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Screw Willis Tower

#1 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:17 am

It's still Sears Tower to me. It will always be Sears Tower to me.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/willis.tow ... 58191.html
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#2 Post by Estonut » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:20 am

The article mentions the same thing that our news reporters did in their quick segment on this Thursday night. Sears moved outta there 17 years ago. This article adds that they maintained naming rights until 2003.
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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#3 Post by BackInTex » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:45 am

Wha chu talkin bout?

Willis got a tower?
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#4 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:28 am

This is even more idiotic than renaming some famous ballfield to please a sponsor. :roll:
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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#5 Post by sunflower » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:52 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:This is even more idiotic than renaming some famous ballfield to please a sponsor. :roll:
It really is, people still always call things their original names!!
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#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:21 am

One sign of getting older is giving directions by where things used to be. You know turn left just past where Sears used to be.

I'm just sayin.
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:47 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One sign of getting older is giving directions by where things used to be. You know turn left just past where Sears used to be.

I'm just sayin.
There's a big difference between referring to a place that's not there anymore and changing the name of an iconic landmark to please some two-bit tenant that nobody has ever heard of!

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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#8 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:58 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One sign of getting older is giving directions by where things used to be. You know turn left just past where Sears used to be.

I'm just sayin.
Or what you give directions by. In college it was 'two blocks past the Rathskellar'. Now it is more likely a fabric or grocery store.

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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#9 Post by Auburn, AL GPS » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:18 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One sign of getting older is giving directions by where things used to be. You know turn left just past where Sears used to be.

I'm just sayin.
Sign of getting older? That's just good GPS programmin'.
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#10 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:48 am

I thought that was the one Die Hard took place in.
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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#11 Post by Spock » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:53 am

"Screw Willis Tower"

"I do"

"So do I"
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Re: Screw Willis Tower

#12 Post by TheConfessor » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:01 pm

But if they remove the Sears brand name, won't that void the building's lifetime full-replacement guarantee?
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