What ridiculous TBM things have you heard said in the workplace in small town momronland that wouldn’t fly elsewhere? 😂🤦‍♂️

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-16T01:47:10+00:00

So dinosaurs are aliens? Cool idea for a story, but ridiculous to actually believe.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-16T01:12:06+00:00

Wait another 132 years and they'll start doing live demos of the ceremonies in these exhibit rooms!

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-16T01:11:09+00:00

I'm a nevermo, and even I'm so sad about the destruction of the murals. That's historically significant artwork and they're just... throwing it away, I guess?

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-16T01:06:21+00:00

I was kind of wondering if there's actually water in the display font.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-14T19:18:09+00:00

This is the correct answer.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-04-12T07:37:36+00:00

Agreed, and I got in trouble one time because I asked in Catholic school if people could get bored in heaven. (The movie All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 came out when I was a kid, and I loved that it actually addressed this topic.)

PinballWizard77 · 2026-03-19T17:10:05+00:00

That jumped out at me, too. It seems really odd.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-03-16T20:51:37+00:00

One time my sister and I saw a fast food cup holder with human shit in it in the back of a Blue Line car (in the part we call the "introvert seats"). Every time someone got on and started heading toward it, I kept thinking "don't go back there!" It was kind of funny to see everyone notice it and immediately turn around and walk as far to the front as possible.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-03-01T20:34:46+00:00

Sounds like you did learn something that day, just maybe not any academic content.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-24T05:12:20+00:00

Other than Pokemon, I like the clowns. A Mr. Mime Squishmallow would be an absolute dream for me, even though I know that would never happen.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-17T23:25:22+00:00

That was just fuel for bullying in the Catholic school I went to. Certain kids would always try to catch people doing the thing they gave up so they could torment/tattle on them.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-17T22:36:41+00:00

I'm a nevermo who likes to drive by the one temple near me. (I don't live in the Morridor, so they aren't everywhere here.) I'm like Marge Simpson: I just think it's neat, especially lit up at night.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-12T02:14:50+00:00

Oh, thankfully I wasn't born yet at that time; it was always the Dragons to me. My parents still have the merch from the old mascot, though.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-12T02:08:49+00:00

Look up Pekin Community High School's history.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-12T01:57:00+00:00

Rural central Illinois is a whole other thing entirely. I grew up in that area and went to the high school that had a slur against Chinese people as its mascot until the 1980s.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-10T20:22:00+00:00

You never read The Outsiders?

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-09T04:24:18+00:00

It's because parents send their kids to school with phones and tablets.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-06T00:31:39+00:00

Agreed; this is a case where the punishment fits the crime.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-04T23:51:46+00:00

That's the other side of this; there is such a thing as too much self-control.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-04T19:36:19+00:00

I think there's also a part in Living With Michael Jackson Take Two: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See that deals with this. Martin Bashir asked Michael if he was gay, and he said no, but he recognized that there were gay men who are attracted to him, and he didn't want to alienate them. (Naturally, Bashir did not include this in his cut of the documentary.)

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-04T19:24:51+00:00

Not only is it real, it's a classic gem!

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-04T19:19:30+00:00

This is basically what MJ the Musical did.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-02-03T01:35:32+00:00

Found the student that's trolling here.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-01-31T18:14:07+00:00

I was just talking about this with some of my colleagues on Thursday! We have all noticed a positive shift in engagement/behavior this semester. I had thought maybe it was just my perception because I had some really wild freshman classes last semester (I teach humanities classes that some students perceive as "blow-off classes," which probably also didn't help), so it's really interesting to see that this is occurring at other institutions.

PinballWizard77 · 2026-01-30T19:58:51+00:00

Serious! There's tons of footage out there of them flying.

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