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If you could pick a guy who’d be most likely to bite a horse, then why not Oklahoma City Blazers hockey coach Doug Sauter?   First, he’s a hockey coach. Second, he’s got a great mustache (goo goo ga joob!).   But, beyond all this, he bit the horse in the service of humanity.   […]

Nights in rural eastern Oklahoma have a lot of stars ” but it’s another thing to find stripes.   Sharon McConough knew something was odd at her rural Ranger Creek home near Fort Gibson Lake, something making her shepherd, Bizzy, bark like mad, according to a story in the Muskogee Phoenix.   Of course, the […]

In the spirit of the centennial year, Chicken-Fried News’ second favorite Oklahoma Web site has come up with a unique idea to celebrate the state’s 100th birthday. The folks at TheLostOgle.com decided a list of Oklahoma’s top 100 embarrassments was needed. We at CFN are glad we didn’t make the list.   At the top […]

Director Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones” film franchise has been stocked with great villains, like that creepy Belloq fellow with the burnt palm or that one guy who pulls the heart out of that other dude’s chest. Now add another name to that list.   Because of Tyler Nelson’s talents in the highly coveted realm of […]

Cancel your subscription to the Wall Street Journal, America.   Forget watching stocks and bonds.   When it comes to leading economic indicators, all you have to do is sidle up to a table in Sherri’s Diner, 704 S.W. 59th, in Oklahoma City.   Annie Cox and her eatery made the front page of The […]

The U.S. Air Force wants a bit of a word with two British chaps, who ” how do the Americans say it? ” got the hell out of Dodge after security caught them with a telephoto lens looking at military aircraft near Enid’s Vance Air Force Base.   As reported in The Enid News & […]

Whatever happened to that Oklahoma football fan accused of tearing the scrotum of the guy wearing a Longhorns shirt?   The Associated Press reports Allen Michael Beckett, a 53-year-old Sooner fan, will appear in court Oct. 4 ” only days before the Red River Rivalry between the Sooners and the Longhorns. Beckett, a federal auditor, […]

Adults love to remind kids they have no rights, even while they are teaching them about all the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. Administrators with Tulsa Public Schools seem to have taken the creed one step further by celebrating students’ constitutional void.   Dozens of students at Tulsa’s Rogers High School tried to exert […]

For the last few days of September, Okies can vie to get man’s best scratchers on, well, lottery “scratchers.” The Oklahoma Lottery is seeking the state’s most “photogenic” pooches to feature on a “Lucky Dog Scratcher” game piece hitting streets in December.   Residents can submit a photo of their dog to www.lottery.ok.gov through Sept. […]

And, to continue the whole doctorin’ theme “¦   One Kay County town kicked up centennial festivities a notch with its celebration of, as Oklahoman state correspondent Jim Etter reported recently, “one of the most unusual events during Oklahoma’s centennial”: “the horse liniment that made Newkirk famous.”   Whoa, Nellie.   Held Sept. 8 this […]