Weird Facts About Your School or Workplace

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
61

My high school was the school written about in the 1970s book Whatever Happened To The Class of '65 co-written by talk show host Michael Medved.

Also when I was attending, a film company rented the football field to shoot some scenes for their “R” rated movie The Cheerleaders. We all hung around the field, hoping to catch a little skin…Alas, it was not to be…

You see the exterior of our school in a lot of movies and TV shows.

Oh yes, and Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles is a member of my graduating class. as well as Kiki Vandeweghe, general manager of the Denver Nuggets.

62

My elementary school (grades 1 - 8) closed.
My high school (grades 9 - 12) closed.
My college (B.A., Liberal Arts degrees) has closed.

There are probably no records that I actrually attended school anywhere in the U.S. after kindergarten.
(Oh, and after I left elementary, but before it was closed, Madonna went to school there from first to sixth or eighth grades.)

63

Nothing as nifty as most of the above, but Willamette University, in quiet Salem, Oregon, was established in 1843, and is billed as “the oldest college west of the Mississippi.” Its mascot was the bearcat.

64

My boss’s first job, and current hobby:

http://www.matsumotoya.com/RAJAS/rajastop.html (it’s in Japanese, but has links in English)

I haven’t found any of their albums in the stores, but apparently they’re releasing a new one this month.

65

The corner of the street where I work was in The Matrix.

One of our models was sadly killed in the Bali bombing earlier this year. We have respectfully removed her pictures from the site, not only in consideration of her and her family, but also because she had become somewhat of a friend of ours.

66

Same employer, different location. The largest single building in the world in term of cubic footage, the Boeing Everett, Washington assembly plant. Using only about half the floor space the building holds 8 747s, 10 767s, and 9 777s in various levels of completion. And the footprint of the building can hold 7 New Orleans Superdomes.

67

Interesting facts about the place I worked this summer?

Try http://www.metrodemontreal.com .

68

Wher I work at was built on top of an Indian burial ground.The Indian ghost get blamed all the time for lights that do not function and phones that are dead.

69

I work at a television station with lots of fancy equipment and wires and all that jazz.

None of our engineers have engineering degrees. I find that funny.

70

<i>Monkeyshines</i> was filmed, at least in part, where I went to college.

71

My college was designed by a guy who designs PRSIONS! 2 state senators took bribes during its construction!

72

They do a lot of film shoots at my old high school, but I haven’t seen any of the films/shows. It’s one of very few older high schools in L.A. whose original buildings haven’t all been replaced by plain, ugly, modern buildings. So producers like it because it still has a classic “high-school-y” look.

73

Two weirdnesses for schools…Rod Serling went to my high school and Andy Kaufman was a classmate of mine at Graham Jr. College. As for work, well, the usual ad agency silliness.

74

My hometown is the home to the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition, the most important Rodeo on the circuit, save for the NFR.

My new home is Havre de Grace, MD. It was founded by Maj. Gen. Lafayette in 1785, and named such because it reminded him of Le Havre, France. It missed out becoming our nation’s capital, by one vote. During the war of 1812, British showed up after burning down the White House. The townspeople fled when the British arrived, but Lt. John O’Neill stayed, and single-handedly defended the town. He was wounded, captured, and imprisoned on the British ship Maidstone. The town was sacked and burned, with only two houses and the Episcopal Church spared. O’Neill’s fifteen year old daughter, Matilda, pleaded with the Admiral of the Fleet for her father’s life. Admiral Cockburn was so impressed by the girl’s bravery that he released O’Neill unharmed and rewarded Matilda by giving her his gold snuff box and sword.

75

Went to HS in the 70’s in New Jersey. They had a smoking lounge for students. You were supposed to get a parental permission slip to use it, but I never did.

76

If you’ve watched the TV show “ER”, you’ve probably seen a scene shot outside in the area where the ambulances drive up to bring patients into the hospital, and sometimes an elevated train will rumble by on the track running immediately above this area. The place where I worked until this summer, before my current job, is where those scenes are filmed.

77

If you’re thinking of Glory Daze, I worked on that. (The working title was Cruz.)

78

Well I talked about Georgia Tech earlier, let me tell you a little more about Tech and then some about where I work, Universal Studios Florida.

First Tech:

Tech has only 90,000 living Alumni around the world.

Our guy to girl ratio is 80/20 - pitifully low. Yet we graduate more female engineers than any other university in the nation.

The exterior of our library was used for some filming in the movie Road Trip.

Tech tower, a landmark in the city of Atlanta, was at one time the tallest building in Atlanta. Also, as is the sport for Tech students, to try and steal a T from the "Tech"s which surround the tower, it is now equipped with some of the highest security on campus.

Georgia Tech is home to the second fastest ethernet in the United States, behind only the Pentagon. Being the southeastern hub for email it sort of has to be fast.

Now on to Universal:

Universal Studios (the whole company, not just Florida) was started in a chicken farm in California (before Big Brother Disney was founded). At the farm the founder filmed short movies and offered for people to come watch them being made for only a small amount of money, I think a nickel or quarter, and he also offered them a free lunch with admission. The lunch of course was, as you guessed, chicken.

Universal is currently a subsidiary of the french corporation Vivendi, which is floundering in debt. So it is unlikely that will remain for long.

Michael Jackson came through the park a few years ago, he was supposed to come in costume to remain from the mobs which would get him. Well he came in plain clothes without any sort of secrecy and a riot broke out for a short time.

Stephen Spieldberg is and was a very big name with Islands of Adventure, he is known for bringing his kids and their friends to the island. When they go on Jurassic Park he will ride with them up until the final drop - at which point the ride will be E-stopped and everything will shut down so he can get off and not go down the big drop. After he is off, they will resume the ride and he will rejoin the others at the end.

Universal Florida has the largest cement parking garage in the world encompassing over 1 million square feet on 5 stories.

And that’s all I can think of.

79

My workplace was once (maybe still is) a target in the event of a nuclear war.

http://www.webpal.org/webpal/d_resources/states/wv.htm

80

All the Enron civil and criminal trials are in our courthouse.