Atlanta Banana T-SLOST Project: Light Speed Trucks

Want to go faster? Just add more trucks. Easy!

Our proposal for T-SPLOST: Simply stack flatbed trucks on top of one another sufficiently high to achieve light speed transit. Travelers will pay larger fares to ride in higher levels of trucks, thus enabling them to choose the speed at which they arrive in the city. Not only will we be getting people to work [...]

OPINION: We May Be a Tiny Chicken Store, but We Are Just as Bigoted

You don't have to be a chicken magnate to hate the gays. PHOTO: Mike Delgaudio, Flickr

My name is Ernest P. Pigwiller, and dangit, I am sick and tired of Chick-Fil-A getting all the attention for hating the gays. Hell, we’ve hated the gays all our lives. You don’t see anyone sticking a camera in our faces or staging demonstrations at our restaurants. God, what I wouldn’t give for a little [...]

T-SPLOST to Change 285 from Circle-ish to Rhombus

This artist's rendition of the proposed highway restructuring for I-285 cost tax-payer's over $200,000

ATLANTA–Amidst all the arguments for or against Atlanta’s proposed T-SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax), one important aspect of the tax is dividing Atlantans more than any other: the changing of interstate I-285 from its general circular shape to something that resembles a rhombus.   Proponents of the tax claim that a rhombus, or [...]

Conservatives Announce Kids Puppet Group “The Reagles”

Amazing Ron prototype for kid's puppet group The Reagles. PHOTO: Flickr

ATLANTA–In the wake of the Muppets severing all ties with fast food chain Chick-Fil-A, conservative groups across America have banded together to produce their own children’s puppet group, the Reagles. “This is a movement that has been brewing for a long time,” said Vernon Wormer, head of Conservatives On Creative Kids Shows. “The Muppets announcement [...]

Chiropractor Mastermind Takes Credit For Tennis Tournament

Nothing boosts business for bone crackers quite like a tennis tournament. PHOTO: dcJohn, Flickr

ATLANTA–A chiropractor calling himself only “The Bonecracka” is taking credit for the Atlanta Open tennis tournament this morning, having accosted Atlanta Banana reporters on a MARTA train. “Behold the great and mighty Bonecracka!” said Mr. Bonecracka, spreading his arms wide to afford reporters the best possible view of his bathrobe with images of vertebrae sewed [...]

Rumors of Chick-Fil-A Chicken Homosexuality Circulate

A shot from the recent Chicken Pride parade in Los Angeles. PHOTO: SMcGarnigle, Flickr

COLLEGE PARK–Rumors swirl today that the Chick-Fil-a corporation is inadvertently raising some homosexual chickens. Though the company’s political leanings seem to indicate that they believe homosexuality to be a matter of choice than heredity, studies indicate that a certain percentage of their chickens must certainly prefer same-sex partners. “There’s just no way that could be [...]

Confused Kennesaw Man Quips “Living In Atlanta Is The Best”

Come check out our civil war reenactment. We promise we'll have some guys on the Northern side this time.

KENNESAW–Reports of a seriously disturbed Kennesaw man claiming, “Living in Atlanta is the best” have flooded the Atlanta Banana news desk. The man, possibly affected by dementia, reportedly believes he is a resident of Atlanta. “I feel bad for the old codger,” said Elaine Blenham, an Atlantan recently back from a foray into the suburbs. [...]

OTP Day Festival Canceled Due To Traffic Delays

Ah the thrill of the open road. Feels like the thrill of abject depression.

SMYRNA — Atlanta mayor, Joaquin Snead, announced today that Atlanta’s inaugural Outside The Perimeter Day Festival (OTP Day) would be canceled due to traffic delays. “It’s unfortunate,” said Snead in a teleconference earlier this morning. The teleconference was conducted from his cell phone as he sat idle on I-75, which he deemed a “huge-ass clusterfuck [...]

We Get It! You’re On Vacation! App Now Available for iPhone & Android Devices

Here, let me take a decent photo of you and then shit it up with some of these photo filters.

ATLANTA–Narcissus Games & Software, Inc. announced on Thursday the release of their new We Get It! You’re On Vacation (WGIYOV) App for Android, iPhone and iPad devices. With simple functionality and an attractive user interface, WGIYOV allows you to share your mundane vacation photos, that are only amazing because you’re someplace other than where you [...]

Drunk Trees Target Midtown Cars

A tree after a few too many pints of water. PHOTO: dejee, Flickr

ATLANTA–Trees, tipsy after indulging in a few too many pints of water during a rain storm and out for a bit of juvenile fun, are targeting Midtown cars today, falling on them and endangering their drivers. Reporters spoke with Treebark the Awkward, a local Druid and part-time computer repair technician. “Oooh yes! The trees are [...]