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
Michael
January 26th, 2012
7:46 pm
fer shur.
Hugh Jass
January 26th, 2012
7:51 pm
Cheerfortech, You made my day. It is blatantly obvious that this article is tongue in cheek. You not getting it is actually funnier than the humor in the article.
K Bond
January 26th, 2012
7:57 pm
You spelled purchases wrong, dumbass.
Dr. Gray
January 26th, 2012
7:58 pm
Apparently the author of this article is from LA because there are several serious grammatical and spelling errors in this article.
Steve
January 26th, 2012
8:16 pm
ATL is an Airport, not a city . . .
Steve
January 26th, 2012
8:18 pm
Now that I think about it, with a headline that reads, “Where did ATL rank on literate city list?”, makes perfect sense.
Debbie
January 26th, 2012
8:31 pm
Wow. It is scary that so many of the people commenting didn’t get the joke. Great article George.
Debbie
January 26th, 2012
8:36 pm
I think it is really funny that some of these people only saw one or two errors.
James Vandeventer
January 27th, 2012
12:29 am
It would be nice if this article about literacy didn’t have spelling errors.
Fred
January 27th, 2012
11:21 am
Freaking hullareous Goerge. Funyist thing I’ve red all week.