Workplace: Willie Nelson donated are first defibrillator.
My plant was once third on the list of “most square feet under a single roof.” We now have 49 acres under one roof. My plant was responsible for the largest fish kill in the history of Indiana. Roughly 117 tons of fish in the White River. I was not involved in the fish kill, but I wear a “Women want me, fish fear me” sweatshirt. Word gets around. Fish once laughed at me; now they cut and run.
The high school here has a 4th floor that no one is allowed to go to, not even teachers. I find that pretty weird.
A town a few miles from me has a steakhouse that was visited by Tim McGraw!
The TV station I work at is the only one to ever broadcast a rated XXX porno movie.
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Lovable Rogue
The exterior of my high school was used in the forgettable movie 1969.
When the cement floor was being poured in one of the warehouses where I work, a skeleton was found. It was speculated that the unfortunate soul had been buried behind what was once a turn-of-the-century tavern on the waterfront.
Not my work or school, but my hometown of Geneseo, IL had the distinction of having the highest suicide rate per capita in the late 70’s.
When I started high school, there was a greeting assembly with a whole bunch of boring speakers talking about school pride and citzenship and academia and all that crap.
Anyway, one thing I remember was the witchy vice-principal getting up and talking about how wonderful it was that a graduate of Our Esteemed High School was the first Australian to be killed overseas in WW2. They seemed extremely proud of it. “Yes, Dave Thompson, aviator with the RAAF, was the first man killed overseas in the Second World War”. I forget how he died, I think he fell out of a plane or something, right after “war were declared”. Just picture that happening to the Benny Hill Theme.
To this day I really don’t know why they brought it up. Maybe they thought it was something to which we should aspire. “When I graduate, I want to be killed in the war. Yay!”. Idiots, I swear.
:smack: that should read our first defibrillator.
My high school is the school in American Graffiti.
Ben Affleck made a terrible movie, the name of which escapes me, at my university, UC Santa Cruz. UCSC was built in 1965, and was supposedly intended to be “riot-proof”. As a result, there is no central gathering area, which is pretty unusual.
Much much much more interestingly, I did my junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus, which has a rather violent history. Hebrew U. is in East Jerusalem, the Arab side of the city. It was founded in the 1920s, and after the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, it was on the wrong side of the Green Line - in Jordan! Until 1967, the Israeli army occupied the university grounds, turning it into a military operation, complete with a giant watchtower, which still stands. Israel won back the land in 1967 in the Six Day War, and although most of the West Bank is simply Occupied Territory, East Jerusalem - including the university - was annexed, so it’s now part of Israel proper. The university was the backdrop to some very heavy fighting during the Six Day War, but since the whole place needed to be rebuilt afterwards, there isn’t any evidence of it left.
Also, there is a large botanical garden on campus, which I walked through every day to class, but rarely explored. When I finally did wander around a bit, I discovered that there are a number of tombs in the garden. The only one I remember was the fellow who brought the brass doors for the Temple was buried there.
Earlier this year, nine people were killed on the campus by a terrorist bomb. I went to school with one of them.
My workplace has the longest room in the world, our main factory floor, just at a mile long, 4 stories or so tall.
One of our buildings is tempest certified, absolutely now radio transmissions can get in our out. In fact, if the building is between you and your cell phone tower, your cell phone wont work. They tried to convert it to a prison, but they couldnt because it doesnt have windows and that would be cruel…unless your employeed here.
We were one of the first sites in the world to get 10 gig ethernet. We had it weeks before it was even aproved as a standard.
One of my coworkers is in Who’s Who in computer pioneers and is single handedly responsable for all computer people having to work weekends and nights
One time I was looking for a restroom, i open a door, walked through, and hit my head on an A12 avenger. Bet that doesnt happen to anybody else at thier work.
This one, in fact
http://www.habu2.net/a12/a12_g02.htm
From what I’ve heard, the university I’m attending was one of the first campuses to be “plagued” by streaking, and is known by some as the “Berkely of the East” for the amount of protesting that has gone on throughout the years.
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[li]Mr. Magoo graduated from here.[/li][li]Velveeta was “discovered” here (hiding in a parafin barrel, apparently).[/li][li]We tried to steal our cannon back from Princeton - and took the wrong one.[/li][li]First intercollegiate US football game (which was also probably the last time we won one).[/li][li]In 1859, all the faculty, save one, was fired. :eek:[/li][/ul]
Home town’s name means “beautiful campground” in coastal Squamish. Site of the 1st Indian treaty in the Oregon Territory.
Our newspaper (my workplace) was founded in 1841. I’d guess that, at age 161, it’s one of the oldest papers still printing in the U.S. I can’t find a definitive list though, so can’t say for sure.
Our school was built over a humongous graveyard. If you look out the windows of the classrooms, you can see gravestones peeking out from the hills behind the building. They had to excavate decomposed corpses to build the swimming pool.
Made for pretty interesting ghost stories…
Jackelope - which paper do you work for? The Commercial Appeal? I did some work for them a couple of years back.
The building that houses my cubicle used to be the chow hall when this base was built 60+ years ago. I was working here late one night, alone in the building, and I began smelling cinnamon. It started to freak me out until I realized it was the chewing gum in my slightly-opened desk drawer.
So there’s nothing special about it - it’s just an old, nasty building that should have been condemned years ago. But the siding has asbestos in it which will make demolition an expensive proposition, so the powers that be will avoid it as long as they can.
There is a massive decommisioned (allegedly 
) British military communications bunker complex beneath my office - complete with its own living quarters, telephone exchange, operations rooms and small gauge railway. It used to contain the equipment necessary to ensure contact between Britain and the US could be maintained in the event of Nuclear War.
According to some sources it also contains tunnels through which the Royal Family were to be evacuated in the event of a Nuclear attack.
Our offices are very crampt - yet for some reason they STILL declined our (the Web Team) offer to relocate into the bunker and free up some desks. 
Seeing as mine was rather local, I’ll try this next one. My school recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary, and as part of that, all of the students were assembled to watch a video address from the president congratulating us! See, we’re in Austin, and apparently some people close to the school had supported him very early in his political career, and well, we all know how good our prez is at accomodating his old Texan buddies…
The result being that we got a rather nice little speech from Dubya on how swell our school and everyone involved with it are. Yay.
LC
Did he refer to you as “allies in the war against terror”? 