20 October 2004
Oklahoma travel brochure is a surprise hit
Cow chip tossing may become Olympic event
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma tourism officials have reversed their plan to
recall 200,000 travel brochures after their office has been swamped with
requests for the pamphlets. Instead they are expected to print 500,000
additional guides that will be available by the end of the year.
Officials have been getting requests for the brochures from as far away
as Slovakia and Cambodia and brochures have been selling for upwards of
$250 on eBay.
The
2005 Annual Events Guide, which officials say was produced with a
lack of appropriate oversight, features state-wide activities such as
cow manure tossing and the re-enactment of Confederate battles. While
officials worried that these and other activities may be off-putting to
some tourists, the guide has instead become a surprise hit. Many
tourists say that the many spelling and grammatical errors even add a
certain "country charm" to the publication.
Norbert Glydolf, winner of the 2004
Professional Cow Chip Tossing Challenge, told Travel Fox, "We Oklahomans
are proud of our unique and quirky entertainment preferences."
Indeed, next year the Bureau of Tourism hopes to add photos and
descriptions of the Upstate Upchuck Competition held annually in Parnsey
and the American Doodie Pageant in DeRolmn, both of which are described
as "memorys [sic] form [sic] Oklohoma [sic] that turists [sic] can injoy
[sic] ferever [sic]."
The International Olympic Committee is even sending a representative to
the state to investigate the possibility of including cow chip tossing
as a demonstration sport in the 2008 summer Olympics.
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