our future NBA franchise is torture. Seriously, I’d rather listen to Danny Williams spit out tongue twisters for an hour or watch Jenni Carlson and Gan Matthews reenact the pottery scene from Ghost before I’d choose to listen to some caller on the Sports Animal spend five minutes talking about how cool it would be if the team was named the “Barons.” Hell, the Oklahoman even started a cheesy Ogle March Madness style tournament to pick out the name. If they are doing it, the topic has to be lame.
Anyway, to help get everyone off the “Name that NBA Team” kick, we figured it would be nice to throw out a new topic:
Come Up with a mascot for Oklahoma City Community College
In all reality, this is probably more important than naming the NBA team, because at least the Sonics are…well…the Sonics. Oklahoma City Community College doesn’t have a mascot. I just has a few nicknames like “Harvard on May,” “O-Triple-C” or O-C-Cubed.” That’s really unfair to alumni like (gulp) myself who don’t want to say we went to Oklahoma City Community College, and would rather say we went to the “Home of the BLANKS.”
Find out 10 potential BLANKS after the jump.
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Category: NBA in OKC and Uncategorized.
Published by Patrick at March 4, 2008
Yeah. I must admit that I was pretty worried about the whole Ford Center Tax thing passing. I think the fears were due to two things:
1. Apparently all 27,000 people who voted “No!” tried to post a comment in defense of Wanda Jo Peltier.
2. I figured that I probably jinxed everything when I was actually quoted in a Seattle-Times article regarding the vote.
Anyway, now that the tax has passed, I am relieved. I am relieved that the whole NBA thing is pretty much out of our city’s hands, and that if Seattle doesn’t screw things up, that we will eventually have our own NBA team complete with our own cheerleaders freshening up in new-and-improved locker rooms. I am also relieved to know that Wando Jo will have to continue to spend $6 on every $600 she spends at Christie’s Toy Box or Sam’s Club or Los Tacos.
Category: NBA in OKC.
In the minutes of grueling research I do for this website, I ran across the YouTube video you can watch above. I have no idea who had the access to, or had the idea to upload a forty-year old commercial related to a local bond issue. That said, thank you “Silentsensei.”
For one, I learned that people who voted before my parents were eligible to cast ballots changed the course of this city. In Yessing ‘em all, our forefathers (and I guess mothers since this was post-suffrage) made it where I can partake in drinking water. I like water. They improved the sewer systems. I like not smelling feces. It also created the Northwest Expressway and expanded many major roads of this city from two to four lanes. I like not sitting in traffic. After seeing this commercial, I wondered what our fair city would look like if the residents of that time had No’ed ‘em all….probably a bit like the Oklahoma City portrayed in Saving Grace.
Oklahoma City’s next chance to leap forward comes March 4th. This campaign slogan is not as catchy or instructive as yes ‘em all, but Big League City does have some merit. As my public service to you, I will rattle off the talking points. Continue reading ‘Big League City?’
Category: Basketball in OKC, Mick Cornett, NBA in OKC, OKC Advertising, Oklahoma Politics and Sports.
Published by Patrick at February 29, 2008
Here is reason 15. It’s a pretty simple one: give this old lady something else to complain about.
Dear god, what’s the world coming to when the old lady who uses coupons at Walgreens and holds up the line is now able to freely go in front of the Oklahoma City Council and give her piece of mind on issues that are way over her head. Seriously, I was waiting for her to pull out old photos of her grandkids and then applaud the quality of portrait studio at the southside Sears, but I don’t know if she did, because I could only watch 30 seconds of the clip before falling asleep.
Anyway, old ladies like this Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton annoy me. It annoys me when they wreak havoc on our traffic system while trying to make brunch at the Cracker Barrel and annoys me when they want to ruin something great like the NBA coming to Oklahoma City.
It annoys me when weirdos try to screw it up, too.
So be cool! Piss them all off and vote “Yes!” on Tuesday!
Category: NBA in OKC.
Published by Patrick at February 26, 2008
Over at BigLeagueCity.com, they list roughly 12 reasons why we should all vote “YES!” on March 4th for Ford Center improvements. The list is pretty good, but it seems to be lacking some key points. At The Lost Ogle, we’ll be adding our own important items to the list…important items that our civic leaders may have missed.
Here is reason number 14:
You (hopefully) don’t share the same political views as Steven Hunt.
You see, Steven is the creator of MapsforMillionaires.org, a website that’s against the Ford Center tax. When Steven is not busy trying to get Oklahoma City to stay on par with Amarillo and Shreveport, he is posting pictures of Bob Barry Sr., Taj Grey and others holding a poster of Garret Morgan on his MySpace Page.
Yeah…this dude is just plain weird. He’s even weirder than Clark Matthews and the Justice League of Oklahoma. Hell, you’d probably be better off getting political advice from BikerFox than from Steven. That’s why you should do what Steve doesn’t want you to do and vote YES! on March 4th.
(At first, that was all I was going to say about Steven. But then I noticed all the pictures of him with big breasted women on his MySpace page. Women like this one and this one and this one. I’m not sure if he slips them pills, or maybe they really like Garret Morgan, but I’m kind of curious how he pulled that off. Anyone have any ideas?)
(Update! Steve replaced his Bob Barry Sr. pic with a nude picture of his girlfriend. To do everyone a favor, we removed the linkage.)
Category: NBA in OKC.
Published by Patrick at February 21, 2008
Over at BigLeagueCity.com, they list roughly 12 reasons why we should all vote “YES!” on March 4th for Ford Center improvements. The list is pretty good, but it seems to be lacking some key points. Over the next week and a half we’ll be adding our own important items to the list…important items that our civic leaders may have missed.
Tonight we reveal important reason number 13. It’s a pretty simple one:
13. Cheerleaders with guns
That’s worth a penny on every dollar…right?
Category: NBA in OKC.
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