IT'S GOOD TO BE "OK!"

    SATURDAY, MARCH 23RD., 2019
            IT'S GOOD TO BE "OK!"

   

    It's a common phrase 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 !.

    "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!