Chicken-Fried News

Either the DirecTV call center in Tulsa needs better telephone lines, or the intensive customer service training at the center is getting too intense.   According to a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a husband and wife in Savage, Minn., are suing after an incident last fall when having satellite television installed in their […]

At 106, Frank Buckles is the youngest of three known survivors left of the 4.7 million who enlisted in the Great War ” World War I ” to make the world “safe for democracy,” according to The Associated Press.   And he might not have made it in if it weren’t for a not-too-choosy recruiter […]

New York Times travel section contributor Matt Gross’ description of country café veggies (“iceberg salads with toupees of flavorless yellow cheese” ” oh, yum!) might be what the rest of the world considers typical Okie options of the vegetable variety, but Gross dug deeper: In his July 4 “Frugal Traveler” NYT column, he road tripped […]

Oklahoma Cityans can “eat fresh” no more at the corner of N.W. 63rd Street and N. Western Avenue, as the Subway there has closed its doors. The franchisee of the sandwich shop watched as the Chesapeake Energy Corp. grew around him, but long had refused to give up his lease.   Eventually, money talks, and […]

Watch out for falling vows! Shoppers of the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 7800 Northwest Expressway might notice a little something unusual going on in the aisles on Saturday ” not to mention a little something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.   Oklahoma City couple Oliver Roper and Debra Russell are slated to say “I […]

Scientists who discovered a primitive, shrew-like Mongolian mammal fossil from 65 million years ago say the animal’s emergence on the scene was not unlike that of another particular state of affairs ” this one, actually.   According to scientists writing in a recent edition of the journal Nature, the recognition of the mammal “Maelestes gobiensis,” […]

Here’s a nice little picker-upper for those who don’t think Oklahoma City gets enough good news: Our water tastes like nothing. No, no ” that’s good.   As reported by Reuters, “a neutral water that tastes of nothing won the ‘best of the best’ award” at a recent annual competition to find “North America’s finest […]

Oh, wait, you thought fishermen lied when their lips were moving?   Actually, there’s a guy who can speak to that, according to a recent story in The Oklahoman.   John Thomas is Oklahoma’s polygraph technician, administering lie detector tests for Oklahoma’s bass fishing tournaments, according to the Oke.   For those not familiar with […]

As Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign heats up, so does Chicken-Fried News’ irritation at the former New York City mayor’s contract rider. Thanks to OklahomaStateUniversity ” where he spoke in March 2006 ” it’s up for the world to see.   Giuliani won lots of fans nationwide for his handling of Big Apple matters following the […]

What’s in a name? A lot, at least when it comes to one street in Norman. The University of Oklahoma student-run newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, recently shed light on a street in Campus Corner, which was named after “a one-time grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.”   The inauspicious stretch of road, DeBarr Avenue, […]