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A renaming that makes a certain amount of sense
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16/03/2009 05:52:18
 
 
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>>>>>>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-sears-tower-name-change-willis-march12,0,7014962.story
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>>>>>>Given that one of his most famous roles was set in a skyscraper, I guess it makes some sense to rename the Sears Tower after Bruce Willis.
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>>>>>>What's that you say? It's not Bruce Willis it's being renamed after?
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>>>>>>Fat chance many people will ever call it Willis Tower. I wonder what egomaniac dreamed up this one.
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>>>>>I note the caption under the picture - The Sears Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, will soon become the Willis Tower. (Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / January 15, 2009)
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>>>>>To satisfy my own curiosity, exactly when did Canada get cut out of the Western Hemisphere?
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>>>>When I went to the top of it, it was the tallest in the world!!! :o) I don't think antennas should count in height though so it should get knocked down the list.
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>>>The time is coming very soon when the CN Tower will probably be relegated down to around 5th or 6th in the world anyway. I'ts already been demoted to number two in the world.
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>>Been there, stood on the glass floor, marveled at it
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>Makes one of us. You wouldn't get me up there with a gun. Bad enough I have to work in it's shadow. I speculate about whether it would reach my office if it toppled over (but not enough to do the math).

What do you mean ".. it is shadow ..."?

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>>>It's more than just an antenna though. The observation deck was supposedly the highest observation point in a building in the world at one time - higher than the one in the Sears Tower.
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>>Also been on the roof of WTC, Empire State, Hancock? (Boston)
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