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'''O Cangaceiro'''<br />
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159; Brazilian bar; ''O Cangaceiro'' is a 1954 Brazilian film by director Lima Barreto, inspired by American westerns (but losing none of its cultural integrity) about Cangaceiro (bandit) Teodoro who falls in love with a small town school teacher who his gang has kidnapped. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canga%C3%A7o#Cangaceiro_style]
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'''Ochoa, Eddie'''<br />
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174; driver's ed teacher at Leuzinger High
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'''''Oklahoma!'''''<br />
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153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:
  
'''Ohio Express'''<br />
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The Ohio Express (including their best scoring single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine. The "band" recorded from 1967-1970; Herb Alpert cover of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (1968) 332
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'''Olympics, The'''<br />
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'''O'Hara, Scarlett'''<br />
125; The Olympics were a Los Angeles doo-wop group formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward (1940-2006). The group included Eddie Lewis (tenor, Ward's cousin), Charles Fizer (tenor), Walter Hammond (baritone) and Melvin King (bass) and except for Lewis were friends in a Los Angeles, California high school. Their song "Good Lovin'" was a big hit for The Young Rascals in 1966.
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209 who famously says, at the end of the film ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"
  
'''Omarr, Sidney'''<br />
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'''Ondas Nudosas Community College'''<br />
 
51; Translation from Spanish, "Naked Waves"
 
  
'''O-O'''<br />
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'''O'Neal, Shaquille'''<br />
77; Once Over
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200 - NBA star
  
<div id="oof">'''Oof, Scott'''</div>
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'''Ofeq satellite'''<br />
43; Doc's cousin, in the Corvairs; he also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_23 ''Vineland'']; 115; 296; at Surfadelic Freak-In, 363
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'''Orbison, Roy'''<br />
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'''Ofelia'''<br />
69; "Oh Pretty Woman" reference
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130 Kennedy's babysitter
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'''Old Sod'''<br />
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55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration
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'''Omar the Owl wall clock'''<br />
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115,<br />
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[[Image:omar-owl-clock.jpg]]
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'''Omega Diner'''<br />
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138, where Maxine meets Rocky;
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'''open-outcry era'''<br />
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94
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'''O-O'''<br />
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219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)
  
'''Oriole'''<br />
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'''OSS'''<br />
353; Elmira's friend who teaches junior high and with whom Elmira gets high
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66
  
'''Oscar's'''<br />
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'''Otis'''<br />
37; in San Ysidro, famous for druggy bathrooms
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1, Maxine's son; 32
  
'''Osgood'''<br />
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'''Otto Kugelblitz School'''<br />
226; "natural-born pussy hound" who grabs Trillium for a Texas Two-Step in Curly's in Las Vegas
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2, MT's kids school
  
'''Ostracizer'''<br />
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'''Outfield, Eric'''<br />
196; he means Osterizer, a blender
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10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;
  
'''Ouija Board'''<br />
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'''Oxide Pang'''<br />
163; Doc & Shasta; where to score? 164; "the thick and sorrowful catalogs of human desire" 165;
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142 - The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, ''The Eye'', which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.
  
 
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Oklahoma!
153, The 1955 film adaptation of the 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Here's Gloria Grahame singing "I Cain't Say No" from the film:

O'Hara, Scarlett
209 who famously says, at the end of the film Gone with the Wind (1939), "After all... tomorrow is another day!"


O'Neal, Shaquille
200 - NBA star

Ofeq satellite
104

Ofelia
130 Kennedy's babysitter

Old Sod
55, technically Irish bar where March and Axine go after coop demonstration

Omar the Owl wall clock
115,
Omar-owl-clock.jpg

Omega Diner
138, where Maxine meets Rocky;

open-outcry era
94

O-O
219 - The Once-Over (checking someone out physically)

OSS
66

Otis
1, Maxine's son; 32

Otto Kugelblitz School
2, MT's kids school

Outfield, Eric
10, Stuyvesant genius and Ice's IT maven; 57; 81; 145; at Joie de Beavre, 219; foot fetish, 223, 240;

Oxide Pang
142 - The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Phat and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

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