A friend of mine on a "social networking site" (as does Robie Childers, we'll call it "My Face"), pondered last Saturday whether paint had made it to Oklahoma by the time of the throwback helmets the Sooners were wearing while flopping like beached jellyfish against the Texas Tech Sand Aggies. Seeing the sarcasm equivalent of single coverage on Andre Johnson fall into my lap, I went for the quick six. It helped that I was sitting in a completely boring continuing legal education class and needed some way to stay awake. Normally I'd consider it a breach of the Daily Affirmations rules to post something that I wrote elsehere, but I do feel that you folks need some schooling on Oklahoma Sooner traditions. So here goes:
Other than war paint and whitewash, the first recorded use of paint in Oklahoma was 1978, when a truck carrying a shipment of Glidden flat red oveturned and stained several nearby covered wagons. The locals were mesmerized, chanting "oombagay" which means "that reminds me of the hill behind my meth lab" in the native Oklahoman. A citizen posse was formed to petition the Bootlegger's Boy (B. Switzer) to add this color to the Sooners' traditional headdress. The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History stages re-enactments of this event on alternate Thursdays, or when that day's quota of cousins have finished their weddings.
Let me know if I can answer any other questions you may have.
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