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Lost Ogle Mailbag: Winter Weather Edition

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Well, it finally happened.

Saturday night, I decided to brave the roads and hang out with some friends for a birthday party.  The party was only 10 minutes from home, so I figured I’d be okay.

From my house, I ventured to 1-44 & Penn and merged onto the highway.  A half-minute later, I found myself doing a 360 across three lanes of traffic, slow-lane to fast-lane, and directly headed towards a snow-cushioned concrete retaining wall.  During this interesting moment, I thought two things:

  1. I’m about to get in my first wreck
  2. I hope another car doesn’t hit me

Unfortunately, I got in my first wreck.  Fortunately, all the cars behind me were able to dodge my vehicle as it hung sideways into the left lane of I-44.  Also, the grill guard on the front of my (rear-wheel drive) SUV prevented “major” damage, so I was able to drive off the highway to the shoulder, and eventually back home.

Anyway, the reason I’m sharing this scary (for me) story is because I now know why so many people avoid the roads in this crazy winter weather.  And maybe that helps explain why our email inbox was a little bit more full than normal.  Check out a winter-edition of The Lost Ogle mailbag after jump.

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Bob Mills Goes Where Even The Mathis Brothers Haven’t

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

I was flipping through the premium channels on Cox digital cable the other day totally not looking for porn when I stumbled on the above, which is a photo of the fact that there are two (two!) different channels dedicated to nothing but Bob Mills Furniture (Bob Mills Furniture!). I find this to be, well, pretty strange (exclamation in parentheses!). Also, anyone notice that he’s gone back to wearing the sweaters?

Anyway, this got me wondering which other local celebrities deserve their own channels or, at least, their own television shows. After the jump, some ideas:

(Editor’s Note: Yep, this is a Tony (Tony!) post.  I think he used to write for this site…a lot.)

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Gary England Day is an excuse to party…

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

This past weekend, a Lost Ogle reader got trapped at America’s Pub in Bricktown. To prove it, they sent us the following picture of the screen where you can send text messages.  We consider it a cry for help.

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Actually, this is a pretty cool. It’s comforting to know that the masses were out celebrating Gary England Day. It’s also good to know that Kristin Gilpin probably got a kiss, and that Katrice’s boobs looked amazing.  The reader mentioned that the phrase “Clark Matthews cheats at checkers,” also appeared on the big screen, but we don’t have any photo proof of that.

That being said, I think it’s disturbing that this photo was taken at America’s Pub in Bricktown.  I feel sorry for the guy who was trapped there.  Seriously, that place is a Douche Bag paradise. Go there on any Friday or Saturday night and you’ll see enough Affliction shirts and embroidered eagle wings to cause a seizure. Granted, that also means there are plenty of dumb hot chicks with big breasts and sun dresses in attendance, but it’s hard for me to care about that when I spend my typical evening being hand-fed lush grapes by European fashion models.

Anyway, maybe next year some bar will have an official Gary England Day party.  I nominate either TapWerks, Nite Trips or Edna’s.  And as long as the drinks are free, I’ll be there.

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Jonathan Conder is Bitchin’…

Friday, May 1st, 2009

For some reason, Jonathan Conder always looks a bit nervous when he gives the weather report.  We always figured this was due to the fact that he works for Mike Morgan.  We didn’t know it was probably because he likes to blurt out the occasional “bitch” while on the air:

I’ll tell you what, I kind of like having a weatherman who drops the occasional cuss word.  For some reason, “Take f*cking cover now you mother f*ckers!!!” has a much more urgent feel to it than “seek tornado precautions.”

That’s why I like Gary England.  On Twitter, he refers to dangerous thunderstorms as “Hooters.” That totally beats the juvenile words used by other weathermen to describe severe storms .  For example, we’ve heard that Mike Morgan calls them “jugs”, Rick Mitchell calls them “knockers,” and Ross Dixon calls them “Rasmussens.”  We’ve also heard that Clark Matthews calls them “guns.” We have no clue where that came from.

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Steve Lackmeyer needs to lay off the weathermen…

Friday, April 10th, 2009

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Last week – after publishing Mike Morgan’s silly email – Steve Lackmeyer asked some of our local TV meteorologists some “hardball” questions related to severe weather coverage:

Having some final thoughts about this weekend’s discussion. Why not throw some hardball questions not just at Mike Morgan, but also at Rick Mitchell, Gary England and Brady Brus?

Give Mike credit for at least firing back. Now let’s see if the others do as well. Maybe we can understand them better. Or maybe they’ll end up with a better understanding of their viewers’ concerns.

Not surprisingly, none of the weatherman Steve listed responded to his request.  He did, however, get a response from KOKH morning weatherman Jon Slater.   What’s funny about Jon’s email is that he didn’t even try to answer any of Steve’s questions.  He just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that some people think he was fired from his last job in Tulsa.

I was pointed to one of your blogs on weather from a friend of mine the other day.  For the most part harmless folks talking about stuff.  I do have a question for you though. Do you moderate these things at all? I mean everyone has their own thoughts about things…I get that….but when folks start making statements about other people that can’t be verified by you then what’s the point of this?  Where is the responsibility here?  Can I write anything I want and defame folks and you just let it go through? I’m not talking about opinions, I’m talking about facts.

Example….Some person going by the name “weather watcher”…says I was let go from FOX 23 in Tulsa for grandstanding.  First off I have been doing TV weather for over 21 years now and have never been laid off or fired from any TV station.  I’m sure my time is coming one of these days but so far I’m sliding by.  Second, I don’t even know what grandstanding is?  Yes, I forecast the weather the way I think it’s going to play out.  That’s my job.  Thirdly, he says weathercasters with seals have meteorology degrees.  That’s another false statement.  The AMS seal is something you can get without actually having a degreee in meteorology.  In fact several TV weather folks right here in OKC have seals but do NOT have degrees in meteorology.  I’m not here to out anyone but I would like you to set my record straight.  Obviously that “weather watcher” person has no idea what they are talking about and that post should be removed.

Thanks, Jon Slater…

I don’t know about you, but it has to be pretty deflating to ask some of Oklahoma’s finest meteorologists some hardball questions and then to only get a reply from a guy who looks like a grown up version of the kid from Jerry McGuire.  It’s probably a lot like creating a profile at Match.com and only getting “winks” from ugly people.

Anyway, maybe this fiasco will teach Steve Lackmeyer a lesson.  The lesson would be to leave the weatherman reporting to us, and instead focus his dangerous obsessions on more important things like which hot girls in the Montgomery are single, what do they drink for happy hour, and are they actively using Twitter.

Posted in Oklahoma City Weather, weather | 12 Comments »

Gary England is whacking it…

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

I’m not sure what Gary is whacking, but maybe this explains why he was so off on his forecast during the spring blizzard.  Also, did you know that each time Gary whacks it that he also kills a kitten?  Need proof?  Just ask Rusty Surrette.

Posted in Gary England, Oklahoma City Weather, Unusual, weather | 7 Comments »

State of Emergency Winter Blast Ice Storm 2009

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Well, it looks like we are in the middle of another ice storm.  If the sheet of ice on your porch steps or the overturned trucks on the highway didn’t clue you in to this, don’t be alarmed, our local media will do everything possible to over hype this and sensationalize this event.  Things like:

• Sending every assignment reporter available to a bridge or overpass to provide live coverage of this “once in a lifetime” weather event.  Am I the only one hoping that one of them slips and falls?

• Having an anchor go to an Ace Hardware to report that they are out of generators and ice melt.

• Allowing anybody or anything to submit a “weather related closing” to the scrolling ticker thing at the bottom of the screen.  Seriously, this little thing has gotten way out of hand.  Our local networks need to come together and institute some universal standards for it immediately.  With the advent of the “internet” and “telephone,” it’s not really needed.  Plus, other than Clark Matthews, who really needs to know that Dean’s School of Dance is closed or that the classes are canceled at Dragon Kim’s Tae Kwon Do.

What makes the hype so frustrating, is that I kind of like these ice storms.  That is unless I lose power for three days and my neighbor’s tree slams through my fence. Hell, even with the damage I’d take them over severe weather.  When has a severe thunderstorm ever caused your work to send you home early to play online poker and watch icicles form on Gan Matthews beard???  When was the last time that a steady stream of rain guaranteed that you could come into work late the next day and maybe even get away with wearing jeans and a hat???  My guess would be never.

Hell, if our news channels were smart they would get their reporters off the highway overpasses and into the homes of people like you and me.  You know, the people who are enjoying and abusing the overreaction to all the hype that they created.  You know, the smart ones.

Anyway, when you get drunk tonight because you don’t have to be at work until 10:00am tomorrow, take a little sip for me.  Also, say a litte prayer to Gary England.  Maybe he’ll make sure that it’s nice and pretty for the Super Bowl party this Sunday.

Posted in Oklahoma City Media, weather | 12 Comments »