help the newbie - casually cosmopolitan?

[dayzella]

I see this phrase slung around a lot and I can't ever tell if the people using it are being facetious or are absolutely sincere.

Casually cosmpolitan?  Was it a catch phrase on a commercial or radio station?


It is a mouthful, that.

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by dayzella

I see this phrase slung around a lot and I can't ever tell if the people using it are being facetious or are absolutely sincere.

Casually cosmpolitan?  Was it a catch phrase on a commercial or radio station?


It is a mouthful, that.

Enjoy. They're serious. A variation of a chamber of commerce slogan...Comfortably Cosmopolitan...as though being cosmopolitan is somehow a tedious task or that Tulsa fits that description. Smugly Pretentious, now there's a winner!

[cannon_fodder]

Tulsa, as cheap as Arkansas but not. []

[PonderInc]

Although it is a "real" phrase (somebody paid somebody to come up with another marketing slogan), I would say that when you read it on this forum, people are using it "tongue-in-cheek."

I actually like it, as far as these things go.  But then again, I'm old enough to remember when our license plates used ot say "Oklahoma is OK."

[Ed W]

So if 'cosmopolitan' means belonging to all the world, then casually cosmopolitan would have to mean lightly or informally related to all the world.  That would have to mean that the Tulsa metro area reflects the rest of the planet, and embraces the differences and diversity that occur worldwide, unless of course, they're TOO different, like Hispanics, Yankees, gays, lesbians, Texans, liberals, etc.

(I'm really tempted to launch into that old Lenny Bruce routine, but I can't remember enough of it!)

The C of C types are a surely a diverse bunch, aren't they?

[cannon_fodder]

I thought it was "comfortably cosmopolitan" that was the chosen slogan.  Casually cosmo is just bad.  Actually, any slogan that needs explaining is bad.

[dbacks fan]

Personally, I don't drink cosmopolitans, I prefer a Canadien whisky or a very good tequila that does not say Cuervo anywhere on it.

[just_like_new]

I'm kind of a newbie too, but I think the phrase is pretty representative of what Tulsa is like.  It may have its share of close-minded people, but it has always seemed a bit more progress than its surroundings to me.  I live in New York City half the year while I am at school, and it wears me out.  I like that Tulsa has things that are considered cosmopolitan (interesting and diverse art & culture, unusual restraunts and bars, etc.), but doesn't carry all the baggage of grimy streets and smelly trash on the sidewalks.  Plus people are friendly, which is nice.  Its "comfortably cosmopolitan" feel is why I am moving back after I graduate in May.  

Granted the actual wording of the phrase is not so good.

[RecycleMichael]

You are moving away from New York City and to Tulsa upon graduation?

We need you to do a commercial for the Chamber of Commerce...

[Double A]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy
Smugly Pretentious, now there's a winner!

Casually Cosmopolitan. Smugly Pretentious. Same Difference. Feh.

It reminds me of those "upscale" a#%holes that wanted to name the area between 15th, the B.A., Utica, and Peoria, NoChe(as in North Cherry Street).

Nauseatingly Narcissistic.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy
Smugly Pretentious

they can't use that for the entire city because midtown has that trademarked.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Ed W

The C of C types are a surely a diverse bunch, aren't they?

hahaha....no, the C of C looks like a snapshot of Kinderlandverschickung.

[TheArtist]

Actually they were thinking about using "comfortably cosmopolitan" but went with the "I Am Tulsa" campaign instead.  You must be reading some old threads or getting that from people who dont realize the city isnt going to use the "compfortably cosmopolitan" slogan.

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by TheArtist

Actually they were thinking about using "comfortably cosmopolitan" but went with the "I Am Tulsa" campaign instead.  You must be reading some old threads or getting that from people who dont realize the city isnt going to use the "compfortably cosmopolitan" slogan.

"I Am Tulsa" is much better. A variation of Gundy's "I Am A Man". We could also go with "The Seven Faces of Tulsa", sort of a take off on our multiple personality psychosis. Midtown=smug & bad, Northside=gangster bad, Eastside=pretty damn bad, West=blue collar bad, South=pretentious, envious & precarious, Burbs(BA,Jenks,Owasso etc.)=God's country, Downtown=the triumvirate, politics,banking & atty bad.

Or just rename the city Sybil.

[cannon_fodder]

We Are Tulsa is the U of Tulsa athletic slogan (and Marshall, UCLA, and...).  The Ad Counsel did the "I Am American" campaign not too long ago (great commercial).  Very unoriginal if that's really the case.