Whatchu talkin' bout, "Willis"?

[chicag0]

As of today (well yesterday technically), the Sears Tower, tallest building in America since 1973 has been renamed The Willis Tower.

I refuse to comply with this and will, to the day I die, continue to call it the Sears Tower.

That is all.

 

[Persephone]

It's so strange they renamed a national landmark of that city 🙁. It would be like renaming the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building.

 

[Dave2112]

Most people in Chicago (and, it seems, the US in general) are refusing to make the change. And I support that. This selling out of our landmarks and historical locations to corporate interests, usually not even our own, has got to stop.

Now, the proposed change of "The Grand Canyon" to "America's Purdy Mouth"...I was behind that one. 🙂

 

[mikepd]

I wanna go there and go up to the sky deck. I heard its really cool. What the hell is willis anyways what do they do or make?

 

[chicag0]

The sky deck is pretty cool, albeit not worth 10 bucks. Though, now that they put in an overhang with glass floors, that might be pretty awesome.

As far as I know, the tower was bought by Willis Group Holdings, a London-based insurance broker.

 

[juggernaut]

This is wrong. I'm gonna buy it and change it to TT Tower.

The first 50 floors will be gym equipment, the next ten my favorite restaurants. The next 30 will be broken up for Laser Tag and paintball. The top 18 will be for TT approved activities. You have to qualify to get on the main roof and be chosen by God himself to get in the mechanical penthouse with me.

 

[chicag0]

That's ok. I was already outside on the roof of the John Hancock, and that is like Sears Tower Jr.

But laser tag sounds fun. Paintball sounds painful.

 

[mikepd]

wow you like to eat if you could fill ten floors of a building with you favorite restaurants. would their be an Outback? I love thier blooming onions. Now that I think of it I could prolly fill 10 floors with my favorite eateries. Not very fancy ,but I could go for a whopper.

 

[juggernaut]

Yes, there would be an Outback. Probably a couple. And yes... oh,my.... can I eat.

The Laser Tag would use real lasers. And "paintball" is probably the wrong choice of words. It's really just throwing cans of paint at each other.

 

[chicag0]

Fuck that. I ain't playing no game where a giant monster shoots lasers at me, or throws buckets of paint at my head.

 

[juggernaut]

Don't be scared! You'd have your own lasers and I wouldn't throw anything at your head that didn't compliment your hair or eyes.

 

[chicag0]

Don't be scared! You'd have your own lasers and I wouldn't throw anything at your head that didn't compliment your hair or eyes.

Aw thanks. I'm gonna be covered in green paint, most likely.

I fail at laser tag. I just hide and shoot people as they run by.

 

[juggernaut]

" I just hide and shoot people as they run by."


So you're in the Taliban?

 

[chicag0]

Yes.

 

[Excess]

Yeah, willis tower...wtf? It sounds terrible. I officially hate these Willis people now.

 

[Dave2112]

Will the Bird reside in this tower? This is of utmost importance.

 

[PurpleStyle]

As a person who lives in and around the Chicago area, all I have to say is this:

Let's go buy the tallest building in London, add a giant stone sculpture of a hand giving the finger to the top of it, and rename it to the "FUCK EUROPE" tower.

 

[N/A]

Sears, Roebuck & Co sold out to K-mart a few years ago for a pittance. "K-mart Tower" is an even worse name than "Willis Tower", unless they steal the Blue Light from the building 1/2 mile east on South Michigan Ave.