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Join Date: Apr 2004
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We still have Squaw Peak and Squaw Peak Parkway even though our former govenor (current head of homeland security) ramrodded a name change through more than five years ago. Even on a smaller scale we call a particular soccer facility "wallball" even though that name changed about 20 years ago.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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People call stuff whatever. There's a "Bicentennial Park" in the area where I grew up that I never heard called anything other than the "Mini-Park" even though there's always been a big sign with it's proper name. If it becomes the Conglomerated Corporations park, guess what we'll call it?
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It is the Sears Tower, darn it, and so it should remain. Kind of like how New Yorkers feel about 6th Avenue.
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Read? I only know how to write.
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And don't get me started on Washington National Airport being named after Reagan. |
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I wonder when they'll rename the Empire State Building? King Kong will be PISSED if he can't find it.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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At least Willis sounds like a normal name. What if they wanted to name it "Tostitos Tower" or some shit?
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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They're preparing you for the half-sized building to be built next to it ... Arnold.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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We could all chip in some $$$, buy the building and rename the Willis Tower to Cellar Tower. That might confuse some folk, but we'd know what we were talking about.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Hmmmmm. That's growing on me. And besides, I can't hear "Willis" without hearing THIS:
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twatfaced two legged bumhole
Join Date: Jun 2004
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And now YOU can't either, mwa hahahahah!!1
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Savannah, Georgia
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I can't imagine the name means that much anymore. They way commerical names have made their way into the names of stadiums and other places they have bought set the stage for the perversion to begin.
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Blockbuster put its name on a stadium. It quickly diminished. Citizen Bank names a baseball park. So Royal Bank of Scotland then needed $billions from the British government. Should the tower be named Willis, then how quickly will that company disappear? How widespread is that trend? |
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