Did you ever send a mouse to college?

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1. I can’t say this was something I did, and I don’t know anyone who did.

2. i thought maybe i was having a stroke while reading this lol. never heard of it but wow! https://www.kindertrauma.com/traumafessions-reader-eric-mcdade-on-the-send-a-mouse-to-college-fund/

3. New one by me.

4. This was not a thing in my late-90s elementary school experience.

5. I’ve never heard of this, but the mental image cracks me up.

6. Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball.

   And no.

7. Huh, had to Google that one. Had never heard of it.

   My department killed a lot of mice where I worked after college.

   My research particularly was human cell culture and human tissue samples so not so many mice died for me.

   Other labs did huge mice and rat studies. Hundreds or thousands of mice.

8. We did it in my elementary school. The homeroom that raised the most money got a pizza party. My room won in 3rd grade, 1977. Nobody told us what happened to the mice. I have a feeling they didn’t get any pizza.

9. In my near 50 years I had never heard of such a thing, not until this moment.

10. … what?

11. Never heard of it. Wow.

12. Wow that’s crazy… I’ll have to ask my parents about that one lol, not to make you feel old but I wasn’t in elementary school until the late 2000s/early 2010s

13. Something triggered this long recessed memory. Grew up in NE Ohio, by the way. It was a common fundraiser across the schools in our region, for sure.

14. So I never sent a mouse to college, but like many children of the 80s I *did* collect pull tabs from soda cans that were allegedly used for kidney dialysis machines. Only as an adult did I find out that there is nothing special about the metal of soda can tabs that makes them useful for kidney dialysis machines.

15. I have never heard of this.

16. I guess that would depend on if you think the Tax Department is a gang.

17. No, I bought a new input device for my college laptop.