IT'S SO HOT ...

We may be too cool to be hot, but that doesn't mean Tulsans aren't skilled complainers. The only saving grace of a mean heat is our ability to talk trash about it -- except maybe developing the delicate art of scramblin' eggs on the sidewalk.

With temperatures skyrocketing, we asked readers, HOW HOT IS IT?!

IT'S SO HOT ...

• You can bake cookies on the dash of your car! -- Liz Hunt, District 4 City Council candidate

• That I've thought about maybe jumping into a public pool! -- Ben Sumner, admitted

germophobic and host of Ben Sumner at Night on KRAV-FM Mix 96

• That Sapulpa caught on fire! -- Logan Basden, age 10.

• I don't have to use my dryer anymore. -- Shane Williams

• I sweat in the shower. -- Katy Livingston

• I'm picking my meals already cooked! -- Jenny Thompson, local yard farmer and landscaper

• It perpetually feels like when you first open the oven and that blast of heat hits you in the face.

-- Isaac Ellis

• I miss the blizzard (NOT)! -- Terry Simonson, chief of staff for Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr.

• I'd cry about it but the tears have already evaporated. -- Joe O'Shansky, UTW cinema writer

• That U2 came here months ago and Bono still hasn't left. He's wandering around telling the

tumbleweed about world drought and hunger because he thinks he's in the Serengeti.

-- Matt Moore

• That Oklahoma's frying pan shape all makes sense now. -- Jake Cornwell

• I stood in my garage this weekend for 10 minutes replacing light switch and electrical outlet

covers and got nauseated and had to go sit down in the A/C for awhile. -- Annie McDonald

• I'd rather be swimming at the Blue Hole Swimming Hole! -- Christina Apostolides, UTW

advertising account executive

• The devil put up a "For Sale" sign in hell and is relocating to the Midwest. -- Gary Casey

• When I pull up to a stoplight, I find myself trying to slowly edge up so there's a light pole or

something that can provide a sliver of shade between me and the sun blaring into my car window.

-- Lynette Cortez

• That milk was a bad choice! -- Michelle Allen, part of the Mayor's communications department

• My jug of Sun Tea started producing neutron radiation and tritium in a cold fusion reaction. I'm

going to call it Solar Teatium. -- Brian Potter, English professor

• I accidentally left my iPhone in the car for an hour yesterday, and when I returned there was a big

yellow warning icon on the home screen saying the phone was, yes, overheated. If I tried to use

it at all, it automatically forwarded me to 911. -- Teresa Miller, founder and executive director of

the Oklahoma Center for Poets & Writers (Ben Sumner lost his iPhone to the Oklahoma heat, too!)