+1 for the Ayn Rand reference.

ms taggart is impressed with the large phaelic symbol.

/rand fan
//dont let the dam city council change the plans

I thought America's largest target was Rosie O'Donnell.

meh. There's a new building going up in Chicago that will be taller than either one. The last number I heard is 2,000 feet, and it looks like a giant steel dildo.

Chicago Spire (pops)

Lundah: Chicago Spire (pops)

The power of FlashBlock thwarted your feeble rickroll!

I'm sure it'll still beat the local Wal-Mart. Oh, not that kind of Target

/was confused by your Unnecessary Capitalization, subby

Genta: ms taggart is impressed with the large phaelic symbol.

/rand fan
//dont let the dam city council change the plans

You mean Ms. Francon.

Nabb1: I thought America's largest target was Rosie O'Donnell.

Biggest yes, but unfortunately not a target. I wouldn't hit it.

/would you?

ironic_followup: Nabb1: I thought America's largest target was Rosie O'Donnell.

Biggest yes, but unfortunately not a target. I wouldn't hit it.

/would you?

Yes, with a tire iron.

And of course, everyone is forgetting the WTC replacement tower, currently being built, that is supposed to rise to 1776 feet.

eddyatwork: Lundah: Chicago Spire (pops)

The power of FlashBlock thwarted your feeble rickroll!

Dammit, wrong link. This should work much better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Spire (pops)

*shrugs*

At 1,500 feet, the Commerce Center would be dwarfed by the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower being built in New York.

/fixed

+1

Gotta show props to subbie; mostly because I got my Fark handle from the same book.

Uh oh, Mr. Roarke? "De plane boss, de plane!"

I would really like to see that movie remade. The original was flawed, yet very interesting.

nice.


approves

ugh. Ayn Rand reference.

America's Largest Target?

Their Superstores are pretty big, but they have nothing on Wal-Mart

Link (new window)

Actually, it's a pretty cool design.

Sorry, Philly. 1,500 feet isn't going to cut it.

The Chicago Spire is already under construction -- 2,000 feet (Linky)

I'm just glad they're building the Chicago Spire, can't wait til they start putting in actual above ground structure. Going to be so cool to watch it go up.

We're not in a competition with other cities. Anyone can build a giant penis structure, this one will have character. And if that's something we know about in Philadelphia, it's character(s).

BunkyBrewman: his one will have character

character is what the Chicago Spire has, namely by not being any sort of box or modification of a box.

People make fun of it, but I like Target just fine, better than Wal-mart anyway.

It's a pretty stupid idea to build a massive office building in a city/state with a high level of unemployment. Unless of course, you enjoy having a massive building with nobody in it.

Ayn Rand is a horrible author.

Discuss.

andrew131: It's a pretty stupid idea to build a massive office building in a city/state with a high level of unemployment. Unless of course, you enjoy having a massive building with nobody in it.

Your ignorance is duly noted.
BTW genius, the unemployment rate in the Philadephia region is 4.6 percent as of 4/08. (Pennsylvania 5.2)

National average, 5.5 percent.

/you were saying?

France successfully thwarted hijackers who intended to crash a plane with 236 people into the Eiffel tower.

So it's still a bigger target, but their President was/is more responsible.

P.S.
Happened in 1994 when people could still say, "who would have ever thought someone who crash a plane into a building as a terrorist attack"

I just came from Borders with a copy of The Fountainhead not 30 minutes ago!

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Frank LLoyd Wright's plan for "The Illinois" called for it to be a mile high.

Lundah: Dammit, wrong link. This should work much better:

An accidental Rickroll?

I'm going back to bed.

Boston is supposedly getting a larger wang soon as well, though not world-class. It's called Trans National Place:

Jim Duncan also unimpressed.

BunkyBrewman: Your ignorance is duly noted.
BTW genius, the unemployment rate in the Philadephia region is 4.6 percent as of 4/08. (Pennsylvania 5.2)

National average, 5.5 percent.

/you were saying?

It was a farking joke about the stigma behind Philly people. Chill the fark out. Furthermore, since you're quick to pull stats you should also note that Philadelphia's unemployment rates are not seasonally adjusted.

Meh. Call me when Tokyo lays the groundwork for this.

andrew131: BunkyBrewman: Your ignorance is duly noted.
BTW genius, the unemployment rate in the Philadephia region is 4.6 percent as of 4/08. (Pennsylvania 5.2)

National average, 5.5 percent.

/you were saying?

It was a farking joke about the stigma behind Philly people. Chill the fark out. Furthermore, since you're quick to pull stats you should also note that Philadelphia's unemployment rates are not seasonally adjusted.

Again, your ignorance has been duly noted. Any way you look at the stats, the simple fact is that you were, and are... talking out of your butt.

/carry on

BunkyBrewman: Again, your ignorance has been duly noted. Any way you look at the stats, the simple fact is that you were, and are... talking out of your butt.

You're saying the BLS stats are not seasonally adjusted? Link (new window)

It's amazing that, if anything, 9/11 has sparked another skyscraper boon, rather than ending it completely. Prolly has more to do with increased urbanization than anything.

/ 9/11

andrew131: It's a pretty stupid idea to build a massive office building in a city/state with a high level of unemployment. Unless of course, you enjoy having a massive building with nobody in it.

Looks like it would add 2000 feet of employment.

I thought we learned our lesson with the targets I mean skyscrapers already?

No need for any more of them, really.

The Decider: I just came from Borders with a copy of The Fountainhead not 30 minutes ago!

Enjoy your paperweight/doorstop.

Onager: Ayn Rand is a horrible author.

Discuss.

I actually like her writing but that's because I take it as fiction, full of fictional characters, fictional behaviors, and fictional econmic situations. She was a fan of O.Henry and his sense of humor shows up in her work from time to time, which I enjoy.

My big problem with Howard Roark is that he blew up a building that wasn't his. He whined in court like a baby about his payment being not money but seeing his vision realized. When the building wasn't built his way, he felt he had the right to destroy it. Problem is, his agreement to have the building built his way and only his way was between him and Keating. Those who built the building didn't enter into a contract with Roark. He had had a right to sue the hell out of Keating for not living up to his end of the contract but he didn't have the right to blow up someone else's building.

Oh, and it is obvious from The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Red Pawn and many of her other works that she had quite a thing for love triangles... and rape fantasies. Her real life involvement in a love triangle is well knows... as for the rape fantasy, well, we may never know if that was something she was into or just something she liked for her fictional characters.

Certainly everyone is entited to their opinion about her writing but I find often people who disagree with her philosophy will take cheap shots at the technical and artistic merits of her writing. Some of them have valid points but mostly it comes off as critisism because of a dislike of Objectivism instead of a true dislike of her writing ability.

/Ayn deserves the Golden Strawman Award.

so Philly will have a 1500 foot building, and yet all their sports teams will still suck mighty massive moose dong....

they must be so proud

Considering the Comcast Center looks like a giant USB thumb drive they can't really mess it up too much design wise...

Great. Another phallus.

JSieverts: so Philly will have a 1500 foot building, and yet all their sports teams will still suck mighty massive moose dong....

they must be so proud

It is actually quite related... it is the curse of William Penn you see.

EngineerAU: /Ayn deserves the Golden Strawman Award.

I agree that she was not a horrible author like Onager says. But her best was not Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead, it was We The Living.

I WAS all ready to launch into a philosophical discussion of the pros and cons of Objectivism, but then I remembered, this is Fark.