@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus , that's awesome.  I'd like to tell a guy like that that I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own two hands.

Here's what I remember about Lawton, having visited a couple of times to play high school football games: lots of strip clubs and neon lights on everything.

Hey, @avclub-d019eb089e65903455cc52308f00b997:disqus , I'm from OKC, and I got called an asshole by several people on this here site about a year ago, when the new Mad Men posters made some overly sensitive souls make a bunch of leaps of logic and think it somehow referred to people jumping off the Twin Towers on…

Cleaver.

Oklahoma was the only state, to my knowledge, where every county voted for McCain/Palin in 2008.  So WV and UT are fuckin' wannabes!

@avclub-ea098057cb0d1379deaf8c1cf4a1fe3b:disqus , I learned something new today.

That would be the video arcade with the sailor on the sign, right?  I remember that place.  It was still there 10 years ago. 

Bob Wills may not be from there, but he made his name there.

Careful.  It's a state with many who are enthusiastic about concealed-carry!

Technically, we can't claim Merle, since he was born in Bakersfield.  But his family was from OK, and he did little to discourage the misconception after "Okie from Muskogee" hit it big.

Chris Gaines.

That's pretty much what I did.

My preferred motto about excessive fruit comes from Apu (as a surprising number of these do): "Delicious, but forbidden."

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus , that is the country-est thing I've ever heard — and I've been to my mother-in-law's family reunions and met guys who answer to Pee-Wee and T-Bone.

I am the sole earner in our household, so we don't have any money.  I also live and work in the United States, which means that I only get 10 paid vacation days a year.  Ergo, we don't go on vacations/holidays.  Instead, we spend a weekend here and there in Milwaukee (most recently, the weekend before last, for a baby…

"fuck 'em if they can't keep up."

I don't know.  St. Patrick's Day exists pretty much to celebrate ingesting a substance*, and damned little else.

Sounds like a problem a podiatrist might be able to help.  If you just want to be out for a longer time, get on a bike!  It'll take you three times as long to burn as many calories as you do while running.

Great job!  I started couch-to-5K last July, and it got me into good enough shape to participate in a triathlon by early October.  Now I'm running 4 miles regularly — not real fast, but consistently.

The Traveling Wilburys' "Handle with Care" has been my biggest surprise for running, and it fits that I-need-a-boost-before-the-last-mile period for me, perfectly. It gets me back into a good step if I'm getting tired-sloppy.