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ksearls
05-21-2008, 03:37 PM
Hey Guys!

Need to pick your brains for a quick top five for the Dean A. McGee awards tomorrow night! Looking for Lettermanesque humor for a top 5 list of how Downtown has changed. Below are last year's top five. Get ready, get set, GO!!!


TOP 5 SIGNS DOWNTOWN HAS CHANGED
5) THE CITY HAS SAVED MILLIONS NO LONGER HAVING TO MOW THE OKLAHOMA RIVER
4) THE HORNETS: “BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST… “
OH NEVERMIND, WE STILL WANT OUR OWN TEAM!
3) IT ONLY TOOK A COUPLE FIRES AND A CONCRETE STAGE SURROUNDED BY WATER, BUT SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK IS FINALLY DOWNTOWN
2) “DOWNTOWN LIVING” NO LONGER MEANS A STINT IN THE COUNTY JAIL
1) EVERYONE’S WORKING TO MAKE OUR STREETS MORE COLORFUL, BUT WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT OF MAKING THE UNDERGROUND FLOURESCENT? OF COURSE…RAND ELLIOTT!

sethsrott
05-21-2008, 03:55 PM
I love #2!

Pete
05-21-2008, 04:04 PM
5. When someone says they're staying downtown, you now have to ask them "Where"?
4. Mentioning an event at the Skirvin isn't necessarily a reference to a 1970's high school prom.
3. Automobile Alley now provides reasons to actually get out of your automobile.
2. Midtown: Heritage Hills' hip little brother!
1. Sure a water taxi sounds fun! But which one??

Will
05-21-2008, 04:07 PM
I got a good laugh from #5 and #2. :congrats:

Steve
05-21-2008, 04:09 PM
While at Farmers Market, I was asked whether Rand's designs for Kerr Park will result in it giving off a florescent red glow that will be seen from space. The person was joking. But I'll rule nothing out until I hear otherwise.
-Steve

Will
05-21-2008, 04:11 PM
How about:

The term "Nightlife" no longer refers to crickets.

ksearls
05-21-2008, 04:12 PM
Like them! Keep em coming!

Kerry
05-21-2008, 04:20 PM
We laid off the fairy god-mother. Downtown no longer turns in to a pumpkin at midnight.

Concerned residents have finally stopped calling 911 to report large rectangular shapped UFOs with bright lights that only appear after sunset.

I saw an add in the Oklahoman for a high-rise construction crane operator. Apply at 20 N. Broadway.

Pete
05-21-2008, 04:29 PM
From a river to mow to Boathouse Row.

Kerry
05-21-2008, 04:31 PM
People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

johnnyincog
05-21-2008, 04:42 PM
People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

nice. also:

best Seattle import is no longer Starbucks.

bwana_bob
05-21-2008, 04:44 PM
7. Most people DON'T assume that the rising mound of dirt for the Native American Cultural Center is just another landfill.
6. A beautification project means more than just boarding up broken windows and spraying Roundup on the cracks in the pavement.
5. Downtown residents now want a shopping cart AND the grocery store that goes with it.
4. Our mayor gets exposure on Ellen and CNN, not Dannysday.
3. We actually need signs to direct visitors to attractions, not the suburbs
2. Riverboats spotted in Oklahoma City are NOT the result of an archaeological dig
1. A new McDonald's seems less like economic progress and more like a threat to our aesthetic standards.

the_Mont
05-21-2008, 04:47 PM
I like the original poster's #5 and #2.

okcpulse
05-21-2008, 04:49 PM
1. Visiting downtown no longer translates to "I had to pay my traffic ticket".
2. You're still downtown after 5PM, but not because your car stalled.
3. Fodor's mentions downtown and Bricktown BEFORE the Cowboy Museum
4. A tourist has downtown on their agenda... for two days.
5. Conventioneers no longer stay huddled in the convention center.

okcpulse
05-21-2008, 04:53 PM
Landscaping downtown no longer means weed-whacking the parking lot. And a construction announcement doesn't involve the words 'detention'.

The Old Downtown Guy
05-21-2008, 06:30 PM
OKC Urban Renewal Authority provides plenty of material for local comedians.

No damned place to park.

People movin' out - - people movin' in - - it doesn't matter what's the color of their skin.

Kerry
05-21-2008, 07:11 PM
An Old Downtown Guy is a valued member of on-line discussion group, not a crazy guy pushing a shopping cart talking to imaginary people.

Karried
05-21-2008, 07:20 PM
People movin' out - - people movin' in - - it doesn't matter what's the color of their skin.


?????????

Don't use that one.
http://www.okctalk.com/images/vbe2blue/misc/progress.gif

dismayed
05-21-2008, 09:34 PM
Edmond's Shakespeare in the Park moved downtown? How did I miss that? Can I have some details.

Nawfside OKC
05-21-2008, 11:15 PM
1. The NBA Playoffs...oh that's 2010..sorry!!

AFCM
05-22-2008, 05:45 AM
- Metro's post count has gone up an average of .36 a day since 2005.

- The once-endangered buffalo again thrives in central Oklahoma.

The Old Downtown Guy
05-22-2008, 06:41 AM
An Old Downtown Guy is a valued member of on-line discussion group, not a crazy guy pushing a shopping cart talking to imaginary people.

Or perhaps both . . .

metro
05-22-2008, 07:12 AM
Downtown now has signs not just to tell you where the closest parking lot is...

OKCMallen
05-22-2008, 07:37 AM
1. A new McDonald's seems less like economic progress and more like a threat to our aesthetic standards.



HAH nice

metro
05-22-2008, 07:44 AM
ohhhh, i think I finally have a good one.

1.) Bricktown used to require having "bricks" in their developments.

AFCM
05-22-2008, 12:17 PM
You have a thread about the top five signs indicating Downtown has changed.

Steve
05-22-2008, 03:24 PM
You have a thread about the top five signs indicating Downtown has changed.

Newsflash: Just talked with Kim, and she confused AFCM's sign-off on the shortest straw with the comment itself. Kim, yes, I am mocking you.

OKCMallen
05-22-2008, 04:53 PM
Downtown is now referred to the CBD

CuatrodeMayo
05-22-2008, 06:29 PM
1. That I have plans to move there this summer.

metro
05-22-2008, 09:32 PM
no one liked my comment about Bricktown used to require bricks in their developments? I'm surprised johnnyboy doesn't have anything to stay about the "great use of stucco" or something.

mmonroe
05-22-2008, 11:32 PM
What is the name of the building on the canal near Harkins? The Centennial? I can't believe it's not all brick... stucco.. gross. How about that new McDonalds building?? First all brick building for them?

Oh GAWD the Smell!
05-22-2008, 11:45 PM
Bricktown is f***ing Matt Damon.

The Old Downtown Guy
05-23-2008, 07:07 AM
no one liked my comment about Bricktown used to require bricks in their developments? I'm surprised johnnyboy doesn't have anything to stay about the "great use of stucco" or something.

There is a totally different set of design guidelines for new development south of Reno vs "historic" Bricktown. Also, I think that the Urban Renewal Authority is the final decision maker regarding development on URA land.

metro
05-23-2008, 07:17 AM
ODG, I know, but it was a joke. Lower Bricktown still made it's cash off Bricktown propers earlier success.

OKCMallen
05-23-2008, 07:46 AM
The worst is the damn parking garage. The paint is fading on it and it looks like crap next to the new hotel which IS using brick.

The Old Downtown Guy
05-23-2008, 10:54 PM
Alley named in honor of home grown contemporary rock band whose front man proclaims "this is way f.....g cool" at the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Old guy can do downtown pub crawl with several young creative types and make it home before midnight without being arrested.

mmonroe
05-24-2008, 04:40 AM
HAHA, I was there at the Flaming Lips ceremony.... oh good laughs.