Atlanta ranked 4th most literate city
Reading is FUNdamentil, says London PETA protester.
We may be rude, but at least Atlantans is good with books.
A study by some college in Connecticut ranks Atlanta as the forth most literate major U.S. city, trailing only Washington D.C., Seattle and Minneapolis. Atlanta was ranked forth last time to.
City rankings was based on several facters, including newspaper circulation (hooray!), book perchases, education level of residents and library infurmation.
The Los Angeles Times laments the dumness of Californians, who are surely responsible for that cities 59th position, by making fun of the smartest city in America, Washington D.C.
“Considering the fact that it appears that no one in Congress reads the laws they vote on, this is remarkable news,” the Times writes in parentheses, which means they were too scared to just come out and say it.
I wonder about these ranking myself, since New York City is tied with Austin, Texas, for 22nd and we know neither one of them be that smart.
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84 comments Add your comment
cheerfortech
January 26th, 2012
2:53 pm
If we are the 4th most literate, please change the forth to fourth on the link to this story!
Kathryn
January 26th, 2012
3:01 pm
“Atlantans is good with books”? Maybe the rest of us average into the fourth most literate, but the man who wrote this is certainly pulling down that number.
Realcondo
January 26th, 2012
3:04 pm
It’s a joke. You’re bringing our sense of humor ranking down.
Mike
January 26th, 2012
3:05 pm
I thought “satire” like this went out with “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
George Mathis
January 26th, 2012
3:06 pm
Note: This is a humor blog. Don’t take it too seriously.
Lee
January 26th, 2012
3:11 pm
dumBness. duh. Rankings WERE based. Are all of these errors on porpoise?
Fayefan
January 26th, 2012
3:11 pm
“…book perchases..”
Seriously??????
There’s plenty of illiterate people around here, please don’t diss the more intelligent ones.
Robyn
January 26th, 2012
3:17 pm
Fix the spelling in purchases, dumbness, information, factors……nevermind, just delete the whole article and let someone literate write it!!! OMG
jeffrey d
January 26th, 2012
3:26 pm
And here I thought the obvious intentional spelling errors were…obvious
Johanna
January 26th, 2012
3:36 pm
LOL!…I appreciate the mid-afternoon funny! Thanks!