Comments on: MTC Tunnels: Fess Up! http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Erick http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-15595 Erick Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:58:34 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-15595 you have no idea, i just got sent home for only KNOWING elders in my zone were down there. its pretty serious how crazy they are about making sure no one goes down there. you have no idea, i just got sent home for only KNOWING elders in my zone were down there.

its pretty serious how crazy they are about making sure no one goes down there.

]]> By: Space Chick http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2844 Space Chick Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:08:24 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2844 Amateurs. I attended a "small western vocational technical school for boys in El Paso County", which happens to be federally funded. (Two points if you can guess the real name of this institution.) Not only did it have tunnels, which likewise were supposedly off-limits and grounds for expulsion if caught, but you could use them to get to any building in the complex. Including the gym, which had an Olympic-size pool with diving towers, and a crash pit filled with foam cubes to cushion falls in gymnastics. As well as golf carts hidden at selected entrances. Have I mentioned that deer don't react quickly enough when woken up by a golf cart chasing them around the athletic fields? We gained entrance using a knife blade to slide the door latch open. Tried to make it to the observatory but got lost. Saw lots of empty 5 gallon cans intended for water storage (instant water--just add water). And graffiti of course. I'd say it's an eternal principle, not just a post-1990 invention. You young punks always think you invented the cool stuff when it really existed long before you came along! Amateurs.

I attended a “small western vocational technical school for boys in El Paso County”, which happens to be federally funded. (Two points if you can guess the real name of this institution.) Not only did it have tunnels, which likewise were supposedly off-limits and grounds for expulsion if caught, but you could use them to get to any building in the complex. Including the gym, which had an Olympic-size pool with diving towers, and a crash pit filled with foam cubes to cushion falls in gymnastics. As well as golf carts hidden at selected entrances. Have I mentioned that deer don’t react quickly enough when woken up by a golf cart chasing them around the athletic fields?

We gained entrance using a knife blade to slide the door latch open. Tried to make it to the observatory but got lost. Saw lots of empty 5 gallon cans intended for water storage (instant water–just add water). And graffiti of course. I’d say it’s an eternal principle, not just a post-1990 invention. You young punks always think you invented the cool stuff when it really existed long before you came along!

]]> By: David J http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2843 David J Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:27:35 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2843 <i>plug up the drains and in 15-20 minutes the water would be almot to the top of the lip</i> RFLMAO! Boys will be boys, man. We did the same thing! Here's a question: is male humor timeless? I mean, have men always thought, throughout the aeons of time, thought this sort of crap was funny? I never laughed so hard and so often as I did the two months I was in the MTC. My district was just 12 guys, 10 of which could have passed off as professional comedians. We tried everything short of the tunnels, cuz we never heard of them. plug up the drains and in 15-20 minutes the water would be almot to the top of the lip

RFLMAO! Boys will be boys, man. We did the same thing!

Here’s a question: is male humor timeless? I mean, have men always thought, throughout the aeons of time, thought this sort of crap was funny?

I never laughed so hard and so often as I did the two months I was in the MTC. My district was just 12 guys, 10 of which could have passed off as professional comedians. We tried everything short of the tunnels, cuz we never heard of them.

]]> By: John C. http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2842 John C. Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:12:51 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2842 It is just another way in which the MTC is like boot camp. Break you down to build you up. It is just another way in which the MTC is like boot camp. Break you down to build you up.

]]> By: D. Fletcher http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2841 D. Fletcher Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:49:19 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2841 One of the things that really annoyed me in the Mission Home in SLC (1977) were the communal showers. Giant rooms with literally hundreds of boys showering at the same time. Ok, I'm gay, but I bet I wasn't the only one uncomfortable in there. It's a bit... dehumanizing. One of the things that really annoyed me in the Mission Home in SLC (1977) were the communal showers. Giant rooms with literally hundreds of boys showering at the same time.

Ok, I’m gay, but I bet I wasn’t the only one uncomfortable in there. It’s a bit… dehumanizing.

]]> By: jjohnsen http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2840 jjohnsen Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:02:48 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2840 "Shower bowling?" This may be what he's talking about. In the building my district lived, the group showers had a 6 inch lip separating them from the rest of the bathroom. You could plug up the drains and in 15-20 minutes the water would be almot to the top of the lip. It was then easy to slide around, which probably led to this guy throwing himself at other people like a bowling ball. “Shower bowling?”
This may be what he’s talking about. In the building my district lived, the group showers had a 6 inch lip separating them from the rest of the bathroom. You could plug up the drains and in 15-20 minutes the water would be almot to the top of the lip. It was then easy to slide around, which probably led to this guy throwing himself at other people like a bowling ball.

]]> By: David J http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2839 David J Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:10:50 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2839 Rusty, Sorry dude, I was there in the summer of '93 and it never came up. This is the first I've heard of it too. But I've heard a lot of Utah has secret tunnels and the like, even in SLC and stuff. Makes us look like cultish paranoid nuclear fall-out freaks if you ask me. Rusty,

Sorry dude, I was there in the summer of ‘93 and it never came up. This is the first I’ve heard of it too.

But I’ve heard a lot of Utah has secret tunnels and the like, even in SLC and stuff. Makes us look like cultish paranoid nuclear fall-out freaks if you ask me.

]]> By: Speaking Up http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2838 Speaking Up Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:35:52 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2838 Okay... lets see the map of the tunnels! Plus where are the pictures? Okay… lets see the map of the tunnels! Plus where are the pictures?

]]> By: D. Fletcher http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2837 D. Fletcher Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:03:50 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2837 Shower bowling? Shower bowling?

]]> By: Rusty http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/02/15/mtc-tunnels-fess-up/#comment-2836 Rusty Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:51:52 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=237#comment-2836 I am actually quite surprised so many people didn't know about them and am even more surprised that not more people have explored them. I was there in the late summer of 1996 and it seemed that EVERYONE knew about them. I don't remember an edict from the MTC president suggesting we'd get sent home if we went in them (Ned), but I seem to remember thinking I'd get in trouble. Oh, and a guy in my district liked to play shower bowling (he was the ball). Not pleasant for anyone. Mark N, Lacking no doubt, you probably didn't even have the Spirit with you on the mission, huh? The tunnels have a major impact on those kinds of things :) I am actually quite surprised so many people didn’t know about them and am even more surprised that not more people have explored them. I was there in the late summer of 1996 and it seemed that EVERYONE knew about them. I don’t remember an edict from the MTC president suggesting we’d get sent home if we went in them (Ned), but I seem to remember thinking I’d get in trouble.

Oh, and a guy in my district liked to play shower bowling (he was the ball). Not pleasant for anyone.

Mark N,
Lacking no doubt, you probably didn’t even have the Spirit with you on the mission, huh? The tunnels have a major impact on those kinds of things :)

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