Oklahomans have a habit of adopting celebrities that stick around longer than just passing through on the cluttered I-40. I believe we call it the Oklahoma Celebrity Standard. It’s perk Miranda Lambert apparently enjoys.
Via the Tulsa World:
Former Oklahoma resident Miranda Lambert has something she wants to say:
“I’m still an honorary Oklahoman if ya’ll will have me,” the country music star said during a phone interview. “I was deemed an honorary Okie, and I don’t want to give up that title.”
According to discount Carrie Underwood’s testimony, Lambert was “deemed an honorary Okie” when she was married to country music star and dive bar enthusiast Blake Shelton. I think the only way to lose that title is to go play basketball in California.
Here’s more from the Tulsa World’s conversation:
I have actually property still in Oklahoma. It’s my dad’s baby, so it’s his hunting ranch. He keeps it nice and beautiful. I feel like we are neighboring states, and I was kindred spirits with the people there. Just salt of the earth. That’s kind of where I am from (in Lindale, Texas).
Thanks? Glad we could be part of your humbling experience.
If you want to be an honorary Okie, that’s fine; but, you’re going to have to prove it. Experience what all Oklahomans have to deal with for one year. Have Mike Morgan’s tie scream at you about a tornado. Freak out at the Bell Isle Walmart during an impending ice-pocalypse. Be constantly disappointed in Kevin Stitt. Then, and only then, will I call you a true Okie.
Does that make Stitt the new Daily Disappointment? I did drop the paper, y’know
There can be more than one daily disappointment. I welcome Gov. Stitt to the category. It’s an appellation that he richly deserves.
Well she shouldn’t have changed her words to Little Red Wagon. That sort of upset me. I am a true Okie.
I’d take her over Slappy Shelton any day of the week.
Team Miranda!
Change planes in Oklahoma makes you an Oklahoman according to local talking heads on the news.
They do sometimes get dizzy going for a local spin.
I’ve been living in this idiotic state for over 20 years…. and I don’t even want it to be a rumored that I’m an Okie…
Then move your ass somewhere else. I can’t imagine living some place I hated for 20 years. Get off your lazy ass and do something about it.
Exactly
Ah yes – the old “love it or leave it” mentality. Where everything in Oklahoma is perfect, just like God intended.
Reality check: we are still a Bottom Ten state in just about everything good, with no evidence of moving in Gov. Stitt’s “top ten” direction. Mostly we are only “top ten” in everything bad.
Clearly, some of us like it that way. But ya better not be complaining about it – or worse, trying to do anything about it.
Why should WE change? Let the malcontents learn to deal with it happily, or pack their bags for the promised land of …. Texas!
Do I have it right, SS?
The thing is; it doesn’t really sound like Fozzy is trying to do anything about it.
Wow – that was a lot….let’s take it one at a time.
Your first paragraph: ‘love it or leave it’. That’s not what Sarcoostic Sinner suggested. ‘…Oklahoma is perfect, just like God intended’. I don’t think that’s what SS was saying there either. Yet, your paragraph seems to be a parody of SS’s comment. You really missed the point on that one. If you don’t know what it is, that’s okay. Most of the readership on this site don’t have a very high level of reading comprehension.
Your second paragraph: the Top Ten/Bottom Ten paragraph. There’s not much to say here….you use terms like good and bad. A category you define as bad may be defined as something else for another person. Too much subjectivity. It basically became a useless paragraph.
Your third paragraph: ‘some of us like it that way, but you better not complain’. This just sounds like the ramblings of a grumpy, old man. My 73-year old father visited this weekend, and this is the kind of wack-a-doodle nonsense he was spewing for the last three days.
Your fourth paragraph: ‘why should WE change’. Again, not very eloquently, but that’s exactly what SS is saying. Make a change for the better. If your definition of the promise land is Texas, then go for it! Everybody has a different idea of the promise land. My definition is anywhere that I’ll be happy (and I can be happy pretty much anywhere…it’s all a state of mind).
I don’t think he/she said it very eloquently, but my interpretation of SS is ‘do what you can to improve your situation’. Don’t just gripe.
If you’re in a situation you describe as ‘idiotic’, and you’ve been there for 20 years…then, who’s the idiot? Sarcoostic Sinner? Nope. Fozzy? Probably.
I was going to start my comment by saying, “I wish I knew who this person is” but then realized I could do a bit of online research and find out easily enough.
Then I thought: Nah, I don’t give a shit.
Don’t let Mayor David Holt find out about this. He’ll name a street for her somewhere downtown like he did for the other “honorary” Oklahomans, Kings of Leon.
#OklahomaCelebrityStandard
Well, bless her heart
I’ll take her as an honorary Okie any day over Gwen Stefani who apparently was woman enough to steal her man.
Miranda cheated on Blake multiple times, it’s widely known. He finally had had enough and divorced her. He and Gwen didn’t get together until after he and Miranda divorced. Blake loves Oklahoma and does a lot for it.
Well she is damn sure more talented than Flake. And way better looking. If she wants a piece, I say give it to her. We could do worse (cough cough Rascal Flatts cough).