Baja Oklahoma (1955)

Mon Mar 12 23:54:54 UTC 2007

Memory fading, but you may be thinking of his earlier breakout fiction _Semi-Tough_ .

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Dan Jenkins? Isn't this the novel whose protagonist gives name to one
of the most famous plays in (fictional) professional football: Niggers
Go Long?

-Wilson

On 3/10/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> "Baja Oklahmoa" used not to be very common. HDAS omits it because the only cite I could find in those pre-net days were from Dan Jenkins's novel.
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> JL
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> Wilson Gray wrote:
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> I'm aware of this attempt at insulting the Lone Star State. However, I
> think that "Texan: wetback on his way to Oklahoma" is funnier.
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> -Wilson
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> On 3/9/07, Bapopik at aol.com wrote:
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> > Any of you Texans out there heard of "Baja Oklahoma"? (Not in HDAS.) Rio =20
> > Grande roulette?
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > _http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/baja_oklahoma/_=20
> > (http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/baja_oklahoma/)=20
> > =20
> > Baja Oklahoma
> > =20
> > "Baja Oklahoma=E2=80=9D (lower Oklahoma) is an Oklahoma nickname for the sta=
> > te of =20
> > Texas. The term is similar to Baja California. =E2=80=9CBaja Oklahoma=E2=80=
> > =9D is a gentle =20
> > insult and is not normally used by Texans, although it was the title of a Da=
> > n =20
> > Jenkins novel and film (1988).=20
> >
> >
> > _Wikipedia: Baja California_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_California)=
> > =20
> > Baja California (literally =E2=80=9Clower California=E2=80=9D in Spanish) i=
> > s the=20
> > northernmost state of Mexico. It is considered territory of Northern Americ=
> > a. It is=20
> > sometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte, to distinguish i=
> > t=20
> > from both the Baja California peninsula, of which it forms the northern hal=
> > f,=20
> > and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half o=
> > f=20
> > the peninsula. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the N=
> > orth=20
> > Territory of Baja California. It has an area of 71,576 km=C2=B2 (about 27,6=
> > 00=20
> > mi=C2=B2, or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico. The state is bordered on the=
> > west by=20
> > the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and th=
> > e=20
> > Sea of Cortez or Gulf of California, and on the south by Baja California Su=
> > r.=20
> > Its northern limit is the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent to the U.S. state of=
> > =20
> > California. =20
> >
> > _http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094704/plotsummary_ (
> > http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php?URL=3Dhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt009470=
> > 4/plotsummary) =20
> > Plot summary for=20
> > Baja Oklahoma (1988) (TV)=20
> > Dan Jenkins co-wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name=20
> > about Juanita, a barmaid in Ft. Worth, Texas, who wants to be a country-wes=
> > tern=20
> > songwriter.=20
> >
> > 16 December 1955, Long Beach (CA) , pg. 2, col. 1:=20
> > A red-haired congressman from Baja Oklahoma=E2=80=94sometimes known as Texa=
> > s=E2=80=94was=20
> > about ready Thursday to challenge Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) to a game=
> > of=20
> > Rio Grande roulette=E2=80=94Colt .45 Peacemakers at six paces.=20
> >
> > 20 September 1956, Oakland (CA) Tribune, =E2=80=9CSooners =E2=80=98Raid=E2=
> > =80=99 Texas Schools,=E2=80=9D=20
> > pg. 38, col. 1: =20
> > When it comes to football the new name for the great state of Texas is Baja=20=
> > =20
> > Oklahoma.=20
> >
> > 14 December 1958, Long Beach (CA) Independent-Press-Telegram, pg. B12:=20
> > The real lift to the morale of the citizens of the former Lone Star State=20
> > (if subdivided=E2=80=94ed.) would come from a more equitable distribution o=
> > f the=20
> > inferior weather, which has been pretty well monopolized by that section po=
> > pularly=20
> > known as =E2=80=9CBaja Oklahoma.=E2=80=9D=20
> >
> > 4 January 1960, Pasadena (CA) Star-News, comics:=20
> > TELL ME, MY LITTLE =E2=80=9CYELLAH ROSE,=E2=80=9D IS IT TRUE, NOW THAT IT I=
> > SN=E2=80=99T THE BIGGEST=20
> > STATE, THAT TEXAS IS KNOWN AS BAJA OKLAHOMA?=20
> >
> > 21 October 1972, Dallas Morning News, Tolbert=E2=80=99s Texas by Frank X. T=
> > olbert,=20
> > section A, pg. 23: =20
> > =E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99ll make Texas a kind of sub-state or junior province,=
> > =E2=80=9D said my Okie =20
> > friend, =E2=80=9Cand we=E2=80=99ll call it Baja Oklahoma.=E2=80=9D=20
> >
> > 13 January 1974, Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, pg. D1, col. 1:=20
> > This will be the first Super Bowl in the state of Texas, and maybe that=20
> > helps even the National Football league think big. We=E2=80=99ve been needl=
> > ing our Texas=20
> > hosts a bit. You know, calling Texas =E2=80=9CBaja Oklahoma=E2=80=9D and su=
> > ggesting that old=20
> > gag that there wouldn=E2=80=99t even be a Texas if there had been a back do=
> > or at the=20
> > Alamo.=20
> >
> > 30 March 1979, Placerville (CA) Mountain Democrat, pg. A5, col. 1:=20
> > Sheriff run =E2=80=98em outta Arkansas in the 1800s; and, the Rangers run=20=
> > =E2=80=98em outta=20
> > Baja Oklahoma (that there=E2=80=99s North Texas) long about the turn of the=
> > century.=20
> >
> > 12 April 1991, Placerville (CA) Mountain Democrat, pg. A13, col. 1:=20
> > It runs from the outskirts of Oklahoma City to the border of Baja, Oklahoma=
> > =20
> > (as Oklahomans call Texas).=20
> >
> >
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