Every place has some, right? Give em all or just the best ones.
My favorite at ours is that our receptionist wrote the Miller Light “True to Texas” song. Those of you who live around here have come to know and loathe that, I’m sure
What’re yours?
LC
My current workplace and some coworkers will be appearing with Denzel Washington in an upcoming flick he directed, the name of which I’m too lazy to look up right now. He needed some vintage barracks buildings and that’s all we’ve got here.
My high school was on the site of an 18th-century plantation where there was a slave rebellion; the slaves rose up and killed the master. The high school was named after him!
My old primary school was built over a WW2 military dump. People were always finding old bullets. The assembaly hall was built over a huge bomb crater that had been filled in with dirt and concrete.
My old high school had a bomb shelter and rifle towers.
My office, well, the main office anyway; has color-coded corridors because Henry Kissinger got lost too many times and blew his stack.
We have over three hundred bathrooms, two cafeterias, three banks, three newsstands run by legally blind vendors, two “restaurants”, three gift shops, five auditoriums and over ten miles of hallway.
I work in a psychiatric hospital. Weirdness abounds in this place.
My high school was in a “Hootie and the Blowfish” video. (Time.) If you watch closely, you’ll see the sign that says “Home of the Razorbacks”. Too bad it’s a middle school now.
My office building used to be owned by Leona Helmsley. Only several years and several million dollars have made it habitable.
False_God, you’re not in the Pentagon, are you?
My offices are built on the site of the old Tivoli Hotel, which was rushed to completion in order to host Teddy Roosevelt’s visit to the Panama Canal.
School: Jane Austen went to my school.
Work: How many people do you think are needed to take all the 999 ambulance calls in the whole of the county of Berkshire (which encompases about 15 hospitals in Reading, Slough and several other major towns)?
Five. There are on average five emergency call handlers on duty at any one time. Not many, is it?
My workplace rocks! No, seriously. When a wave hits, we sway from side to side
My junior school (Castle View County Combined School, Slough, UK) was built next to a military research center that never appeared on printed maps of the area. Don’t no if that explains the way I am though.
Cheers, Keithy
Al Gore teaches at my school.
<yawn>
US Department of State, Harry S Truman Building. I spend a fair amount of time at the “world’s largest wind tunnel”, though.
The Pentagon has two hospitals, more parking, and more corridors. But they only have one elevator, we have lots.
My town was the site for the filming of a Nappy Roots video. They might have my school in there somewhere, I don’t know; I’ve never seen the video.
My high school had been the site for filming many tv shows and movies. While I was going there, Room 222 was being filmed after school.
Others:
Mr. Novak” in the early 1960’s, “Lucas Tanner” and “Grease” in the 70’s, the 80’s: “Cheers,” the remake of “Splendor in the Grass,” and “Zapped” a campus comedy. “Bachelor Party,” “Pretty in Pink”, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” The original “Nightmare on Elm Street”.
In the 80’s, a teen soap opera, “Tribes’”. In the 90’s: “The Story Lady,” “Like Father, Like Son.” “Wonder Years” and “Who’s the Boss”, “Boy Meets World.” In 1997, “Grosse Point Blank". In 2000, “Boston Public”.
The rock group Van Halen staged their “Hot for Teacher” video in the library.
In 1995, Michael Jordan played basketball in the gym as part of the animated/live action comedy “Space Jam.”
The Son of Sam used to work up here, waaaaaaay back when.
Yes, that Son of Sam.
Tripler
Weird, ain’t it?
My high school was sorta in There’s Something About Mary. They kept the name, but used some school in FL in the movie though.
And my college’s library was sinking because, when they built it, they forgot to take into account the weight of the books.
::ducks and runs::
A teacher at my school posed in playboy about 14 years ago (now she’s a hardcore born-again Christian).
My elementary school was named after a Fort neaby which was the source of many bizzare ghost stories (I actually happened to see something on it on the History Channel a while back).