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Taking a break from smiling, waving and luring Internet child predators to a dank cell, Oklahoma’s reigning Miss America Lauren Nelson just earned a loyal grade-school fan base by appearing on the Jan. 17 broadcast of Fox’s hit game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”   Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, the show usually […]

John Cleese, a member of the famous “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” is getting divorced. Why should this be of interest to Chicken-Fried News readers? Just keep reading.   One of the founding members of Monty Python, Cleese might be the most famous British comedian ever. The late Sixties and early Seventies British television show was […]

Oh, there’s definitely something rising in Oklahoma, but it’s certainly not a for-hire Jimmy Webb song. No, it’s the Q Score of Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, who’s been making quite the national media rounds lately to promote his million-pound march.   Cornett plugged the www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com Web site ” aimed to convince Oklahoma Cityans to […]

Three teenage boys on skateboards in Purcell had to grease a few palms ” and shoes, and blacktop and sidewalks ” to do it, but they managed to acquire some slick notoriety around the small town recently.   According to a recent story in The Purcell Register, the boys were caught on tape skateboarding around […]

The staff members at CFN love it when the subjects of our rants practically write the script for us. What could be better than a bank robbery committed by a man named Robber?   The Tulsa World reported that Robber Earl Smith, 55, was charged recently with the Dec. 27, 2007, robbery of a Bank […]

Not even two full days into the new year, and we had our first report of a man being stabbed with a pork chop bone for 2008.   According to an Associated Press report, a food fight turned quite literal in Ardmore when one man allegedly took the skeletal remains of an assumably delicious piece […]

CFN couldn’t help but notice Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett trying to put our fair city on a diet. As a New Year’s resolution, Cornett reportedly challenged residents to lose a few pounds (say 1,000,000), according to The Associated Press.   “The message of this obesity initiative is that we’ve got to watch what we […]

The Library of Congress gave Oklahoma a late birthday gift recently: It inducted the film version of the musical Okies either love or love to hate into the National Film Registry.   Yup, pore “Oklahoma!” isn’t daid.   The 1955 flick featuring Gordon McRae ” and corn as high as an elephant’s eye ” joined […]

Just in case you can’t go through a year in Oklahoma without hearing, reading or smelling something else about Oklahoma City federal building bomber Timothy McVeigh, there is yet more.   According to a recent story in The Oklahoman, McVeigh was quite the joker, laughing loudly during discussions with his attorneys and chortling about a […]

Hell hath no fury like an Italian scorned. As previously reported in CFN, pizzeria proprietor Danny Falcone initially told Edmond residents to fuggedaboutit when a site plan allowing an Italian flag awning was turned down last October by the city’s Planning Commission.   In order to use the same awning style with the green, white […]