[TAG] Work In Progress

[Kat Tanaka]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:41:10AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> [...]  Oklahoma City is the only state capital that's still
> producing oil.  I'd seen the derricks near the airport.  A mini Middle
> East in the US.

OK City may be the only state *capital*, but you're aware that other 
cities (outside of Texas) have working oil production? El Segundo (just 
south of LAX).
 

> All the Oklahomans I'd met previously had a flat accent close to
> Midwestern.  So I was surprised to call the hotel and hear a Southern
> drawl.  And then our host was saying "y'all" right and left.  Half the
> locals were speaking Southernese, the other half General American.  I
> asked what's up with that.  He said, "The Okies talk Southern; the
> transplants don't."  So there you go.

Remember that Oklahoma is where the Okies came from...and that it's *just* 
north of Texas.

 
> Breakfast was eggs, ham/bacon/sausage, a biscuit with gravy, a plain
> biscuit, and hash browns/tater tots.  Half the meal was grains or
> potatoes.  I was almost desperate for fiber -- an apple or banana,
> please! -- but the closest was orange juice.  Dinner was heavy on
> steak and ribs.  This is cowboy country, and there were plenty of
> cowboy hats.  I could barely remember from childhood that this was
> what all American food was like before the ethnic restaurants took
> over.  

Er...surely when thee and me were little, if you were on the West Coast 
like I was, you remember hippie-leftover cafes?


> The hotel has a country bar
> and a disco bar.  A bar in a hotel sounds funny when there are three
> gay bars within two blocks, until you realize that many of the guests
> come from surrounding states with no gay bars within a hundred miles
> of them.

Er...why does a bar in a hotel sound funny? For some sufficiently high 
value of "most", hotels have bars, motels generally don't.  -ish.

 
Ah, America...all these variations.

Kat
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