Is OKLAHOMA anti-cowboy??!@???!?!

Just asking!

Best thread ever.

It told a story about twenty years before America was ready to hear it. It's the story of the death of the loner cowboy (and by extension the death of America's innocence) and the rise of society and the civilizing of the wilderness. In the sixties, that was the counter-culture and the birth of alternative filmmaking and theater.

But in 1943, during a war, that was pretty brave stuff to talk about. But Hammerstein told it through a boy-girl love story and made it totally palitable.

Brave, amazingly precient writing.

Oh, and the farmer and the cowboy should be friends....

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Irony got so tired of being mistaken for coincidence that he packed up his bags and left a long time ago.

Updated On: 9/21/06 at 09:13 PM

Oklahoma is a great show.

Thank the lord it was written during the day when shows told the truth about American History. Today, all we would hear is whinning about how the Indians where murdered and exploited by the white man to get the land to expand the territory.

Yeah, right!

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Why is irony only dead on this message board?

As I said before relative to AmericaRight's wonderful and very funny posts-----Some people here take everything so seriously. I really don't think that they actually read the threads before they start to fire off their own posts. Either that or they have no sense of humor.

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Or....

They remember what it was like (no irony here) when they were first developing a world view, or a "my own little world" view and there was no place like this where you could go to ask questions, no matter how bizarre and someone will try to answer them.

This isn't the end of irony.

It's the crossroads of irony and earnestness.

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