Beam Us Up Scottie ~!~

[haikuman]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/...02953.html

Lightening in Chicago ~!~

[Robert M]

haiku,

Forget Willis Group Holdings - the penthouse must be rented by Dr. Frankenstein!

Robert

[Acer]

Somebody 'shop a Sauron eye on that, stat!

[MikeF]

Sorry, it will always be Sears Tower to me.

[Buzz]

MikeF wrote:
Sorry, it will always be Sears Tower to me.

Huh? Is the Sears Tower not the Sears Tower anymore?

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[Robert M]

Buzz,

Nopes. It's the Willis tower now. Ridiculous.

Robert

[Zoidberg]

Robert M wrote:
Nopes. It's the Willis tower now. Ridiculous.

One of those things where popular conversation will win out over official convention. E.g., any given Air Force aircraft; the USAF gives an aircraft an official designation -- e.g., A-10 Thunderbolt-- and the popular name is the one that always sticks -- e.g., Warthog. (Note the complete lack of mention of "Warthog" on the Air Force's official page linked above, but at least 18 mentions on the user-written Wikipedia page.)

So it'll always be The Sears Tower. It'd be like Trump, say, buying the Empire State Building and renaming it the Trump Landmark Tower or something; it'll always be The Empire State Building.