Lucky Bob
05-14-2002, 02:10 AM
Our first strange news comes from Turkey....
ANKARA (Reuters) - Local authorities seeking to boost their budgets resulted in Turkey counting at least 3.65 million non-existent people in a national census in 2000.
"It has been established so far that 3,651,000 people were recorded as imaginary population," Sefik Yildizeli, the country's chief statistician, told reporters Thursday.
Officials acknowledge that the 2000 census, which reported a national population of 64,059,000, was distorted by fake counts at scores of municipalities, whose state budgets are tied to population size.
Statisticians are trying to strip the results of the corrupted data and revise the figures.
The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Yildizeli said revised results would be completed by August.
And next, some rather funny entertainment quotes...
"I've become obsessed ... I'd hoped to hate it -- it's so unchic. I wish I'd become a surfer."
-- Actor HUGH GRANT telling the New York Daily News about his golf game.
No comment. :D
"Our target audience has an average IQ of 87."
--Mad magazine co-editor Nick Meglin, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"And we usually disappoint them."
-- Mad co-editor John Ficarra.
Anyone wishing to write an angry letter to MAD, now's the time to do it.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Local authorities seeking to boost their budgets resulted in Turkey counting at least 3.65 million non-existent people in a national census in 2000.
"It has been established so far that 3,651,000 people were recorded as imaginary population," Sefik Yildizeli, the country's chief statistician, told reporters Thursday.
Officials acknowledge that the 2000 census, which reported a national population of 64,059,000, was distorted by fake counts at scores of municipalities, whose state budgets are tied to population size.
Statisticians are trying to strip the results of the corrupted data and revise the figures.
The census was also criticized by some local politicians for failing to count many people in shanty housing, particularly in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Yildizeli said revised results would be completed by August.
And next, some rather funny entertainment quotes...
"I've become obsessed ... I'd hoped to hate it -- it's so unchic. I wish I'd become a surfer."
-- Actor HUGH GRANT telling the New York Daily News about his golf game.
No comment. :D
"Our target audience has an average IQ of 87."
--Mad magazine co-editor Nick Meglin, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"And we usually disappoint them."
-- Mad co-editor John Ficarra.
Anyone wishing to write an angry letter to MAD, now's the time to do it.