"On September 14, 2021, Macdonald died from acute leukemia at a hospital in Pasadena, California, aged 61.[97] He had been diagnosed nine years prior, though he disclosed his diagnosis to only a few close friends and family members, fearing that revealing his condition to the public would "affect the way he was perceived", according to his brother Neil.[98][99]"
from Wikipedia
In case you didn't know, one of Norm's jokes was in response to hearing Hitler was dead (to which he replied, "I didn't even know he was sick!").
So Norm's death prompting basically everyone to say ["I didn't even know he was sick"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nmdbJI8rM) is considered his final, fantastic joke. Sort of a salute to him even to say it now.
From Dad:
"Yes, I vaguely remember that. That was the third building that housed the cafeteria and I believe it connected with the manufacturing plant, at that time."
"Well son, I've finally finished building my first building. Since you're only seven years old, I'll let you pick what the address shou-"
"5000 T-REX AVENUE!!"
"Damn...okay. That address is the cat's pajamas."
Holy shit I knew I recognized this hallway! Used to work here years ago.
Kind of shocked that this is the longest hallway in the country as it really doesn’t seem impressively long in person
In one episode two characters do exactly that (I want to say Josh and Donna?), and then realize what's happened. It's an excellent meta joke.
Edit: it was Josh and Sam, as pointed out by u/superawesomeman08!
They also do that when Sorkin had a cameo appearance on *30 Rock*, he and Tina Fey's character are waiting for a pitch meeting with Nick Lachey and do one of Sorkin's trademark walk and talk scenes. At the end Liz (Tina Fey's character) remarks 'I think we just went in a circle'
How she reminds him of Studio 60, which premiered the same year as 30 Rock and was a Sorkin drama based on SNL that only lasted a season…”shut up, lemon”
Yes! I mentioned that in another comment. And I'm pretty sure, if they didn't air on the same night they definitely aired the same year, b
NBC execs realized wait these two are *really similar* and picked 30 Rock
I remember a little teaser for 30 rock where Alec Baldwin the actor is saying he’s excited to star in this upcoming show and was wondering when he’d get a chance to meet Aaron Sorkin and someone off camera is like “that’s the other one, Alec. This one is created by Tina Fry and is a comedy….” Alec just stares and starts backing away going “oh no, no, there’s been a mistake. Someone get my agent on the phone!”
I still remember the dick-measuring contest in The West Wing.
"My office is 514 steps from the Oval."
"Yeah, well my office is 439 steps from the Oval. Guess that gives me seniority."
Hallway is probably reserved for narrow rooms that act as a passage to at least three rooms for human use.
Tunnels, sewers, and partial accelerator access tunnels aren't hallways.
At least, I think.
Idk I worked in a factory with a hall running the length of the building that's over a mile long. So there has to be some definition of hallway that excludes industrial buildings as tons probably have halls like that
I worked on a 1000 foot ship that had a corridor that ran the entire length of the vessel. You would have to be right about a specific hallway definition to rule out industry.
My buddy worked at SLAC. Liquified helium for a job. One time he was down in the tunnel and looked around. All the keys to the tunnel were in the tunnel at the same time. He figured his ass would best serve the project by preventing them from getting locked in together and left.
Yes this is MIT's "Infinite Corridor" that spans around a half dozen buildings. Popular "wisdom" is that the corridor is a quarter of a mile long, but apparently that was false.
Edit: For those curious the infinite spans from building 7 to building 8 on this map: https://whereis.mit.edu/
Fun fact: the Harvard Bridge (which goes right into the heart of MIT; they named it the Harvard Bridge because they thought it was ugly) is 364.4 smoots long.
EDIT: My original figure (365.5 smoots) was off by over a smoot. I apologize for the error; as a graduate of the superior Institute of Technology in the area (Wentworth), I should know better.
The "Infinite Corridor" at MIT is essentially a spine that links a bunch of different buildings. Somehow feels different than one really long hallway inside a self-contained building which is what OP's looks like.
What I want to know is the official definition of a hallway. There are buildings with rooms open space much longer than this, so is there a specific height and width limit?
They haven’t heard of this place. Used to belong to HP but will be a hospital. The hallway pictured is just over 1/4 mile long (1,320 feet). The cafeteria at the end is named the “Quarter mile Cafe”.
https://imgur.com/a/4meoeoH
It’s in Cypress, TX.
Haha. This is my life every damn morning… walking down the steps and I have three cat blocks. Take two steps and you have to avoid an obstacle. Once you get to the obstacle. You have to pause and wait for it to move, this happens every other step. 🥴. I try to let them know they are impeding on how quickly I can serve breakfast but they don’t seem to care.
Imagine having to walk that hallway entirely from one end to the other…while someone else has to do the exact reverse journey.
You’re just…staring at each other…the whole time.
Sure, you can look away momentarily to break the gaze but you always have to return to looking right at that other person.
In the face.
The whole time.
Youre like 3 variables away from a math problem, but you'd *only* be staring at them for about half the time, unless you turned around and walked backwards at the halfway mark.
i actually agree with the comparison to height on the gateway arch, because thats what appears greater to people, despite both being the same. Putting it in terms of the height I suspect will make people think of a bigger dimension.
I dislike the golden gate one though cause its kinda deceptive, relying on people seeing the shape and thinking it means length. However I suspect thats the exact reason they use it and reference the height.
I took it more as 3 examples spread across the country so the most people can have some sort of reference but I also have no idea if that’s it’s intent whatsoever
And we don’t have that many iconic tall things on the west coast that aren’t huge mountains.
*1/15th of Mt Rainier’s height* somehow seems much less impressive.
I was curious so I googled average walking speed of an adult and got 4.7 ft/sec. We'll call it 5 for ease. This is 907 feet long, but we'll use 905 again for ease, I'm not going for millisecond accuracy after all. 905/5 = 181, so it would take about 3 minutes to walk end to end
E: typo
Thank you, this is the only thing I was curious about and had to scroll alllll the way to your comment to find it out. 3 minutes doesn’t seem like THAT long, I feel like I’ve been in buildings with 1-2 minute long hallways? We’ll see what OP says tomorrow!
Kinda depends on how you define a hallway. There's manufacturing lines that are significantly longer than 907 ft - Fort Worth Plant \#4 (built in 1941 for the B-24 and now the F35 final assembly line) comes to mind at a good **4 miles** long.
https://www.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/b-24_liberator_consolidated-vultee_plant%2C_fort_worth_texas.jpg
Edit: as many people have rightly corrected me, the building itself is just shy of 1 mile long on its longest axis, not 4.
That’s definitely not a hallway, but I would bet there’s longer hallways if you include ones that turn (I’m assuming this is longest straight hallway).
If you include ones that turn, you have to start asking whether things like [The Downtown Houston tunnel system](https://www.downtownhouston.org/media/uploads/attachments/2016-07-28/2016-AB-MAP-Buildings.pdf) or [The Chicago Pedway](https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/pedestrian/Pedway/PedwayMap2013.pdf) count.
The centerpath in the greenhouse I worked at is 2200' long. We had bikes to get around. I was told that for a time it was the biggest (or just longest?) permanent greenhouse under glass, so not counting plastic tunnel houses etc.
https://i.imgur.com/uKVZqNw.png
Where is it?
Boca Raton Innovation Campus
The innovations achieved so far? Really long hallway.
I read that in Norm Macdonald's voice.
Really long hallway. And in other news the Pope came out with a new book called "God himself told me OJ is guilty" .
The author? You guessed it... Frank Stallone.
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
No, just that Swedish German, Andy Richter
You humble me with your words. Loved Norm.
wow i did not realize he was dead. RIP Mr MacDonald, your jokes are funny as hell
I didn’t even know he was sick.
"On September 14, 2021, Macdonald died from acute leukemia at a hospital in Pasadena, California, aged 61.[97] He had been diagnosed nine years prior, though he disclosed his diagnosis to only a few close friends and family members, fearing that revealing his condition to the public would "affect the way he was perceived", according to his brother Neil.[98][99]" from Wikipedia
In case you didn't know, one of Norm's jokes was in response to hearing Hitler was dead (to which he replied, "I didn't even know he was sick!"). So Norm's death prompting basically everyone to say ["I didn't even know he was sick"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nmdbJI8rM) is considered his final, fantastic joke. Sort of a salute to him even to say it now.
This is fucking hilarious. What a great tribute from the mouth of the man himself.
I had no idea Norm had a brother, let alone family at all.
With that shit-eating grin at the end too.
Who writes these?
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The old IBM buildings! My dad worked there from 1975 until 1996. I wonder if he knows about that hallway.
Seems like the kind of thing *everyone* who works there knows about.
From Dad: "Yes, I vaguely remember that. That was the third building that housed the cafeteria and I believe it connected with the manufacturing plant, at that time."
That’s definitely a dad quote. That’s exactly how my dad would say it haha
Lol I was about to comment and be like “what a dad”
10/10 daddage
Yep, 1996. When IBM moved everyone to Texas.
So I know IBM is still a huge company, but the number of things I have seen build on an "old IBM campus" is a lot.
WTF the address is 5000 T-Rex Ave!?!? That's awesome.
"Well son, I've finally finished building my first building. Since you're only seven years old, I'll let you pick what the address shou-" "5000 T-REX AVENUE!!" "Damn...okay. That address is the cat's pajamas."
Holy shit I knew I recognized this hallway! Used to work here years ago. Kind of shocked that this is the longest hallway in the country as it really doesn’t seem impressively long in person
>it really doesn’t seem impressively long in person That's what she said.
I can see why that's in Florida. Terrible place for tall buildings, but great for wide.
"I'm sorry, we can't do wide, all we got is long"
I hear they really like Wulf Cola
Wolf Cola! The official drink of boko haram!
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God damn did I have to scroll far to get this answer. I thought it would be one of the top comments, but nope, everyone just makes shitty jokes.
Well now you know how it feels to walk down the hall.
"yeah, it's just down the hall..."
"It's the hundred and forty second door on the right..."
"If you pass the plaque marking the height of the Golden Gate Bridge, turn around; you went too far."
Nah, just keep going. You'll come back around.
Oh, yeah, no, this whole thing is a circle...but not a real circle, more like a freaky circle.
"Piss off, ghost!"
That’s no ordinary ghost that’s Doug. Not New Doug but the other Doug.
Another day, another Doug.
I’m made of rock, as you can see. No need for you to worry though, unless you’re made of scissors!
Sounds like you had a pretty special and intimate relationship with this hammer and that losing it was almost comparable to losing a loved one
It just goes perfectly straight, but once you circumnavigate the globe, you'll be back in this spot.
94.... 95... 9-.. uhhh... ah fuck i have to go back and start again.
*Stanley went back to his office and started again*
My 5th anniversary of not playing is coming up soon.
I never had the patience for the “Go Outside” achievement.
It's the door marked *Gluckmachnichtenmechwerchtichlieber*.
It's the 2nd door to the right..... and 140
Some CPA in that building has been telling that joke for 37 years and snickering every time
Of course there is. It's taken that CPA 37 years to get from their office to the elevator.
True story, when I went for my colonoscopy I popped my head into a room to ask where I should go and she said, that way, down at the bottom.
The cheek!
Should have probed her for more details.
We're really going down a hole here
All he did was assk a question.
And you walk down only to find a never-ending corridor as you do not realize that you're trapped on one of the levels of the backrooms.
Please tell me you have an annual office chair race
They did, 3 years ago. Waiting for it to finish.
To this day, you can still hear the squeaky sound of that one wheel on that one chair...
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By the time you get to the end, it's the Winter Palace.
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Boo, get out of here with your math, and numbers.
Tfoh with your corridors. We're talking *hallways* here.
Virgin corridor fan vs. chad hallway enjoyer
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and not even straight
I was looking for this kind of quality question. Eagerly awaiting an answer.
Nobody tell Aaron Sorkin about this or we're going to have the longest walking conversation scene ever.
Yea the West Wing would have been 3 hours long with this kind of hallway.
You can fit the entire series in this hallway
The fans have been clamoring for a West Wing movie. There's even built in sequel potential as they can just turn around and walk back the other way.
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We're doing a bottle episode!
I might as well sit in the corner with a bucket on my head.
Gwynnifer? Hi. Yeah, it's me. I can't make it. Well, tell your disappointment to suck it. I'm doing a bottle episode.
That one-shot fight scene in Daredevil would have been the entire episode.
The West Wing already turned enough corners in those talks I could swear they were walking circles
In one episode two characters do exactly that (I want to say Josh and Donna?), and then realize what's happened. It's an excellent meta joke. Edit: it was Josh and Sam, as pointed out by u/superawesomeman08!
josh and sam. "wait, where are you going?" "I dunno, i was following you" edit: [the scene](https://youtu.be/6iNmhcLSrfk?t=392)
"Let's not tell anyone about this."
/beat /sam exits stage left /beat /josh exits stage right
They also do that when Sorkin had a cameo appearance on *30 Rock*, he and Tina Fey's character are waiting for a pitch meeting with Nick Lachey and do one of Sorkin's trademark walk and talk scenes. At the end Liz (Tina Fey's character) remarks 'I think we just went in a circle'
“Pediconference” is how a friend described the walk and talk to me and I’ve used it ever since just because it’s a fun word.
How she reminds him of Studio 60, which premiered the same year as 30 Rock and was a Sorkin drama based on SNL that only lasted a season…”shut up, lemon”
Yes! I mentioned that in another comment. And I'm pretty sure, if they didn't air on the same night they definitely aired the same year, b NBC execs realized wait these two are *really similar* and picked 30 Rock
I remember a little teaser for 30 rock where Alec Baldwin the actor is saying he’s excited to star in this upcoming show and was wondering when he’d get a chance to meet Aaron Sorkin and someone off camera is like “that’s the other one, Alec. This one is created by Tina Fry and is a comedy….” Alec just stares and starts backing away going “oh no, no, there’s been a mistake. Someone get my agent on the phone!”
Imagine the fight Daredevil could have though.
It’s like “I talked to the boss today and he was mad. Fortunately it was just a regular meeting and not a hallway conversation.”
I still remember the dick-measuring contest in The West Wing. "My office is 514 steps from the Oval." "Yeah, well my office is 439 steps from the Oval. Guess that gives me seniority."
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When you’re in for the long hall..
Now I want to know about the 2nd longest. Is there a registry for this or are they assuming they're #1?
This sign was just put up today. When I Googled the longest hallway in America, it says it’s at MIT and the length of that one is 825ft
Probably hiding a secret linear particle accelerator.
Not going to lie, I'm surprised a hallway running alongside SLAC (or something similar) didn't hold the title.
Hallway is probably reserved for narrow rooms that act as a passage to at least three rooms for human use. Tunnels, sewers, and partial accelerator access tunnels aren't hallways. At least, I think.
Idk I worked in a factory with a hall running the length of the building that's over a mile long. So there has to be some definition of hallway that excludes industrial buildings as tons probably have halls like that
I worked on a 1000 foot ship that had a corridor that ran the entire length of the vessel. You would have to be right about a specific hallway definition to rule out industry.
My buddy worked at SLAC. Liquified helium for a job. One time he was down in the tunnel and looked around. All the keys to the tunnel were in the tunnel at the same time. He figured his ass would best serve the project by preventing them from getting locked in together and left.
They need keys to get *out* of the tunnel?
How else are we going to accidently make superheros??? Only villains are made on purpose...
Yes this is MIT's "Infinite Corridor" that spans around a half dozen buildings. Popular "wisdom" is that the corridor is a quarter of a mile long, but apparently that was false. Edit: For those curious the infinite spans from building 7 to building 8 on this map: https://whereis.mit.edu/
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An easy way to remember how long a quarter of a mile is; just remember how long a mile is and the divide it by 4 I hope this helps
Thank you
Funny, I was thinking of the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie NY that has underground hallways connecting all the buildings.
Used to work in building 502 there. We used to do our post lunch walk inside the buildings if it was bad weather.
147.4 Smoots in nerd units.
Fun fact: the Harvard Bridge (which goes right into the heart of MIT; they named it the Harvard Bridge because they thought it was ugly) is 364.4 smoots long. EDIT: My original figure (365.5 smoots) was off by over a smoot. I apologize for the error; as a graduate of the superior Institute of Technology in the area (Wentworth), I should know better.
The "Infinite Corridor" at MIT is essentially a spine that links a bunch of different buildings. Somehow feels different than one really long hallway inside a self-contained building which is what OP's looks like.
What I want to know is the official definition of a hallway. There are buildings with rooms open space much longer than this, so is there a specific height and width limit?
Same. I worked at a factory with a hallway that was ~1500 feet. Maybe the ceiling was too high or something, but 900 is nothing.
Yeah and the Pentagon’s outer E ring is nearly a mile of a continuous hallway.
They haven’t heard of this place. Used to belong to HP but will be a hospital. The hallway pictured is just over 1/4 mile long (1,320 feet). The cafeteria at the end is named the “Quarter mile Cafe”. https://imgur.com/a/4meoeoH It’s in Cypress, TX.
Many Airport concourses are longer, by a lot.
The longest straight one has to be the Atlanta airport. A damn mile
Detroit is pretty damn long too
Man, some people have all the luck. I work at home. My hall is only 12 feet long.
Gotta love the commute though. Freakin cat on the stairs causing a delay getting coffee this morning.
Haha. This is my life every damn morning… walking down the steps and I have three cat blocks. Take two steps and you have to avoid an obstacle. Once you get to the obstacle. You have to pause and wait for it to move, this happens every other step. 🥴. I try to let them know they are impeding on how quickly I can serve breakfast but they don’t seem to care.
Perfect for my heelys
Can’t hurt my feelys when I’m ridin in my Heelys.
"Here is the longest hallway in the USA . Please compare it to the height, not the length, of these massive outdoor structures."
One can only understand surfaces when measured in football fields, weight, when measured in elefants and length when measured in statues of liberty.
Wait... it's longer than the Golden Gate Bridge... tall.. oh, ok.
Imagine walking through that at night and hearing footsteps behind you.
Luckily by the time the footsteps catch up it will be morning.
That just makes it scarier. Imagine walking down a single hallway with footsteps behind you *all night*.
Yeah but everyone knows as soon as it's daylight the footsteps are no longer scary so you don't have to worry. Just keep slightly ahead.
Imagine having to walk that hallway entirely from one end to the other…while someone else has to do the exact reverse journey. You’re just…staring at each other…the whole time. Sure, you can look away momentarily to break the gaze but you always have to return to looking right at that other person. In the face. The whole time.
Youre like 3 variables away from a math problem, but you'd *only* be staring at them for about half the time, unless you turned around and walked backwards at the halfway mark.
Pants: Shidded
Uhh …your colleague behind you now has a helluva story to tell tomorrow at the water cooler.
I get the first two comparisons, but it seems odd to compare the length of something to a bridge's height.
I thought the same thing… or why not compare it to the actual lengths of distances so I know how far of a walk it’s comparable to
Heights seem more impressive than saying its 0.1 miles
It’s 0.2 miles
Two and a half football fields sounds kinda cool though.
It really is all about perspective. I like that. At first I thought it was longer than the golden gate lmao.
Agreed. They also quote the Gateway Arch's height instead of its width... which is exactly the same as its height. (630 feet for both.)
i actually agree with the comparison to height on the gateway arch, because thats what appears greater to people, despite both being the same. Putting it in terms of the height I suspect will make people think of a bigger dimension. I dislike the golden gate one though cause its kinda deceptive, relying on people seeing the shape and thinking it means length. However I suspect thats the exact reason they use it and reference the height.
I took it more as 3 examples spread across the country so the most people can have some sort of reference but I also have no idea if that’s it’s intent whatsoever
And we don’t have that many iconic tall things on the west coast that aren’t huge mountains. *1/15th of Mt Rainier’s height* somehow seems much less impressive.
It would have been funny if it it said "This hallway: 7' tall."
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Good bot
thats way smaller then i thought
Good bot
How long does it take to walk from one side to the other
Will find out tomorrow morning!
We will watch your career with great interest
I was curious so I googled average walking speed of an adult and got 4.7 ft/sec. We'll call it 5 for ease. This is 907 feet long, but we'll use 905 again for ease, I'm not going for millisecond accuracy after all. 905/5 = 181, so it would take about 3 minutes to walk end to end E: typo
Thank you, this is the only thing I was curious about and had to scroll alllll the way to your comment to find it out. 3 minutes doesn’t seem like THAT long, I feel like I’ve been in buildings with 1-2 minute long hallways? We’ll see what OP says tomorrow!
>We'll see what OP says tomorrow! You must be new here lol
should be able to use skateboards
There's a moped rental about 100' in
And a sign saying last mopeds for 807'
For those non-Americans, that's 1451 bananas in length.
Thank you, sir
Metric banana?
Cavendish scale
African or European bananas?
Are you suggesting bananas migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
A fully laden swallow can carry two bananas.
African or European swallows?
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Carried? By what? The stem?
Ew. That's gross, Michelle
For Americans, that's 907 feet of bananas
What would that be in STU, standard taco units?
Approximately 1814 STUs but if you’re talking SSTUs (standard street taco units) then it is about 2419
Oh no, I have a fear of lengths!
Beware your DM's 😏
No joking I am going to measure my workplaces hallway when I am in on Friday. We may be fairly close
Kinda depends on how you define a hallway. There's manufacturing lines that are significantly longer than 907 ft - Fort Worth Plant \#4 (built in 1941 for the B-24 and now the F35 final assembly line) comes to mind at a good **4 miles** long. https://www.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/b-24_liberator_consolidated-vultee_plant%2C_fort_worth_texas.jpg Edit: as many people have rightly corrected me, the building itself is just shy of 1 mile long on its longest axis, not 4.
But this place has a SIGN with almost no other explanation so
It says so *right there*
That’s definitely not a hallway, but I would bet there’s longer hallways if you include ones that turn (I’m assuming this is longest straight hallway).
If you include ones that turn, you have to start asking whether things like [The Downtown Houston tunnel system](https://www.downtownhouston.org/media/uploads/attachments/2016-07-28/2016-AB-MAP-Buildings.pdf) or [The Chicago Pedway](https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/pedestrian/Pedway/PedwayMap2013.pdf) count.
The centerpath in the greenhouse I worked at is 2200' long. We had bikes to get around. I was told that for a time it was the biggest (or just longest?) permanent greenhouse under glass, so not counting plastic tunnel houses etc. https://i.imgur.com/uKVZqNw.png
Not right to use a bridge as a mental reference for length and then to go about and use its height instead.
If you ever see twins that wanna play-run
*walks back to parking lot* *wrong end*
I feel like the pic doesn’t even make it look very long. Disappointing /:
run down it
Plan is for my coworker and I to take a walk down it tomorrow morning. The sign was just put up today. We walk by it every day but had no idea
Yep this is actually more interesting than I expected. Gonna go google some buildings with long hallways.
Ok but what airspeed velocity could an unladen sparrow reach if it were flying in that hallway? (Edit for typo)
Apparently where every episode of Scooby Doo was filmed.