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!

I love #2!

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??

I got a good laugh from #5 and #2. :congrats:

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

How about:

The term "Nightlife" no longer refers to crickets.

Like them! Keep em coming!

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.

From a river to mow to Boathouse Row.

People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

nice. also:

best Seattle import is no longer Starbucks.

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.

I like the original poster's #5 and #2.

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.

Landscaping downtown no longer means weed-whacking the parking lot. And a construction announcement doesn't involve the words 'detention'.

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.

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.

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


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

Edmond's Shakespeare in the Park moved downtown? How did I miss that? Can I have some details.

1. The NBA Playoffs...oh that's 2010..sorry!!

- Metro's post count has gone up an average of .36 a day since 2005.

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

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 . . .

Downtown now has signs not just to tell you where the closest parking lot is...

1. A new McDonald's seems less like economic progress and more like a threat to our aesthetic standards.



HAH nice

ohhhh, i think I finally have a good one.

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

You have a thread about the top five signs indicating Downtown has changed.

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.

Downtown is now referred to the CBD

1. That I have plans to move there this summer.

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.

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?

Bricktown is f***ing Matt Damon.

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.

ODG, I know, but it was a joke. Lower Bricktown still made it's cash off Bricktown propers earlier success.

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.

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.

HAHA, I was there at the Flaming Lips ceremony.... oh good laughs.