A fork of Rural Dictionary
An Ozark verb meaning to be cautious. Conservative. Modest. Taken from a phrase used while skinny dipping in a willow bordered creek.
Keep close to the willows when you deal with a backstabbing gossip.
A room where one can talk freely without being recorded
or held accountable for what he says.
Mitt Romney talks about wealth disparity in quiet rooms.
Avoiding digital activities such as checking your phone and logging into facebook for a meaningful period of time, usually the length of a vacation.
To improve creative thinking and concentration my doctor ordered a digital detox.
A strategy board game that is a variation of Gomoku. Pente was invented in 1977 on checkerboard table cloths at a Pizza parlor in Stillwater, Oklahoma called the Hideaway. The object is to place 5 stones in a row or capture 5 pairs of your opponents stones.
While waiting for my pizza I learned how to play Pente. Thirty years later I still have not mastered it.
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. It is widely considered to be the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Harvard was so pissed off that OU produced the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and they didn't.
Plus, OU still has a better football team.
What Republicans call political cost/benefit analysis. If a politician avoids political calculus on a policy or prospective bill or movement,
it means that it is unpopular. If a politician embraces political calculus, it means that it is popular.
Marco Rubio said he avoided political calculus on immigration reform because he knew his party was against it but thought the country
was for it. Double think!
Rick and Morty is a crazed animated Adult Swim show that features an alcoholic mad scientist (Rick)
who drags his hapless grandson (Morty) into outrageous sci fi adventures.
Rick and Morty bear some resemblance to Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly from Back To The Future.