OK WITH OK!

   WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23RD.
             OK WITH OK!

    It's a common word with me.
And probably with you as well! And
it's OK to say "OK." In fact today,
March 23rd., is "OK Day!"
    It started one day in 1839, when
a few newspaper editors in Boston
were joking around. "They had a lot
of abbreviations that they were using
and made up on the spot and OK was
an abbreviation for 'All Correct.'
   Soon, OK was being used for the
telegraph, like an early form of the
LOLs and OMGs sent in text messages
today.
    The expression became so popular
they even used it for the name of a
Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Of
course things didn't work out OK
for Clantons when they ran into
the Earps and Doc Holliday there
in 1881. I guess you could say the
Claytons got KO'ed at the OK that
morning.
    "We heard the term A-OK a lot
during the early days of the Space
race. Some sources contend it may
be the most widely used expression
in the world. That's OK with me!
     March 23, 2011, was the first-ever
OK Day. 162 years to the day since
those two little letters were printed
together in the Boston Morning Post.
     Hope everything's OK with you
and that all your NEWS is good!