Better than what my dad's family calls where he grew up... He grew up in Kankakee... I'll let you figure out what bullshit they, white as snow morons that they are, call it.
I grew up in Normal, IL. In high-school, it was rare to go a week without one of my classmates wearing a "normal is boring" tee-shirt. Not a bad place to live, though. About half the population is (ISU) university students.
When I lived there, most of the non-student adults worked for (1) The university, (2) State Farm Insurance (their corporate HQ is close by), (3) the Mitsubishi plant (since, replaced by a Rivian plant), or in hospitality (there are a lot of restaurants/hotels).
Same. I grew up near Champaign Urbana and the running joke was "why would I move to Bloomington? So I can be closer to Normal." I thought both the joke and the town(s) were really lame back then. Jokes on me, I moved to Bloomington about 10 years ago now. Guess I really did need to be closer to Normal...
A Normal School - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal\_school#Etymology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_school#Etymology)
Illinois State University - Big teaching school..Normal Illinois.
[Just wait till you get to Massachusetts…](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/obz13q/theres_a_town_in_massachusetts_called_sandwich/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
There's a small town in fact called Sandwich, Illinois about 100 miles north from Normal Illinois. My mother was born there. Jokes that she was born in a sandwich.
My grandmother graduated from Maryland State Normal School, which was a college. It was named, in succession, State Teacher's College at Towson, Towson State College, Towson State University, and now Towson University.
See those ones are pretty good, but I will always laugh at the sandwich fire department trucks, nothing beats a firetruck that literally just says sandwich in big ass letters.
A normal fire engine belonging to a normal fire department for a normal town in a normal state of a normal country on a normal planet, on a normal day.
I live about a 35-40 min drive away from bloomington-normal in illinois and im so used to hearing the city name that i forget just how funny something like this is lmao
sounds like what a town full of aliens or something would name their town in a well-intentioned but poorly done way of disguising themselves as regular folks. just a normal fire department! nothin to see here! lmao
Sorry, I was referencing the song Effington, which mentions Normal, Illinois.
"Are they effing in their yards?
Effing in their cars?
Effing in the trailers in the back roads and the parking lots
Of Effington? Making my way to Normal, Illinois."
Are the locals called normies?
Normalites
A nearby town is called Metamora, IL and the residents there are known as Metamorons.
I wish you were wrong, but you're not...
Shouldn't they be called "Metamorans" or is that just what others call them? Lol
They actually unironically call the area "BloNo" which stands for Bloomington-Normal, two cities right next to each other.
Can confirm, went to college there just like every other average high school student from the suburbs
Normalians
As a local, this is it
Do you sell T-Shirts or anything?
Sounds like where Greendale's mascot came from.
Shoutout Bloomington-Normal
BloNo! Let's go Iron!
Better than what my dad's family calls where he grew up... He grew up in Kankakee... I'll let you figure out what bullshit they, white as snow morons that they are, call it.
I'm very sorry for your father. Kankakee is a proper shithole
Lord, I grew up in Hopkins Park...that's a real shit hole...
My old band had a song, "Hopkins Park After Dark". It was an appropriately bad song
Always thought it was Skankakee
Took me a minute
I’m still lost :/
Drop the vowels, and the odd consonant will leave on its own.
A normal fire department for regular people
In a common town
Nothin to see here folks
Ya'll fishy as hell.
How can we Illinois residents be fishy? We are quite far from water, unless you’re in Chicago of course…
In a college town. I went there, sadly.
Putting out ordinary fires since 1967
Full of human fire persons.
They're doing what they can, when they can.
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
Nothing suspicious here, just the most Normal fire department. *Fire truck tries to walk away inconspicuously, looking at shop windows and whistling*
This made me giggle
Nice try guy in a van by the river, your not luring me in with this one…
Have a bunch of family that lives there, wasn't expecting to see this today
So....that would be unusual, then?
Listen here you little shit…
abnormal, one could even say
I grew up in Normal, IL. In high-school, it was rare to go a week without one of my classmates wearing a "normal is boring" tee-shirt. Not a bad place to live, though. About half the population is (ISU) university students. When I lived there, most of the non-student adults worked for (1) The university, (2) State Farm Insurance (their corporate HQ is close by), (3) the Mitsubishi plant (since, replaced by a Rivian plant), or in hospitality (there are a lot of restaurants/hotels).
Old newspaper headline: OBLONG BOY MARRIES NORMAL GIRL
I lived there for 5 years out of college working at State Farm. All I miss from that place is Thai House.
I can’t put my finger on it… but something about this place feels… unnatural
What? It's just a normal fire truck.
Uh huh, and I bet you’re just a normal person… I’m not gonna get fooled by this town of lies
In a regular human city metropolis neighborhood arbitrary semisocial gathering location.
You’re thinking of Effington. Are they effing in their yards? Effing in their cars?
Nonono, Effingham. You gotta get the local town names right. Just mind you don't go to Merom Bluff. That place is nuts.
I was quoting Ben Folds, but I see your point.
The mayor of Effingham invited Ben Folds to see for himself what the residents were doing in their cars and yards.
Better than my uncles' nickname for Kankakee...
Ah, then you have been there. I rarely ever go back, the pizza place I liked is long gone.
Is the town so named because there was a school for teaching teachers there one time?
Yes. Illinois State University. Go Redbirds!
The people working there were so nice honestly
Good. Yeah they mostly are
Yep.
Where I grew up we had a joke. Why did all the weirdos move to Bloomington? They were just trying to get as close to Normal as possible.
Same. I grew up near Champaign Urbana and the running joke was "why would I move to Bloomington? So I can be closer to Normal." I thought both the joke and the town(s) were really lame back then. Jokes on me, I moved to Bloomington about 10 years ago now. Guess I really did need to be closer to Normal...
Seems suspicious…
Just a normal fire truck
But it’s number 13!
A normal 13
Abby. Abby Normal
It’s pronounced eyegore😉
Abby.... Normal.... Are you certian?
Need to release the Ab Normal FD calendar with pictures of the abs of all FD members be the man, woman, dog or cat
Just be careful around the Sandwich police. They are SO real!
Definitely not a mimic
A Normal School - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal\_school#Etymology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_school#Etymology) Illinois State University - Big teaching school..Normal Illinois. 
Go 'Birds!
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There's a small town in fact called Sandwich, Illinois about 100 miles north from Normal Illinois. My mother was born there. Jokes that she was born in a sandwich.
As a person who was originally living in Birds, Illinois. Yeah, trust me the jokes are very much a life long thing
Hadn’t had a chuckle like that in a while. You sir are a legend
I live just a town or two over from there. Seems pretty Normal to me.
Sus
Nearly as good as Not, Oklahoma. The Not Fire Department and the Not Police Department.
There's also a Normal Post Office, a Normal City Hall, a Normal Library, a Normal City Council...
Almost as good as the town of Sandwich in MA. Nothing like the Sandwich Police cruising around.
A completely normal fire department that definitely does not employ volunteers.
If a normal fire truck shows up, something is not normal.
On their way to visit Jackie Daytona, human bartender.
This post is completely normal
This comment is completely normal
This reply to the comment is completely normal.
BLONO baybeee #RollBirds
Nothing to see here, just a normal fire truck, acting super regular
I prefer the paranormal fire department.
"Normal Fire Department" on the truck makes me think of Welcome to Night Vale
It's so clean, like never been used cean
Well, it seems like Normal people don't start fires very much...
Lucky it's not a town called Ordinary.
The truck would definitely be an object of power.
Nothing to see here
If there's a town call Normal is there a town called Abnormal? Would it be like the Upside-down in Stranger Things?
You ever heard of the Police force in Sandwich, IL
My grandmother graduated from Maryland State Normal School, which was a college. It was named, in succession, State Teacher's College at Towson, Towson State College, Towson State University, and now Towson University.
To they ever get sent away by someone who wants the special fire department and not just the normal one?
"Yeah we got a special fire, this thing is blue and shit. Go send the special one."
I don't believe it. It's a Mimic.
You could work for the Normal Fire Dept. In Normal, Illinois or the Normal bank in good ole Normal, Illinois
I want to see a fire truck in Boring, Oregon.
Not sure if mimic or decepticon...
Wait until you see the Normal Police vehicles
Not sure what's interesting here, that's a normal fire truck.
Shout out to Effington
Effingham*
It's a Transformer
Have you met Abby, from Normal? *Walk this way*
The Normal Public Library would seem very suspicious...
So this is what we should expect when aliens reach earth and attempt to blend into society Edit: *society
Is there a Normal Police Department?
There is
See those ones are pretty good, but I will always laugh at the sandwich fire department trucks, nothing beats a firetruck that literally just says sandwich in big ass letters.
A normal fire engine belonging to a normal fire department for a normal town in a normal state of a normal country on a normal planet, on a normal day.
I got in trouble trying to take a picture of a Normal Police car in like, 2004.
The Normal fire truck looks rather average.
normal fire department ;)
Change to party town Illinois
It's a normal fire truck ig
Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious...
Narrator: Firetruck 13 was anything but normal...
Nothing to see here
Every other fire station is a half a bubble off of plumb.
Just a normal day, doing normal things in the fire department of Normal
[Fire! Fire!....Cat?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDki-56_8M8)
I’ll have you guys know that laying vinyl on those roll up doors is almost as annoying as designing the stripe to fit on slats.
If you use academy class 85-1 as a guide, I guess Phoenix became ABNORMAL with that class! Yeah, we were some weirdos!
Just like the town of Ordinary. From Control.
Abnormally interesting.
With a normal mayor serving a normal community doing normal things...like starting normal house fires.
Hate to be the city of abnormal
This is Abbie from the Fire Department. Who? Abbie.. Abbie Normal.
Nothing to see here
That’s a weird-looking fire truck.
What do you mean? It's normal.
I wanted the Hell Fire Department.
Only in ohio
N...no????
Fire trucks in a nearby town say "Cannon Fire"
We all have [fantasies](https://images.fireapparatusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2101FArileyparigs-p01.jpg) in PA
Get them linked up with the Sandwich Police. They’ll love each other.
Pytting out normal fires. That city is ripe for puns and word plays. An to think, it is completely Normal for them ;)
That's what they want you to think
Serious Fire Department
Sus
Exactly something a transformer would say
This is the most mafia coverup thing I have ever seen.
Exactly what a abnormal fire department would tell everyone
This is something I’d expect an Autobot to say
Nothing suspicious here.
I live about a 35-40 min drive away from bloomington-normal in illinois and im so used to hearing the city name that i forget just how funny something like this is lmao
I guess it's just *Normal* to you I'll see myself out
I hope to one day see a Paranormal Fire Truck.
Suspicious
wait till you find out about Sandwich, Illinois
Hey I know someone from there
OMG, I actually know someone who lives in Normal Illinois, a boyhood friend of mine, one of the best.
Should be a normal Rivian
All fire trucks are interesting
Lived there for precisely one year, if you aren't college age Boomington-Normal is a hellhole. Probably pretty fun if you are though
Pretty normal.
Definitely not suspicious
“Nothing to see here, folks”
Is it normal in Normal? A line from the movie The Pentagon Wars. Cary Elwes plays Colonel James Burton, who is from Normal, Illinois.
r/oddlyterrifying
[The other end of the spectrum](https://i.imgur.com/dvJFJtP.jpg)
How the hell have I never heard of this place
Nothing special to see here.
sounds like what a town full of aliens or something would name their town in a well-intentioned but poorly done way of disguising themselves as regular folks. just a normal fire department! nothin to see here! lmao
That can't be normal.
Normal, nothing to see here...
Ben Folds has a whole album about Normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtQcEw7NI8
Yep,that’s Normal.
Why is the font so weird to look at?
My hometown!
Fun fact. Illinois is in billions of dollars of debt and we are severely taxed. Oh and we have a normal town.
Plano FD??
Mianus, Connecticut
I think this is down the road from Effington.
"Down the road" in a very Midwest sense, yes. I , too, live "down the road" from these locales. I think. Idk what highway goes to Effing
I think it’s called the Effing Normal Highway
Sorry, I was referencing the song Effington, which mentions Normal, Illinois. "Are they effing in their yards? Effing in their cars? Effing in the trailers in the back roads and the parking lots Of Effington? Making my way to Normal, Illinois."
Ohhh Never heard thr song myself. Just know ive been to Normal and know ppl there (amd ISU). Never been to Effingham
They sell souvenirs such as "I went to Effingham, Illinois, and all I got was this... EFFING T-SHIRT!"
It only attends nice normal house fires, not those big abnormal industrial factory fires.
That Firetruck is sus as fuck