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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:13 PM
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Our Okla legislators are right on the job. We now have a State Vegetable!
The watermelon.
:eyes:
http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=125325
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:15 PM
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1. Well, our state fruit had to have a companion.
Instead of the strawberry, though, I think it would be more fitting if our state fruit were the lemon. It describes the type of representation we largely have in Oklahoma.

Defective.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:16 PM
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2. Congratulations.
It's a fruit though.
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IronScorpio5 Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:17 PM
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3. Your tax money at work.
only saving grace is your not from kansas.
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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:21 PM
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4. Watermelon is a vegitable, and...
global warming is a hoax! :eyes:
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:24 PM
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7. well, ketchup was a vegetable under Reagan. Or was it catsup?
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:38 PM
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15. You say to mah to, I say to may to.
Let's call the whole fucking thing off.
:D
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:21 PM
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5. Oh. I thought it was gonna be Inhofe.
:silly:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:22 PM
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6. We're saving him for the Official State Nut.
:rofl:
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IronScorpio5 Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:24 PM
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8. Who turned over the rock and let that guy out?
inhofe is the worst.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:42 PM
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26. Ooooh, that should at least make it to the House floor. nt
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:49 PM
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32. I thought he was the state fruit?
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:29 PM
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9. Oh, HELL yeah !!!
Now I can sleep at night.

:crazy:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:29 PM
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10. Sen. Inhofe accepts the honor with gracious thanks
But he was really hoping to be named State Nut.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:32 PM
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11. Watermelon is a fruit
I was sure the state vegetable would be corn. As in "the corn is as high as an elephants eye." As ascribed to Oklahoma by a couple of guys. From New York.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:34 PM
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13. I'm noit sure grains are vegetables either. But they must have a lot of spare time
over there in OKC.
:eyes:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:33 PM
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12. We already had a National Vegetable...
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:53 PM
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35. Touche
:spray::rofl:
Think if the keep spreading Bull Shit it will grow? I already have some suggestions for genetic modifications. :evilgrin:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:36 PM
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14. Amazing they didn't choose The Legistature
A watermelon is NOT a vegetable. People in a state with a big ag base should know that. Fire the dolts ;)
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trashcanistanista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:41 PM
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17. That's correct
watermelon is technically a fruit and corn is considered a vegetable.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:50 PM
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19. LOL corn is a grain
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:39 PM
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16. Technically, watermelon is a vegetable.
All fruits are vegetables, many vegetables are not fruits.

If it comes from a plant, i.e. vegetation, techincally it's vegetable.

Just so we're all on the same page.

:shrug:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:45 PM
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28. I suppose but common usage thinks they're fruit. And then there are tomatos
which seem to be sort of the opposite....argh.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:51 PM
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33. Tomatoes are fruit.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:57 PM
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37. That's what I meant.
They SEEM like vegetables...(and a lot of people think they are)
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:10 PM
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38. I was pretty sure that's what you meant.
:hi:
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:42 PM
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18. Hey, we're better than that in Colorado. A second state song!
Rocky Mountain High.
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IronScorpio5 Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:01 PM
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20. Ya know..with all thre crazy stuff going on...
this is that important to the state ??
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:02 PM
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21. Your legislators have way too much time on their hands.
Isn't watermelon a fruit??
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:06 PM
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22. I thought Oklahoma already had a state vegetable:
Sen. Inhofe! ;-)
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IronScorpio5 Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:11 PM
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23. I'm afraid to ask...what was the runner-up Vegetable ??
nt
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:23 PM
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24. Ha! We have a state fossil and a state grass and a state soil
but we don't seem to have a state vegetable out here in California (sniff!) I'll ask my assemblyperson to get to work on it - maybe it will distract him from his other half-baked ideas.

For a complete list see http://www.library.ca.gov/history/cahinsig.cfm#Heading18
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:43 PM
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27. State fossil AND state vegetable? Maybe someone could fill both slots? nt
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:47 PM
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29. Too bad Strom Thurmond is dead.. He could have moved to Oklahoma & been both
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 03:47 PM by SoCalDem
:)
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:49 PM
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31. Naw, too old. Our fossils are all less than 6000 years.
:rofl:
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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:31 PM
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25. my three week trip there was enough for me...
I did get to do a little protesting at OBU though, my sign read "How can you TELL a gay Okie?" in reference to their no gays allowed ridiculous ban...
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:48 PM
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30. Oops thought you wrote ORU at first. You meant in Shawnee right?
I was gonna say funny that you can find ORU students in every gay bar in Tulsa. :rofl:
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lies and propaganda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 03:52 AM
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39. at Oral Roberts... HA!!!
comedy gold!

But yes, I was in the metrolpolis of Shawnee. My dad works on Tinker.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:51 PM
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34. That's ok...here in Mass they voted on the State Cookie last year.
Solving the world's problems...one step at a time!
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:55 PM
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36. Couldn't Bush get past the intelligence requirement?
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 04:03 AM
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40. What, Jim Inhofe?
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