“OK” first appeared in print

It was in the Boston Post.

We are grateful “OK” came into being. It made possible our motto, “It’s OK to Be Dull.”

A good topic for Dull Men’s Club meetings is the origins of Okay, O.K., and OK. Wikipedia has 15 pages on this fascinating topic, click here.

Stories about the origin vary:

OK is the initials of “Oll Korrect,” which is a misspelling of “all correct.”
OK is the initials of ‘Old Kinderhook,” which is a nickname for President martin Van Buren that stemmed from his birthplace Kinderhook, NY.
It’s from the Choctaw Indian word “okeh.

Albert Einstein
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”

~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
Hoagy Carmichael
"Slow motion gets you there faster"

~ Hoagy Carmichael
Marilyn Thomsen
"While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary"

~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
“We’re giving a good name to a four-letter word — dull”
testi 2
“Glitz and glam — not worth the bother”
testi 3
“We don’t try to keep up with the Joneses — who are the Joneses anyway?”
testi 4
“Time is a great invention — it’s what keeps everything from happening all at once”
Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”

~ Will Rogers