# Weird Facts About Your School or Workplace **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071 "2002-12-11T19:25:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/1 "2002-12-11T19:25:36Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/2 "2002-12-11T19:30:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/3 "2002-12-11T19:46:03Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/4 "2002-12-11T19:47:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/5 "2002-12-11T20:14:05Z")
My old high school had a bomb shelter and rifle towers. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/6 "2002-12-11T20:22:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/7 "2002-12-11T21:54:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/8 "2002-12-11T21:57:04Z")
My office building used to be owned by Leona Helmsley. Only several years and several million dollars have made it habitable. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/9 "2002-12-11T21:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by False\_God \* > \*\*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. \*\* **False\_God** , you’re not in the Pentagon, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/10 "2002-12-11T22:00:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/11 "2002-12-11T22:07:31Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/12 "2002-12-11T22:31:47Z")
**My workplace rocks!** No, [seriously](http://www.worldoil.com/infocenter/RIG_DETAIL.asp?A=NAMETODETAIL&RIG_ID=492). When a wave hits, we sway from side to side ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/13 "2002-12-11T22:39:21Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/14 "2002-12-11T23:52:31Z")
Al Gore teaches at my school. \ ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/15 "2002-12-12T00:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\ ***False\_God** , you’re not in the Pentagon, are you? \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/16 "2002-12-12T00:54:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/17 "2002-12-12T01:10:35Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/18 "2002-12-12T01:29:58Z")
The Son of Sam used to work up here, _waaaaaaay_ back when. Yes, that Son of Sam. Tripler Weird, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/19 "2002-12-12T02:03:56Z")
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:: ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071/20 "2002-12-12T02:21:02Z")
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). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-facts-about-your-school-or-workplace/142071.md?page=2)