perfidy

Oklahoma has had some hard knocks. The Dust Bowl, the bombing in Oklahoma City, and the existential pain of being Oklahoma. To cheer them Oklahomians up, here are some new, funner(tm) slogans:

• Labor Omnia Vincit is not the same as Arbeit Macht Frei
• We have 42 distinct words for "dust"
• We're like the Canada of Texas!
• Home of the world famous Dustarium
• Like the Play, Only No Singing
• We're OK, you're NOT!
• No, I'm not from Muskogee. No one is.
• I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto
• As mentioned in The Grapes of Wrath
• Gateway to fuck-all
• Sooner does not mean premature ejaculation
• When you think of Oklahoma, please think of the rousing song “Oklahoma!” Do not think so much of the less rousing song “Trail of Tears.”
• Oooooooooh klahoma them ternaders sweepin' down the plains!
• Some people say we don't suck!
• We wish God would hurry up and call Oral Roberts home already
• The Forcible Resettlement State
• We're Texas Without A Coast
• The circus has been here twice!
• The Scoured by Dust State
• 'Sup, Okla-homie?
• Swallowing, and swallowed by, dust
• Tornado Alley. ‘Nuff Said.
• Indian Territory, now and forever. Well, for a little while.
• The Slow Drawl State
• Oklahoma - Even Texas Has To Make Fun of Somebody
• The Unassigned Lands State
• Oklahoma: Named After an Indian Tribe We Slaughtered
• The avenging sword of the lower Midwest
• Why would the white supremacists bomb us, godammit?
• GUSTY®
• Five Displaced Civilized Tribes, plus Rednecks
• More than just a catchy song
• The Frying Pan State
• From a Musical of the Same Name
• Bank Foreclosure capital of the universe since 1932!
• The Red Person State
• Oklahoma is OK. Really.
• We’re really an East Coast kind of state
• Come for the lethally violent weather, stay for the arid flat sameness of terrain
• They had to make us a state, just to avoid having a pan shaped hole in the map
• Where storm sirens are the signal to get lawn chairs, video camera.
• Oil and dust, it’s what for dinner
• How come the Navy never names ships after us anymore?