Posted on 01/31/2005 11:39:24 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Political Pulse: 01.30.05
After Corpus Christi was named second-dumbest city in the nation behind Fort Wayne, Ind., local morning radio talk show host Jim Lago got on the radio and said Corpus Christi does not like coming in second.
He wants to challenge Fort Wayne radio listeners to a trivia contest versus Corpus Christi listeners. He told the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, which picked up his show, that the cities are comparable because they have both struggled to keep manufacturing afloat, schools in both cities are facing budget crunches and the populations are comparable.
Lago told the Journal Gazette that win or lose, "For the first time in my life, I felt like we should have a sister city. It would be like royalty. The inbreds."
Councilmen respond to Men's Health article
At Mo Morehead & Fred Dotts' Friday afternoon weekly see-and-be-seen, John Longoria and City Councilman Rex Kinnison bandied about a response for the editors of Men's Health Magazine, which named Corpus Christi the second stupidest city in the nation.
"I think we should challenge the editor of that magazine to come down and face our 14-year-old spelling bee champ," Longoria said. "He won't have a spell check to help him this time."
(Excerpt) Read more at caller.com ...
That wouldn't be fair, John! How about matching him up with the editor of the Caller-Times instead?
From what I've observed of Corpus Christi, its denizens are a) none too bright and b) not very civic-minded as far as their city's cleanliness goes.
I used to live in Fort Wayne. I moved. Why? Because the people there are a bunch of ass-biting reprobates, that's why.
How did the Sparkling City by the Houston Ship Channel fare in the rankings?
Dunno . . . I just felt like dissing Corpus. ;)
"Fort Wayne, the land that time forgot". The place hasn't changed in 30 years. I saw when they were handed the dummy title, and I just chuckled. I lived there for 1 1/2 years (when I was in HS), and from my experiences the title is well-deserved. Its sort of depressing though, as much of my dad's side of the family still lives there.
The place hasn't changed in thirty years.
Well, apart from the addition of the 2nd tallest skyscraper in the state, an under-construction $20 million library renovation, a gigantic new convention center, the complete refurbishment and expansion of the Memorial Coliseum to 12,500 seats, the creation of the new Headwaters Park festival area on the north edge of the metro area, the incorporation of Aboite Township, an exploding, affluent southwest section that is almost entirely new, and which includes several brand new shopping malls, our brand new baseball team with its brand new stadium, I guess you're right. Nothing's changed.
But if Fort Wayne is stupider than Boston or Minneapolis, why is ours always a red county, why do we have Mark Souder, a conservative Republican for a Congressman, We don't inflict the likes of Ted Kennedy on anybody.
Liberals like Men's Health Magazine don't like Fort Wayne? GOOD! Stay the hell out of here so you don't screw up a good thing. ...biased piece of B.S.....nonsense....grrrrr...
Posted on Tue, Jan. 25, 2005
‘Dumbest’ inspires jealousy
Corpus Christi radio station calls for battle of the brainless
By Rick Farrant
The Journal Gazette
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/10728559.htm
It should have died by now, this thing about Men’s Health magazine naming Fort Wayne the dumbest city in the nation.
But like a B movie, it keeps coming back in reruns.
First, it was the local media pontificating and covering the story, complete with views of dismissive or disgruntled city denizens. Then it was newspaper heavyweight USA Today devoting a significant portion of a section front to the topic.
Now comes this: A radio station in Corpus Christi, Texas, (the city dubbed second stupidest) wants to wrest the title from the Summit City.
In a competitive spirit some might consider misguided, Jim Lago, an AM morning host at News Talk 1440 KEYS, says his city doesn’t like finishing second.
He’s even come up with some slogans for his coastal community that should help the public relations push.
“Welcome to Corpus Christi,” one goes, “where C students live like kings.”
Or, “Corpus Christi, our dropouts do better than your high school graduates.”
Or, “Corpus Christi, come be a genius or fit right in.”
His campaign doesn’t stop there. He’d like to arrange a minor league baseball game between the Fort Wayne Wizards and the Corpus Christi Hooks, never mind that that Wizards are single A and the Hooks are double A.
“What’s a few A’s among dumb people?” Lago reasons.
Lago would also like to set up a trivia contest pitting listeners of Fort Wayne’s WOWO-AM, 1190 and 1440 KEYS. He even called WOWO morning news host Charly Butcher on Friday to discuss arrangements.
Nothing was settled between the two, but Butcher says he’s all for it.
He has just one problem. He, too, is saddled with what some might consider a misguided competitive spirit.
“It puts me in a quandary,” Butcher says. “Here we are No. 1 on the list of dumbest cities, they want to take it from us, it’s a competition and I hate to lose.
“Here’s another way of looking at it: The winner’s the stupidest city? No, the loser is the stupidest city.”
He is, nevertheless, game for the challenge and will propose that Men’s Health come up with the trivia questions and monitor the competition.
Before Lago and Butcher get that set up, they may have another opportunity for bragging rights: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne play two men’s basketball games next month – Feb. 2 there, Feb. 21 here.
If anything, Lago says, these kinds of real and proposed jousting matches could lead to Fort Wayne and Corpus Christi becoming sister cities – something, he says, that makes sense because the two communities, save for an ocean front, are so similar. They’ve both struggled with keeping manufacturing afloat, schools in both cities are facing budget crunches and the populations are comparable.
Fort Wayne’s population is about 225,000. Lago says Corpus Christi’s population is about 275,000.
Which means, Lago says, “we’ve got 50,000 more dumb (expletive) than you’ve got.”
Win or lose, though, “for the first time in my life, I feel like we should have a sister city,” he says. “It would be like royalty. The inbreds.”
(The Fort Wayne paper did a lot better job on this story.;^)
You guys gotta take the blame for Paul Helmke.
Men's Health
Isn't that published by the same towering intellects that put out "Rolling Stone?'
I'm reminded of the story about glass houses...
(I visited Fort Wayne for a job interview a couple years ago, and enjoyed it very much. Clean streets, not much traffic, and friendly people.)
I almost forgot about that RINO. My ex g/f flipped and supported Bayh after Rusthoven lost to Helmke....
And then that numbnuts RINO tried to make a "comeback" and take down Souder. Good thing the primary voters put a stop to that.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Thorns & Roses: 02.04.05
February 4, 2005
Smartly done
Corpus Christi and Fort Wayne, Ind., wouldn't seem to have much in common - but we share one distinction: Both communities have been trashed by Men's Health magazine.
The January-February issue included an article rating the intelligence of residents of the nation's 101 most populous cities. Corpus Christi was No. 100, trailed only by Fort Wayne.
This raised hackles here (and there), but in the end it was good for a few chuckles - and added an edge to a (previously scheduled) basketball game between the men's teams from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. (The Islanders won.)
With local radio commentator Jim Lago fanning the flames, the game drew a good crowd (those wearing dunce caps got two tickets for the price of one).
Dumb? Hardly. ROSES to all concerned in the effort to defend the honor, and the smarts, of both cities.
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