Neal Hefti, who honed his skills playing in big bands in high school in Hastings, then went on to write the theme song for the movie "The Odd Couple" and the "Batman" television show died Saturday at his Los Angeles-area home.
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Didn't see it mentioned, but Delta Force operator and Medal of Honor recipient Randy Shughart was born in Lincoln.
He and another Delta operator (Gary Gordon) were killed in Somalia in 1993 after they went in alone to protect a crashed helicopter and it's crew. Gary and Randy were killed after holding off an angry mob, numbering in the 100s, for almost an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shughart
In the movie Black Hawk Down, Randy was portrayed by actor Johnny Strong.
He and another Delta operator (Gary Gordon) were killed in Somalia in 1993 after they went in alone to protect a crashed helicopter and it's crew. Gary and Randy were killed after holding off an angry mob, numbering in the 100s, for almost an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shughart
In the movie Black Hawk Down, Randy was portrayed by actor Johnny Strong.
I had forgot about this until yesterday's race
NASCAR's Harley J. Earl Daytona 500 Trophy
Each year's Daytona 500 trophy is hand made for the race winner by Omaha, NE sculptor John Liba.
NASCAR's Harley J. Earl Daytona 500 Trophy
Each year's Daytona 500 trophy is hand made for the race winner by Omaha, NE sculptor John Liba.
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Clarks, NE is the hometown of Evan Williams, the founder of Twitter as well as Blogger.
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I wonder how long it will be before that thing gets broken into?Coyote wrote:First Frisbee Vending Machine Invented in Omaha
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Hahaha You have an idea I'm sure then what it was like living in NYC and telling people I grew up in Nebraska.. Probably was asked if I grew up on a farm from 30 different people.. to which these same people seemed to think that I was trolling them when I said that I was from Omaha which is a large city and have never lived in the country!
I have had much better luck telling people I am from Omaha and leaving the Nebraska part out when meeting people when I go visit NYC. Sure some people couldn't tell you what state Omaha is in but they at least know it's a city and not a farm town.guitarguy wrote:Hahaha You have an idea I'm sure then what it was like living in NYC and telling people I grew up in Nebraska.. Probably was asked if I grew up on a farm from 30 different people.. to which these same people seemed to think that I was trolling them when I said that I was from Omaha which is a large city and have never lived in the country!
When I was making plans to move out here, yes, there were people who had no clue where Omaha was. For some reason people kept calling it "Oklahoma."cp jay 07 wrote:I have had much better luck telling people I am from Omaha and leaving the Nebraska part out when meeting people when I go visit NYC. Sure some people couldn't tell you what state Omaha is in but they at least know it's a city and not a farm town.guitarguy wrote:Hahaha You have an idea I'm sure then what it was like living in NYC and telling people I grew up in Nebraska.. Probably was asked if I grew up on a farm from 30 different people.. to which these same people seemed to think that I was trolling them when I said that I was from Omaha which is a large city and have never lived in the country!
Most common response was, however, along the line of "you're lucky" as those were not good times in the NYC area. (The Beame years)
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I've gotten the Oklahoma question a lot. Â I also get asked if I've seen snow, how many tornados I've been through, where Nebraska is, why anyone would live there, if I'm relieved to be living in a real city, if it was hard to get used to traffic, did I have cable tv, what people in Nebraska do with their free time and my favorite, was it a short drive to Phoenix, because it was close to New Mexico. Â I've been asked how far my nearest neighbor was and how many were in my high school.
My favorite experiences were two: the first was when people in Omaha said to my wife when she moved to Omaha when we first got married "I bet you're glad to get out of Detroit", and when we moved to Detroit people said to me when they found out where I was from, "I bet you're glad to get out of Nebraska"
It's all in your frame of reference. Â Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. Â That's out by Utah and California, right?" Â Yep. Â That's right. Â You're from New York? Â Near Paris, right?
My favorite experiences were two: the first was when people in Omaha said to my wife when she moved to Omaha when we first got married "I bet you're glad to get out of Detroit", and when we moved to Detroit people said to me when they found out where I was from, "I bet you're glad to get out of Nebraska"
It's all in your frame of reference. Â Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. Â That's out by Utah and California, right?" Â Yep. Â That's right. Â You're from New York? Â Near Paris, right?
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I would agree that saying you're from Omaha seems to get a much different response than saying you're from Nebraska. I always say Omaha and haven't gotten too many wild questions or "I bet your life sucked until you moved here" type comments here in Chicago. Mostly "oh, this must be a big change for you." Surprisingly a lot of people seem to know something about or have some sort of connection to Omaha. I met a guy recently who was originally from Philadelphia and when I told him I was from Omaha said "oh, i'm sure you get this all the time, but I'm a huge fan of Saddle Creek Records." I met another guy recently from Phoenix who had been through once and said he loved visiting the Joslyn Art Museum. I met a girl from New York at a party recently who made no comment either way about me being from Omaha but was afraid I would judge her when she said she was from the Hamptons area.
I guess there was one time when a girl approached me and my friend at a bar and began to make small talk. She asked where we were both originally from (my friend was from Madison, WI) and then promptly told us that both places are surely very boring and awful. She was from Lansing, Michigan. In my experience, the state with the least tactful citizens, which I used to think was Iowa, I now believe is Michigan.
I guess there was one time when a girl approached me and my friend at a bar and began to make small talk. She asked where we were both originally from (my friend was from Madison, WI) and then promptly told us that both places are surely very boring and awful. She was from Lansing, Michigan. In my experience, the state with the least tactful citizens, which I used to think was Iowa, I now believe is Michigan.
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How so?Linkin5 wrote:I was in Philadelphia, told them I was from Nebraska and they didn't believe me. From that point on I was treated as if I was an indangered species that had to be coddled. It was pretty hilarious.
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LOL, I remember one conversation that went like this:NovakOmaha wrote:It's all in your frame of reference. Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. That's out by Utah and California, right?" Yep. That's right. You're from New York? Near Paris, right?
Somebody: So, where are you moving?
Me: Omaha.
Somebody: Where's that?
Me: Nebraska.
Somebody: Oh, out by California, huh?
Me: No, closer to New York than California, right dead center in the US.
Somebody: Then by Wyoming, huh?
Me: Yeah, kinda.
Somebody: Aren't you afraid of Indian attacks and such?
No, I am NOT making this up!
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Omababe wrote:LOL, I remember one conversation that went like this:NovakOmaha wrote:It's all in your frame of reference. Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. That's out by Utah and California, right?" Yep. That's right. You're from New York? Near Paris, right?
Somebody: So, where are you moving?
Me: Omaha.
Somebody: Where's that?
Me: Nebraska.
Somebody: Oh, out by California, huh?
Me: No, closer to New York than California, right dead center in the US.
Somebody: Then by Wyoming, huh?
Me: Yeah, kinda.
Somebody: Aren't you afraid of Indian attacks and such?
No, I am NOT making this up!
Now I'm just depressed.
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It's actually quite astonishing how little elementary geographical knowledge of our own country many people possess...MadMartin8 wrote:Omababe wrote:LOL, I remember one conversation that went like this:NovakOmaha wrote:It's all in your frame of reference. Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. That's out by Utah and California, right?" Yep. That's right. You're from New York? Near Paris, right?
Somebody: So, where are you moving?
Me: Omaha.
Somebody: Where's that?
Me: Nebraska.
Somebody: Oh, out by California, huh?
Me: No, closer to New York than California, right dead center in the US.
Somebody: Then by Wyoming, huh?
Me: Yeah, kinda.
Somebody: Aren't you afraid of Indian attacks and such?
No, I am NOT making this up!
Now I'm just depressed.
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RNcyanide wrote:It's actually quite astonishing how little elementary geographical knowledge of our own country many people possess...MadMartin8 wrote:Omababe wrote:LOL, I remember one conversation that went like this:NovakOmaha wrote:It's all in your frame of reference. Someone who lives here and is from New York asked me, and I swear this is true, "Nebraska. That's out by Utah and California, right?" Yep. That's right. You're from New York? Near Paris, right?
Somebody: So, where are you moving?
Me: Omaha.
Somebody: Where's that?
Me: Nebraska.
Somebody: Oh, out by California, huh?
Me: No, closer to New York than California, right dead center in the US.
Somebody: Then by Wyoming, huh?
Me: Yeah, kinda.
Somebody: Aren't you afraid of Indian attacks and such?
No, I am NOT making this up!
Now I'm just depressed.
If I could have found a job in the field, I actually graduated with a Secondary Education Degree with a Social Sciences endorsement....so this sad fact isn't lost on me.
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I started saying I was from Omaha and hoping they had heard it after being shown just how bad NYers are at US geography and have been asked.. ' oh thats near |fill in any state other than Nebraska no matter how far from Nebraska|' or another classic.. after telling people over and over and over I was moving back to Nebraska ' I don't know why your moving back to |fill in any state between the west/east coast except for Nebraska| why don't you just stay in NYC its so much better than those places'
So yes.. This proves than within the NYC area the majority of people have never been out of the state of NY most vacation upstate and think this is 'traveling' haha
So yes.. This proves than within the NYC area the majority of people have never been out of the state of NY most vacation upstate and think this is 'traveling' haha
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I do get comments about Warren Buffett along the lines of "Hey do you know Warren Buffett?". I have met quite a few people here in Detroit that have ties to Nebraska and the Lions for some reason had a nice pipeline to UNL with Dominic Raiola & Suh and a few others.
There does seem to be a very Michigan-centric attitude here. Very into buying Michigan products. Lots of people, especially the Uof Michigan grads, have an attitude that there is Michigan & there is the rest of the world. Not sure if they teach it in the schools or they just pick it up but its there. There is also this whole Ohio Sucks! thing. When I drive to Columbus Ohio I have to put a Huskers magnet on the car. The Ohio State Police near Columbus give tickets to Michigan plated cars if you go 1 mile over the speed limit.
As for arrogance, I find it a lot more in the northeast and to a lessor extent Texas, but it could just be pride in your home state.
But Hey! Detroit. First in Bankruptcy!
(I'll always be a Nebraska guy. Â I like my life here and have made lots of friends. Â My business thrives and there is no shortage of qualified employees and I'm close to a lot of customers but I still have ties to Nebraska)
There does seem to be a very Michigan-centric attitude here. Very into buying Michigan products. Lots of people, especially the Uof Michigan grads, have an attitude that there is Michigan & there is the rest of the world. Not sure if they teach it in the schools or they just pick it up but its there. There is also this whole Ohio Sucks! thing. When I drive to Columbus Ohio I have to put a Huskers magnet on the car. The Ohio State Police near Columbus give tickets to Michigan plated cars if you go 1 mile over the speed limit.
As for arrogance, I find it a lot more in the northeast and to a lessor extent Texas, but it could just be pride in your home state.
But Hey! Detroit. First in Bankruptcy!
(I'll always be a Nebraska guy. Â I like my life here and have made lots of friends. Â My business thrives and there is no shortage of qualified employees and I'm close to a lot of customers but I still have ties to Nebraska)
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I forgot about Texas. Essentially a plains state like all other plains states and yet somehow their |expletive| smells better. It's one of those places where the execution didn't follow the idea. The old west cowboy culture is alluring, but the execution is more Honey Boo Boo meets Dolly Parton  than John Wayne.
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This is true. On the show "How the States got their Shapes," They'll hand people a cutout of a state and ask them what it is and people will struggle to name it and then ultimately come out wrong.Omababe wrote:In all fairness, I daresay that there are many here in the Omaha area, otherwise well-educated, who could not immediately identify such states as Delaware and New Jersey on a blank map!MadMartin8 wrote:Now I'm just depressed.
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That is a great show. Love to watch it - when I remember and see it on...RNcyanide wrote:This is true. On the show "How the States got their Shapes,"
But in all fairness, growing up in Omaha in the 60's/70's - I really do not remember (maybe for other reasons) much history concerning the East Coast beyond the American Revolution, or Civil War, - if much of that at all... I visited friends in Hartford 20 years ago and they were surprised how little about their cities history I knew. He was on the Board for the Mark Twain House and other civic entities... They had a cabin in Vermont - I didn't know that the name Vermont came from the French Ver-Mont 'Green Mountain' and all sorts of other trivial matters...