I like it when someone sings "lookin for love" at karaoke (yeah I sing it too) and they have that line "oh you, lookin for love". I always shout out "OU" during that part. It goes over real well down here as you may imagine.
What's the origin of your board handle?
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I like it when someone sings "lookin for love" at karaoke (yeah I sing it too) and they have that line "oh you, lookin for love". I always shout out "OU" during that part. It goes over real well down here as you may imagine.
Johnny Lee....Really, that's to easy. You need to work on some Slim Whitman songs....HA!
I've always assumed yours was a reference to one of my favorite muscle cars, the Buick GSX from the seventies.
The only Buick anything I've ever liked.
A friend of mine had one. He actually had short pieces of heavy logging chain attached from the engine to the frame to keep it from busting motor mounts.
He did a dyno on it...800+ HP.
He scared me in it too.
I am Chickasaw (SE Okla tribe) but grew up in SW Oklahoma with the Kiowa's, Comanche's, Apache's, Wichita's and others. When I would hang out with my native friends, their parents would always ask what tribe I was. About 90% of the time when I'd say Chickasaw, they would ask me if I was lost. I was Native Sooner on this board for years but forgot my password one day and had already closed the email account to send a reset to. So here I am... lost... lol!
I lived in Lawton once upon a time...had some Comanche friends.
Went to a Powwow in Anadarko one weekend with them, they made me an honorary Comanche...got that going for me.
they made me an honorary Comanche...got that going for me.
That and a 30 pack means you can drink with us any time! haha!
When my son attended OU he worked at Harold's,
so that's how I got mine. Plus I loved the discounts
he got on clothes.
so that's how I got mine. Plus I loved the discounts
he got on clothes.
In the scandal days, anyone with $200 could become a card carrying Kiowa. Well before casinos.
Arkansas Colored, Oklahoma was in southern Chickasaw country. My paternal great grandfather had a hand in it's founding. The A C post office closed in 1912.
The only Nations I can qualify for membership in is Binay, Lumbee and Fort Sill Apache. Fort Sill Apache numbers only about 600. It was the Fort Sill Apache who complained about Geronimo code name for the Bin Laden raid. Geronimo was no part Fort Sill Apache. Fort Sill Apache requires at least 1/8 Indigenous blood from any Nation for membership. I bet a stone white guy could qualify for Binay and Lumbee.
Arkansas Colored, Oklahoma was in southern Chickasaw country. My paternal great grandfather had a hand in it's founding. The A C post office closed in 1912.
The only Nations I can qualify for membership in is Binay, Lumbee and Fort Sill Apache. Fort Sill Apache numbers only about 600. It was the Fort Sill Apache who complained about Geronimo code name for the Bin Laden raid. Geronimo was no part Fort Sill Apache. Fort Sill Apache requires at least 1/8 Indigenous blood from any Nation for membership. I bet a stone white guy could qualify for Binay and Lumbee.
Geronimo was a fascinating fellow. Married 9 times.
Got sideways with the Mexicans and killed a bunch of them. That surprised me...thought all of his rage would have been on whitey.
As well it should have been too.
Died tragically too.
Fell off a horse, was out in the elements for a long time before he was discovered and died of pneumonia. (after all the other perils he survived)
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I have seen well over 200...iasooner. I was in one in 2001 near Edgar NE in the land of corn. Long story.
That's very impressive. Do you have any problems getting "insured up" ? Post some other pics at your leisure.
No have learn to circumnavigate the jumbo hail...only a few times have I been clobbered....will try and get some for you iasooner.
I never chased one...but I did dodge two of them. June 8th, 1974, several hit the Tulsa area, bad night, death, destruction, all that.
Then the next year, December 5th, 1975, had an F4 hit east Tulsa. Same deal, death, destruction.
Those things are bad ass.
Yeah the spring of 74 was wild; everything in Tulsa happened after dark & the one in Dec 75 was in broad daylight a few miles east of where I was working at the time, the Napa Dist Center just east of 11th & Sheridan. Very surreal and unusually warm Dec day.
Leave it to Fitty to come up with the best thread since sockless included her first picture .
On the old board, don't remember for sure what my screen name was.
It was an F-3 that touched down in East Tulsa near the intersection of 21st St & 129th E. Ave. About a block from my house. I was playing in a Sophomore Bball game at Memorial HS when it hit, long before the interweb and cell phones. It basically formed right over that intersection.
We were told it hit that area with a lot of damage but all roads to my neighborhood were cut off and phone lines were down. I was forced to spend the night with a teammate who lived farther East. Spent the entire night not knowing if my family was OK and if my house was still there.
Thankfully, early the next AM I learned that there was no damage to our house and family was safe. I was able to get home that morning and was able to walk around what "used" to be a large apartment complex and Plaza 3 movie theater/strip mall. Was amazed no one was killed. The 1974 tornado hit about 2 miles away.
As a kid, we used to almost "wish" for the excitement of a tornado. The "theory" was Tulsa had never had one because we were in valley. Obviously, that has been proven to be false many times. And after the longest night of my short life on 12.5.75, I have had MORE than a healthy respect for tornadoes. Thanks to the expertise and knowledge of a close friend at the NWS in Tulsa, I've also learned a great deal about them and chased a few. Awe inspiring.
On the old board, don't remember for sure what my screen name was.
It was an F-3 that touched down in East Tulsa near the intersection of 21st St & 129th E. Ave. About a block from my house. I was playing in a Sophomore Bball game at Memorial HS when it hit, long before the interweb and cell phones. It basically formed right over that intersection.
We were told it hit that area with a lot of damage but all roads to my neighborhood were cut off and phone lines were down. I was forced to spend the night with a teammate who lived farther East. Spent the entire night not knowing if my family was OK and if my house was still there.
Thankfully, early the next AM I learned that there was no damage to our house and family was safe. I was able to get home that morning and was able to walk around what "used" to be a large apartment complex and Plaza 3 movie theater/strip mall. Was amazed no one was killed. The 1974 tornado hit about 2 miles away.
As a kid, we used to almost "wish" for the excitement of a tornado. The "theory" was Tulsa had never had one because we were in valley. Obviously, that has been proven to be false many times. And after the longest night of my short life on 12.5.75, I have had MORE than a healthy respect for tornadoes. Thanks to the expertise and knowledge of a close friend at the NWS in Tulsa, I've also learned a great deal about them and chased a few. Awe inspiring.
Leave it to Fitty to come up with the best thread since sockless included her first picture .
On the old board, don't remember for sure what my screen name was.
It was an F-3 that touched down in East Tulsa near the intersection of 21st St & 129th E. Ave. About a block from my house. I was playing in a Sophomore Bball game at Memorial HS when it hit, long before the interweb and cell phones. It basically formed right over that intersection.
We were told it hit that area with a lot of damage but all roads to my neighborhood were cut off and phone lines were down. I was forced to spend the night with a teammate who lived farther East. Spent the entire night not knowing if my family was OK and if my house was still there.
Thankfully, early the next AM I learned that there was no damage to our house and family was safe. I was able to get home that morning and was able to walk around what "used" to be a large apartment complex and Plaza 3 movie theater/strip mall. Was amazed no one was killed. The 1974 tornado hit about 2 miles away.
As a kid, we used to almost "wish" for the excitement of a tornado. The "theory" was Tulsa had never had one because we were in valley. Obviously, that has been proven to be false many times. And after the longest night of my short life on 12.5.75, I have had MORE than a healthy respect for tornadoes. Thanks to the expertise and knowledge of a close friend at the NWS in Tulsa, I've also learned a great deal about them and chased a few. Awe inspiring.
I stand corrected ST, funny, I thought there were a couple of casualties and the 'nado was F4...
Starting to know how Dr. Ben is feeling about now...HA!
I had a gal friend that lost her apartment in the complex you mentioned.
Fortunately, she was with me at my place in the 31st and Mingo area. I saved her life...just kidding, sort of.
I stand corrected ST, funny, I thought there were a couple of casualties and the 'nado was F4...
Starting to know how Dr. Ben is feeling about now...HA!
I had a gal friend that lost her apartment in the complex you mentioned.
Fortunately, she was with me at my place in the 31st and Mingo area. I saved her life...just kidding, sort of.
You were probably thinking of the '74 tornado. A few deaths in that one if I recall correctly. For obvious reasons, Dec '75 made quite an impression on me.
Hopefully, your civic heroism was properly rewarded.
Tornado alley has them of all shapes and sizes, but they are frequent. On my grandmother's 160 acre farm SW of Sentinel, I was in the cellar when we came up to see (different times):
---the barn missing
---the front porch missing (ten feet from the cellar) along with about twenty peach trees
---the garage missing (about twenty-five yards from the cellar
---the chicken house missing
Eventually, she moved into town at which time there must have been a slightly larger tornado that ripped up all of the cottonwood trees on the creek, leaving a fifty-foot wide treeless swath on what had been solid trees.
In town, I had the windows suddenly pop out of the house. I went outside to see what was happening and watched a little whirlwind about a foot wide at the base and ten feet wide at the top (about twenty feet up) dancing down the middle of an asphalt street with a clear blue sky with zero clouds.
---the barn missing
---the front porch missing (ten feet from the cellar) along with about twenty peach trees
---the garage missing (about twenty-five yards from the cellar
---the chicken house missing
Eventually, she moved into town at which time there must have been a slightly larger tornado that ripped up all of the cottonwood trees on the creek, leaving a fifty-foot wide treeless swath on what had been solid trees.
In town, I had the windows suddenly pop out of the house. I went outside to see what was happening and watched a little whirlwind about a foot wide at the base and ten feet wide at the top (about twenty feet up) dancing down the middle of an asphalt street with a clear blue sky with zero clouds.
I was in the one that creamed Bruce's in Catoosa....like a couple mins. behind it. Then a few years later they built the Cingular/AT&T Call Center on those hallowed grounds...where I worked for several years.
Just a slight correction. AT&T was built just west of Bruce's. The truck stop has been rebuilt on the exact location. If you ever get back to Catoosa check out all the tornado photo's on the truck stop walls....
Yes correct...but the Call Center was later built in the path of the strong F3 tornado.
