The survey found accountants spend an average of more than five hours per week with their head in a book.
Lightweights.
And they also read more humorous literature than those from any other occupation, despite being regarded as boring in the popular mind.
A mildewed collection of Hagar the Horrible annuals by the bog, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, or is that not a humorous book? Reading "humorous literature" isn't incompatible with being boring, is it?
While I must spend about ten hours a week reading books, I spend many more reading online texts — though they seem to exclude stuff read as part of one's job.
One wonders whether they mean that accountants read humourous (surely the 'u' is necessary in the UK) literature in the accountant's opinion or by some independent reckoning.
I suspect that computer scientists might not come high by quantity of reading, but would be very near the top of the pile on quality and diversity.
We probably don't exist. Everyone is either an accountant, a secretary, an MP, a journalist, a taxi driver, a lawyer, a teacher, a chef or a clergyman.
I wonder how much clergywomen read. Or are they too busy running around like loons trying to prove that the decision to allow them to exist was a valid one, really.
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Date: 2004-03-04 01:19 am (UTC)-a bsd user taking a dip into slackware
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Date: 2004-03-04 01:48 am (UTC)Lightweights.
And they also read more humorous literature than those from any other occupation, despite being regarded as boring in the popular mind.
A mildewed collection of Hagar the Horrible annuals by the bog, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, or is that not a humorous book? Reading "humorous literature" isn't incompatible with being boring, is it?
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Date: 2004-03-04 02:35 am (UTC)One wonders whether they mean that accountants read humourous (surely the 'u' is necessary in the UK) literature in the accountant's opinion or by some independent reckoning.
I suspect that computer scientists might not come high by quantity of reading, but would be very near the top of the pile on quality and diversity.
On the contrary...
Date: 2004-03-04 02:54 am (UTC)I wonder how much clergywomen read. Or are they too busy running around like loons trying to prove that the decision to allow them to exist was a valid one, really.
Re: On the contrary...
Date: 2004-03-04 02:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-04 03:31 am (UTC)See, they should have opinionated me. My reading habits would have bumped up their paltry figures no end.
(feels a poll coming on)
humorous
Date: 2004-03-04 08:07 am (UTC)