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DEL.ICIO.USTake the Sandy Springs SAT test
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last weekend my daughter Amelia and four friends performed the fall ritual of high school seniors everywhere – taking the SAT. All are aiming for a score that will land them in the college of their choice and maybe some scholarship cash.
So I started thinking — what if one had to take an SAT-style test to be eligible to vote in Sandy Springs? What if we really raised the bar for citizenship? What if one had to earn the right to be called a Sandy Springsteen?
I haven’t drafted a formal presentation for the next city council meeting, but I wanted to give you some study questions so you have prep time. Grab that #2 pencil and good luck!
1) Fulton County is to Sandy Springs as:
a) Toothpaste is to acute gum disease
b) Motor oil is to axle grease
c) General Sherman was to the original Atlanta tourism board
The answer is “c”though a half point is awarded for anyone choosing “a” because they were thrown by the word “disease” in connection to Fulton County.
2) Dave goes into Sandy Springs’ “adult” nightclub. He has $75 is cash and his American Express card. Valet parking is $5; the cover charge is $10. If his drinks are $5 each and table dances are $10, and he has six drinks and two dances, how much will he tell his wife he spent over a five-hour period?
a) $45, but he’ll say he only had two drinks and watched a ballgame at the bar.
b) $75, but claim a client wanted to go there and he just couldn’t talk him out of it.
c) Dave will lie like a dog about the whole thing and forget about it until the Amex bill arrives with a $1,000 charge from the club. His wife sees the bill before Dave, who will pay for that evening for the rest of his life.
The answer could be any of the three, but “c” is the most likely since there is a proven correlation between watching strippers and male-memory lapses.
3) A car is puttering down Roswell Road at 5 p.m. on a Friday. Assuming the stretch it will cover is six miles, and the car is going 48 miles per hour, how long in minutes will the trip take from beginning to end?
a) 24 minutes
b) 16 minutes
c) 8 minutes
OK, this was a trick question. Anyone clocking 48 mph at that hour on that day would have to be driving on the sidewalk to get close to that speed, assuming all pedestrians got out of the way.
So how did you do?
Comments
By mailman
October 26, 2006 11:27 AM | Link to this
Jim Osterman, you are a jackass, get a real job and start contributing to the city of racist, you brag about in this article every week,Sandy Springs is just alot of old, super racist, wanna be rich white people who have nothing else to do wwith thier time but cry about this broke down old city.
p.s. White people stop being the evil people that you are, and stop trying to sell homes in sandy springs that were built in 1980 for 400,000.00 when you only paid 70,000.00 to get it built. See all of you greedy,self loving, money grubbing,white devils in hell
By WellCrap
October 26, 2006 12:58 PM | Link to this
mailman, you blew it, No one had even responded to Jim’s ignorant pathetic attempt at the self promotion of a retard. This was by far even more sad and ignorant of a column than he is usually guilty of and I was hoping no one would respond to his feeble attempt to make up for small genitalia…but mailman..I will say everything you said was true except you left out the part about Sandy Springs being founded by folks who could not afford to live in Atlanta and are now having some adolescent delusion of grandeur .
By Yankee
October 27, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this
Mailman, you are just an ignorant RACIST yourself. I bet you can only count to 21 if you have to unzip your pants…well maybe 20 1/2! Leave Jim alone and the residents of Sandy Springs. The city is making positive improvements and moving forward. This has NOTHING to do with racism. Stop placing blame and move on with your life!
By Earl
October 31, 2006 07:41 AM | Link to this
mailman and WellCrap are nothing more than bitter, minimum wage, deluded welfare monkeys.
Get over yourselves and go buy some more lotto scratch off games. My kids thank you for their education.