Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

MAN

2chris2: It will never be known as the Willis Tower.

Chicagoans are going to keep calling it the Sears Tower, and within 10 or 15 years, someone else will end up owning the building and they'll rename it again.

And then everyone will complain that it will never go by another name but Willis Tower.

Sitting in it, 11th floor. I think the whole effort was pretty stupid. It gets Willis' name out there but they're not exactly a consumer company, so I don't see it helping much.

- R

markyp09: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

Here you go.

EdNortonsTwin: That was Gary Oldman who uh, looks older. Can someone please post a picture of Gary Coleman.

Okay - here you go:

Wireless Joe: Everyone said the same thing about Komiskey Park; "I'll never call it by it's corporate name!" That was just a few years ago, and I never hear it referred to anything but US Cellular Field or The Cell any more.

I was actually discussing the same point with a friend earlier this week. I talked about going to Comiskey after they'd done the renovation and renamed it to "US Cellular or whatever shiat we're supposed to call it now."

/Still Comiskey to me
//Just like it'll always be the Sears Tower
///And Marshall Field's will never be Macy's

MiddleyMcCentrist: markyp09: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

Here you go.

EdNortonsTwin: That was Gary Oldman who uh, looks older. Can someone please post a picture of Gary Coleman.

Okay - here you go:

exparrot: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

MAN

We both screwed up - here's the photo:

Yipee Ky Yay.

Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

MiddleyMcCentrist: markyp09: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

Here you go.

EdNortonsTwin: That was Gary Oldman who uh, looks older. Can someone please post a picture of Gary Coleman.

Okay - here you go:

+

ne2d: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

Oh. God damn it.

... And no one says a thing about the fact it's located on "Wacker" drive...

incircles: How far away is the Sears Tower from the Rock and Roll McDonalds?

[WESLEY_WILLIS.JPG]


The thread is done. Last one out turn off the lights.

/I SMOOOOKE WEEEED.... I SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE WEEEEEEED!

I had a great time tripping balls there at night in the '90s.

amateur6: OLD. FARKING. NEWS.

/bitter
//submitted this weeks ago

Well, the knowledge that it was going to be renamed is old news. The fact that it officially happened today, with the new signage unveiled, and pomp and ceremony, is quite new.

I'm pretty sure we had a thread about this weeks ago, too, so that's probably the one you should be bitter about.

Jerry Coleman?

As a person who lives in Chicago-land area, FARK YOU, ASSHATS! DON'T RENAME THE MOST FAMOUS SPOT IN CHICAGO, DUMBASSES!


I would post more, but I'm sure the modmins would censor it.

What you talkin' bout willis?

Big Willy

I think it's a stroke of marketing geniuis. I, for one, plan to go out immediately after work and buy a whole bunch of..ummm....whatever it is that Willis sells!

They should also change the name of the Empire State Building, but more for political-correctness -- I've heard that imperialism is bad.

Hey replaced by golf cart,

Do I get any points for correctly identifying the location of that building as being in Wausau, WI?

/Nothing too obscure for fark
//slashies

I am still ticked that our former governor renamed Squaw Peak to Piestawa Peak. It's been known as Squaw Peak for over a hundred years, but because of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and because some woman dies in an ambush because she made a wrong turn (and this somehow makes her a "hero"), the name of a mountain had to be changed.

/meh

Came for the Wesley Willis references, leaving satisfied.

/and all I have to say about Gary, Indiana, is THE SMELL, IT BURNS!!!
//seriously, there's a pretty simple reason the Jackson family is all farked up

Someone should build a really short tower right next to the Willis tower, paint it the same black colour and call it the Arnold tower.

cr0sh: I am still ticked that our former governor renamed Squaw Peak to Piestawa Peak. It's been known as Squaw Peak for over a hundred years, but because of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and because some woman dies in an ambush because she made a wrong turn (and this somehow makes her a "hero"), the name of a mountain had to be changed.

That also probably has something to do with the cycle of political correctness. Due to some confusion in etymology, some people think the word "squaw" is offensive.

There's a whole sad, stupid story about this wharrgarbl in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

How about we all pitch in, buy the thing back, and re-rename it Fark Tower.

Arklop: How about we all pitch in, buy the thing back, and re-rename it Fark Tower.

UFIA tower?

jshine: cr0sh: I am still ticked that our former governor renamed Squaw Peak to Piestawa Peak. It's been known as Squaw Peak for over a hundred years, but because of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and because some woman dies in an ambush because she made a wrong turn (and this somehow makes her a "hero"), the name of a mountain had to be changed.

That also probably has something to do with the cycle of political correctness. Due to some confusion in etymology, some people think the word "squaw" is offensive.

There's a whole sad, stupid story about this wharrgarbl in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

What about when my girlfriend asks me to do something and I respond "that's squaw work"?

I for one, refuse to start calling a building something else just because someone pays someone else to tell me I should.

I never refer to the new Montreal forum as the Bell Center. Sorry, my brain's real estate ain't for sale.

Yeah, plenty of people have taken to calling it the Wesley Willis tower instead already.

They were playing WW songs on the radio yesterday, right aquigly?

Huck Chaser: What about when my girlfriend asks me to do something and I respond "that's squaw work"?

I don't know your GF, but I would imagine it gets met with the same response that "that's womens' work" would get...

/which, I admit, I do toss out around my S/O on occasion
//when I'm feeling masochistic

mrsirjojo: I for one, refuse to start calling a building something else just because someone pays someone else to tell me I should.

I never refer to the new Montreal forum as the Bell Center. Sorry, my brain's real estate ain't for sale.

The Ballpark in Arlington has a corporate name, Ameriquest Field I think, but no one calls it that. It is always The Ballpark in Arlington, even if you are actually already in Arlington.

HunterNIU: Ron White's big ole GD Building

Came for this.

Willis Dikfit?

mrsirjojo: Sorry, my brain's real estate ain't for sale.

But the name of the building is....

I get being upset, but this "I will Never Call it that" is just silly.

So you would rather be indignant than correct?

RIP Sears Tower

Huh-huh. It says "Wacker".

RIP Tower

MiddleyMcCentrist:

Okay - here you go:

BIIIRRRRDMAAAAAANN!

CallMeVD: Do I get any points for correctly identifying the location of that building as being in Wausau, WI?

/Nothing too obscure for fark
//slashies

Soup for you!!

Suck a doberman's dick.

Shyla: ... And no one says a thing about the fact it's located on "Wacker" drive...

THIS, because just last week we were walking by the "Sears" tower, and we were talking about the name change. My 5 year old son piped up- It's "Big Willie!"

that makes wacker all the moar funnay

SomeCapn: Big Willy

BIG WILLIE WACKER!

ne2d: Tigggy: Hey, can someone post a picture of Gary Coleman for me? I can't seem to find one anywhere!

It would be my pleasure.