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barelyawake wrote:I think we are all familiar with Oklahoma's tainted history, or perhaps your school didn't teach you of the massacres of the peaceful Cheyenne along the Washta River (sp to avoid filter). Obviously, you weren't prepared in one of the DC area's highly regarded school systems. And while lesser high schools focus solely on Salem's witch trails, my local school outlined the Tulsa witch trials as well. I hate to generalize about a people, but Oklahomans just seem unwilling to live in peace with outsiders (especially transplants from other states).

Meanwhile, a great deal of the Underground Railroad ran through DC. People came to DC seeking freedom, and were helped by generous locals. I'm certainly proud of DC's history in that regard. I think our longstanding progressive attitudes towards newcomers and our lack of homicidal weather are my two favorite things about DC.

payitforward wrote:I'm hoping we've entered the humor phase of this ridiculous thread.

barelyawake wrote:I think we are all familiar with Oklahoma's tainted history, or perhaps your school didn't teach you of the massacres of the peaceful Cheyenne along the Washta River (sp to avoid filter). Obviously, you weren't prepared in one of the DC area's highly regarded school systems. And while lesser high schools focus solely on Salem's witch trails, my local school outlined the Tulsa witch trials as well. I hate to generalize about a people, but Oklahomans just seem unwilling to live in peace with outsiders (especially transplants from other states).

Meanwhile, a great deal of the Underground Railroad ran through DC. People came to DC seeking freedom, and were helped by generous locals. I'm certainly proud of DC's history in that regard. I think our longstanding progressive attitudes towards newcomers and our lack of homicidal weather are my two favorite things about DC.

go'stags wrote:

payitforward wrote:I'm hoping we've entered the humor phase of this ridiculous thread.

I greatly enjoy your contributions to this board.

I don't think you should open this thread anymore. Please.

payitforward wrote:

go'stags wrote:

payitforward wrote:I'm hoping we've entered the humor phase of this ridiculous thread.

I greatly enjoy your contributions to this board.

I don't think you should open this thread anymore. Please.

Will you very kindly explain why? I.e. is it that you want to keep shining a light on the needle that just might be in the haystack? Or...?

I'd love to have Kevin Durant here. Who wouldn't? First, though, lets put our current house in order -- fire Ernie and start over.

LyricalRico wrote:Maybe it factors in, and maybe it doesn't but is OKC going to be able to max out both KD and Westbrook again? I remember an article where they were mistakenly allowed to sign both of them to 5 year max deals, even though the new CBA only allows you to have one player with that type of contract on your books. If they have to choose only one next time, then staying in OKC wouldn't have nearly the financial advantage for the other guy.

barelyawake wrote:Well, perhaps Custer wasn't an Oklahoman. And perhaps I did make-up that Tulsa had witch trials. But, that doesn't distract from the fact that Oklahoma had the largest, Asian internment camps during World War 2 (which was voted on by the Oklahoma populace and overwhelmingly accepted). In fact, the Oklahoma department of motor vehicles to this day still commemorates what they consider a shining moment in their history with a license plate option -- "Home of the largest Japanese internment camp." And many Oklahomans opt for that plate over the somewhat less offensive "Go Sooners."

Aw hell, PIF, you are right. Oklahoma is so terrible I don't need to invent history. I see that now. From now on, I will merely state the god's honest, awful truth about that miserable dustbowl.

(Jack, I'd like to buy a clue for two hundred).

barelyawake wrote:In fact, the Oklahoma department of motor vehicles to this day still commemorates what they consider a shining moment in their history with a license plate option -- "Home of the largest Japanese internment camp." And many Oklahomans opt for that plate over the somewhat less offensive "Go Sooners."

nate33 wrote:

barelyawake wrote:In fact, the Oklahoma department of motor vehicles to this day still commemorates what they consider a shining moment in their history with a license plate option -- "Home of the largest Japanese internment camp." And many Oklahomans opt for that plate over the somewhat less offensive "Go Sooners."

Is this sarcasm? Or are you seriously saying that this is still taking place today. I can't find any evidence of it. I'd appreciate a link.

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