Oklahoma Is OK
Some of you who are not old and have not lived next door to Oklahoma all their lives may not know that their license plates used to say "Oklahoma Is OK". I thought that was their state motto, but app...
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NJRVer wrote:
What is the rivalry with OK and NB?
I saw a bumper sticker on a car once that said something like:
If NB was hell and I owned OK, I would rent out OK and live in hell.
Or something like that. Anybody down that way must know what I am referring to.
College football!
OU Sooners and University of Nebraska Cornhuskers. A football rivalry that lasted almost 100 years while the two schools were in the same conference.
As far as the “Oklahoma is OK” on the car tags, that started in 1967, and it was sort of a shout-out to the play “Oklahoma!” and its theme song, although the correct phrase from the song is Oklahoma, OK!”
If I remember right, the phrase on the car tags was eventually changed to “Oklahoma, OK!” to match the song, but then it disappeared altogether at some point and was replaced with “Native America”.
While “Oklahoma is OK” was never the state motto, it is or at least was the state slogan. The state motto is “Labor Omnia Vincit”, which means "Labour Conquers All Things" (yawn).
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