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

[RyanDavis]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 8:08pm

Just asking!

[jewishboy]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 8:42pm

Of course not. Why would you think that? It is about the time when Oklahoma was trying to become a state and the cowboys and the farmers had to get along and work together.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 8:47pm

Best thread ever.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:02pm

woooo boy. I am very glad that this wasn't a serious question. If it was, I would have absolutely no hope for the human race.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:04pm

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....

[RyanDavis]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:09pm

Dear god.. I was making fun of the "Is Roundabout Anti-Christian" and the "Is Broadway Cares anti-Semitic" threads... It's a joke!

New topic:

Why is irony only dead on this message board?

Discuss.

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:13pm

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

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:15pm

AMEN to that, Calvin. A very loud amen. Hence the caps. I don't understand why people just carelessly replace the word "coincidence" with "irony"...they're two completely different things.

[AmericaRight]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:25pm

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!

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:41pm

Ladies and gentlemen...

The rebirth of irony.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 11:15pm

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.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 11:27pm

OKLAHOMA celebrates a long gone era, in which men would bid for the right to eat a gal's...lunchbox. Whoever paid the most got to munch on her muffin... or whatever else was in there.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 11:29pm

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.

[Julian2]

Posted: 9/22/06 at 1:32pm

Other wonderful possibilities . . .

IS THIS THREAD ANTI-IRONY?!?!

IS ASHLEY BROWN ANTI-PUPPY?!?!

IS LACHIUSA ANTI-ICELANDER?!?!

WAS LEONARD BERNSTEIN ANTI-AMISH-EXTREMEISTS?!?!?!?!?!?

Updated On: 9/22/06 at 01:32 PM