From the "If I drank I could win a bar bet with" department

Helping my son with homework tonight and the question was name the three largest cities in Oklahoma by population and land mass. We looked up population and it was Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Norman. By land mass it is Oklahoma City, Norman and Tulsa. He wants one answer not two so I look up population per square mile.  That muddles things up even more as it is Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Norman.

So if you ever need the answer to the largest city in Oklahoma, you can give one of three answers and be right!

Thor in Oklahoma

CAPTAIN COMICS: Mighty Thor returns | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA: "

And with 'Thor' No. 1 shipping July 5, he's back -- in Oklahoma. How? Why? I asked editor Warren Simons, who answered obliquely, 'There is a great line in the first issue that addresses Ragnarok and its role in Norse mythology: 'The cycle of Ragnarok was what happened to you, it's not who you are.''"
As to the location, there are those who argue the Vikings made it as far as Oklahoma, and left rune stones there (Google it, if you don't believe me). Which is one key difference from the old series, that the Norse Gods will be hanging out a hammer's throw from Muskogee, and interacting with "flyover land" mortals on a regular basis.

As a fan of comics when I was a kid and in teens and 20's I can not believe that we are actually getting a comic book star here in Oklahoma. I wonder where the guy will hang out. Maybe he can strike the Belvidere with his hammer and bring it back to its original state (just joking guys).

One exception: Thor's outfit has been altered a bit, thanks to writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Olivier Coipel. Simons describes the new look as "warrior's garb -- something that a warrior might wear into battle."

Wow, JMS as a writer. 'Loved Babylon 5' so I am sure it will be good. May have to go find the issue someplace.

But the thunder will still be there. And it's about time -- comics fans have missed our favorite Thunder God, and the Oklahoma farmers can use the rain!

Well, the author of the article should look into the current situation. We need the Thunder God to stop the rain. I am about ready to build an ark in my back yard. Statistics in OK have been kept since the 1890s, and they say that this past June was the coolest on record. That is because we had like 29 days of rain.

FOXNews.com - Oklahoma Convenience Stores Terrorized by Diaper Flasher - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

FOXNews.com - Oklahoma Convenience Stores Terrorized by Diaper Flasher - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"TULSA, Okla. — A man who's flashed several Tulsa, Okla., convenience store clerks wearing only a diaper has struck again.
Authorities said the man made his fourth appearance last week striking a Broken Arrow, Okla., gas station, FOX affiliate, KOKI-TV reports.
“You can't help but laugh about a man wearing a diaper in public, but the key part is he's exposing himself,” Corp. Mark Mears of the Tulsa Police Department told KOKI-TV.
Store clerk Kyle Holdman told the station that his friend was working the night of the flasher's latest appearance.
'He was just kind of like creeped out by it,' Holdman told KOKI-TV. 'The guy went into the bathroom and came back in a diaper. He told him he needed to go find somewhere else to do that.”"

Why do we always make the headlines for stupid stuff. I mean, Tulsa is digging up a huge time capsule this weekend and do you hear about that on the news. A 1957 Belvedere is a better story than a man in a diaper I would think!

Real Life 'Cars'

When you saw the movie 'Cars' did you think it was just a cute story? I hope this changes your mind:

KOTV.com - The News On 6: "MIAMI, Okla. (AP) _ The Riviera Courts Motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care.

Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma.

Next door, soybean farmers Richard and Rosemary Woolard watch the place deteriorate from their front porch.

``Been a lot of changes in this old county,'' 77-year-old Richard Woolard says plainly.

The Riviera Courts is among hundreds of mom-and-pop motels that met their demise along the ribbon of Route 66 as America's interstate system siphoned traffic off the Mother Road onto a four-lane, divided highway called progress.

In Oklahoma, with more Route 66 miles than any of the eight states it flows through, many motels are derelict or abandoned, used as junk yards, makeshift car lots and flophouses."

I have driven these back roads through the small towns. It is just a shame that the have so many problems. In an ideal world it would be OK to have the big box hotels and the little ones. The mom and pop restaurants and the fast food joints. It is not a perfect world however. In return, a part of history is being eliminated. And we are that much the poorer for it.

OK State Quarter...

KOTV.com - The News On 6

Governor Brad Henry said Monday that Oklahomans who voted on the design of the quarter chose one that depicts the scissor-tailed flycatcher and the Gaillardia pulchella plant, commonly known as the Indian blanket.

They did not like my idea. I thought a good representation of the state would be to duck tape to dimes and a nickel together.

From the I Never Check the Facts Department

Tulsa the state capital??? - FOX23 News: "Yvonna Coulter found the card listing the state tree as the redbud, state bird as the scissortailed flycatcher, state animal the buffalo and the state capital - as Tulsa."

Kind of makes you wonder about the quality control that companies put in to their products, doesn't it?