"'________' RULES OK!"

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Not an expression used very often these days, and one that's always left me puzzled. What is the meaning of the "OK"? It surely can't mean "okay?" which sounds rather conciliatory after such a declaratve statment.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 May 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

alex i'm disappointed in you ok!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

tripleunderscore to thread!

― don (don), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed I do, Alex. Cheers!

― ___ (___), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Bold statement presupposing a warning of a threat? As in OK, you either agree with me/us or face your fate at the end of a dark alley type ultimatum.

Check The Last Resort's We Rule OK for reference.

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oklahoma

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I see what you're saying though, Alex. Maybe it would require a question mark for necessary emphasis.

Oklahoma
-- Dave Stelfox (destelfo...)

heh

― Fr4ncis W4tlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Annie Oakley rules OK!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"!" was the "!!!!1!1!1" of its day

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

it means it's adequate in its reign.

e.g. ELIZABETH RULES OK! BUT VICTORIA RULED WAY BETTER. HER AND BECKS RULE GREATLY! OK??

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

-HER +SHE OBV. OK!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 30 May 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Translation: _______ RULES. THE PREDECING STATEMENT IS >ALL CORRECT.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Aussie Rules OK

― penelope_111, Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

THE USED

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(((((((((((The Used))))))))))))

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Gershwin rules. "Oh, Kay!"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 31 May 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dandy's

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 31 May 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

diamond dogs rule OK

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 May 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet started it officially, I think, with the Give Us A Wink album from 1976. The cover art has "graffiti" somewhere saying "Sweet Rules OK"

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking stalky and co, but without any actual justification

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

'... rules OK' was commonplace long before 1976.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Henry VIII doth rule OK!"

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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