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Bos'un's Mate
07/01/09

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That sound you heard was my cremaster snapping.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
07/01/09

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looks awesome!

i'm going to be downtown tomorrow for The Taste - definitely going to The Ledge.
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HiredGoons
07/01/09

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*runs screaming for the hills
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El Matardillo
07/01/09

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I wonder how many blows of the hammer it would take to crack the glass?
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Trai_Dep
07/02/09

@El Matardillo: That'd be declassé. Bring a soprano with immense lung capacity instead.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/01/09

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Rorschach test be damned it's a news anchor (forget his name) getting a hand job from Ruth Gordon, in heaven.
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ithabeleng metesunyane
07/01/09

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I met a nice man in New York who told me he lives in the Sears Tower. But I thought he was teasing me. Is that really a residential building?
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@ithabeleng metesunyane: You can live in the Hancock. I hear the rent on the old Farley place is decent right now.
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ithabeleng metesunyane
07/01/09

@CaptainFantastic:

I think maybe he meant that building. that is the other tall building in chicago i believe
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CaptainFantastic
07/02/09

@ithabeleng metesunyane: Yes. Second tallest, and nicer to look at.
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Smitros
07/01/09

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In Europe that view would be called the Royale . . .
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noonecaresowen
07/01/09

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The dork in me wonders if you have to sign some sort of form to clear them in case anything happens.
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@noonecaresowen: I doubt it. That overhanging box is probably designed not to fail if it were filled with concrete.
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m4ximusprim3
07/01/09

@CaptainFantastic: I think he was more referring to the massive coronary/annyeurism I would suffer if you threw me in a small glass box a quarter of a mile in the air.
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@m4ximusprim3: What about a jet-propelled metal tube 5 miles in the air? Would you do that?
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Perhaps Not
07/01/09

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Neato! You should do more Chris Van Allsburg-related stories, Richard. I would read all of them, even the ones about the movie version of "Zathura." "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick" was one of my favorite books growing up.
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BadUncle
07/01/09

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103 floors up and the view is the same from my fourth floor window. Doesn't it not rain somewhere?
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Gnip-Gnop
07/01/09

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What would happen if you jumped up and down in there once or twice?
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naugahydeinplainsight
07/01/09

@Gnip-Gnop: Death at 1,300 Feet. The detectives would wonder how someone could be killed in such as small space and there still not be any witnesses.
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CaptainFantastic
07/01/09

@Gnip-Gnop: Eww. I hope the engineers thought of that.
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VoxPopuli
07/01/09

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That is my idea of a torture chamber. Almost as bad as that walk over the Grand Canyon glass bridge. My palms sweat just thinking about that.

Also, great day to open your little glass box thingie, Sears Tower. Hey, wanna stand inside a storm cloud and see nothing? Who wouldn't?
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naugahydeinplainsight
07/01/09

@VoxPopuli: Just the pictures of the Canyon bridge made me woozy.

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OrneryBabe
07/01/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Imagine walking halfway out onto that thing, like to the center of the "U", then realizing that heights are not for you. What then? Running is probably out of the question, right?
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FeedingChickenToDucks
07/01/09

@OrneryBabe: I walked all the way around that thing in April. A smartass Scouser friend was with me and started jumping up and down on far end of the "U". People out there with him started flipping out and running (which was hilarious because you have to wear felt-like booties over your shoes, so it was more like slipping and sliding away). I thought one woman's husband was going to pummel him. He probably (usually) had it coming. I know my balls jumped a little even though the thing never moved. It's 4 or 5 sheets of half inch thick glass. The brackets are drilled 15 feet into the rock. You could probably ride an elephant or two around it, truth be told- provided it didn't freak and buck you over the edge. What a way to go, though, huh?
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Schm
07/02/09

@FeedingChickenToDucks: OH MY GOD. I would have murdered your friend.
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contradicto
07/01/09

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You would never get me up there.
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