U Penn’s embarrassing geographic gaffe

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<p>It’s Colombia.</p>

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<p>The country in South America is Colombia - the US city in SC is Columbia.</p>

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And the university in New York.</p>

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<p>The Columbia/Colombia is something I can understand as a typo. But yeah haha now we’ve found where the 60% mistake came from.</p>

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<p>“As for the “huge post”: well, I thought it was a hoot! But maybe we don’t share the same sense of humor.”</p>

<p>Nope. I like Philly and UPenn.</p>

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As is the river in the PNW.</p>

<p>Penn isn’t alone in misspelling the name of the Colombia (the country); Delta Air Lines did that in a press release (or advertisement, I forget which one) too. </p>

<p>As for 60% of the US population living within a 2-hour train ride of Philly? I don’t understand how someone with any knowledge of geography might even think that’s correct. While they’re at it, they might as well start stating facts abut the other Philadelphias in the US.</p>

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<p>IMO, there’s nothing wrong with thinking your region is the “most important” in the sense that there are things about it that you value most.</p>

<p>But where I draw the line is, I don’t think you get to make up your own facts. And being so woefully ignorant of the facts, especially for a major university, is appalling.</p>

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<p>“Philadelphia is home to twelve professional sports teams”</p>

<p>[Philadelphia</a> for Business - PhiladelphiaUSA.travel](<a href=“Philadelphia USA - Noticias de actualidad”>Philadelphia USA - Noticias de actualidad)</p>

<p>Has Philly happened to gain or lose any recently? Any sports fans want to list 'em all?</p>

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<p>I guess it would depend on which sports you include, but for boasting rights I’d think you’d want to go with as many as possible. :)</p>

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<p>Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, 76ers, Soul, Freedoms, Union, Wings</p>

<p>? Roller Girls
? Riversharks (actually in camden…)
? Kixx-suspended season
? Fight- rugby</p>

<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>CDK, so really it’s eight biggies then that everybody mostly thinks of with Philly?</p>

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<p>Perhaps Penn [correctly] doesn’t recognize the citizenship those who iron a crease into their blue jeans.</p>

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<p>It’s PENN not UPenn, but I’m not creating a big thread about another gaffle. :D</p>

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<p>It struck me that people probably pay a lot more attention to the score at last Friday night’s game than geographic distance and population percentages. If a brochure error were sports related, now that would get noticed, lol. </p>

<p>Just for grins I took a look since I had the page up anyway, and I had to laugh when I saw that those two numbers weren’t the same, but I figured there probably was a good reason. Just was curious what it was. :-)</p>

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<p>I often wonder why people are offended with the UPenn when their own webpage url has upenn all over it…</p>

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JUST what I was going to post. They own both penn.edu and upenn.edu, yet choose to go by upenn.edu (penn.edu redirects to it).</p>

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<p>They don’t proofread before they publish? That’s not much better.</p>

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<p>I haven’t read the whole thread…but maybe Penn is within a two hour plane ride of 60% of Americans and someone heard train instead of plane?</p>

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<p>I HAVE read the whole thread, and my guess is somebody in the PR department said that after her divorce from Sean PENN, Madonna dated 60% of the guys in the NBA, one of whom was Dennis Rodman, who wore a wedding dress with a long TRAIN when he infamously married himself?</p>

<p><a href=“http://thedirty.com/2010/08/dennis-rodman-proves-you-cant-get-rid-of-drd/[/url]”>http://thedirty.com/2010/08/dennis-rodman-proves-you-cant-get-rid-of-drd/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Maybe not just a geographical gaffe. Numerical one as well. Had they known 60% is more than half, would they have said it?</p>