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I would like to see a section on the rise of the Oil Boom of the 1920s in Crawford County. Oblong played a big role in this and caught the attention of the likes of John D. Rockafeller and Standard Oil. Is anyone out there prepared to write this. It might be best placed as a secondary linking article. It would be a good entry in my opinion and shed some light on the area's Golden Age.

I heard it as "Oblong Boy to Wed Normal Girl". Quite possibly apocryphal, or even a joke that had made the rounds, then was actually used when such a pairing occurred. Cite would be nice.  Randall Bart   Talk  21:25, 4 November 2008 (UTC) reply

In 2012, Bill Flick of the Bloomington Pantagraph said that it ran in that newspaper "nearly 40 years ago" (i.e. shortly after autumn of 1972).

If the Michael Foot article can discuss the probably-made-up headline "Foot Heads Arms Body", then the Oblong deserves at least to say that the "Oblong Man Marries Norman Woman" story is told as true. TypoBoy ( talk) 19:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC) reply

In 2011, Bill Flick wrote in the Pantagraph that the paper did run that headline when they reported the March, 1971, wedding of Sharon and Truman Metheny. ^[1] Johnny Carson read the headline on The Tonight Show when McLean Stevenson, a native of the area, was his guest.

Note that "Normal" in this headline is not a reference to the groom's anatomy, but rather to the town of Normal, Illinois, with Bloomington, Illinois one of the "Twin Cities" comprising the Pantagraph's home territory. I briefly worked for the Pantagraph (in a very low-level position) in the early 1970s, and this headline was widely quoted at the time. -- Bill-on-the-Hill ( talk) 04:38, 24 August 2023 (UTC) reply

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