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Post by drlj on Jul 25, 2014 11:50:00 GMT -5
So, Groucho was a gaucho who liked gazpacho? Well, where does that leave Harpo?
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Post by Marshall on Jul 25, 2014 11:55:40 GMT -5
Isn't it a law that you take the flag down every night? How they gonna do that? They'll probably hire a team of illegal immigrants to carry it off to storage at sunset, haul it back at dawn. . . . , The flag can be left up at night, but it has to be lit up. There's a guy near me that has a flag up 24/7/365. He has a yard light on it. I look for it, because I turn on that side street when coming home from the north and there's no street light. But the lighting bill on a 400 ft tower flag will be huge. Plus you'd probably see the beacon from outer space. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 25, 2014 12:13:02 GMT -5
Gaucho, gauge, gouge, gauze, gouache, gazpacho. . . .
Guys, your Uncle Russell is so proud of you. (And St. Groucho smiles down. . . .)
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Post by dradtke on Jul 25, 2014 15:39:57 GMT -5
Advertising, appealing to a market demographic plain and simple. I'm sure Perkins is a fine patriotic corporation. (Because in addition to being religious, a corporation can also be patriotic.) Now if their food was any good, I might actually eat there. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 25, 2014 21:44:39 GMT -5
The whole idea is just weird, if you ask me.
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Post by lar on Jul 26, 2014 10:54:17 GMT -5
As it happens Acuity is my insurance company. I just send in my premiums and I don't pay much attention to what they are doing. As long as they are front and center when I have a claim I don't really care much what they do. So I missed this until a high school classmate sent it to me the other day.
I consider myself as patriotic as the next guy. And I also the flag as a symbol of our country. I'd like to see it treated in a respectful manner. This seems very respectful to me even though it might be a bit over-the-top. But we all still have the right to be over the top.
Just to be clear, I'm not an "America right or wrong" kind of guy. I don't think that love of one's country carries with it the responsibility to accept, tolerate, or condone the excesses of it's government. If fact I believe that it's the responsiblity of our citizens to scream bloody murder when the government screws up.
As a society it seems that we are increasingly intolerant of other people's beliefs. Fortunately, we're still free in this country to speak out for or agin our government. There aren't a lot of places in the world that tolerate that.
I am about as cynical as it gets but if Acuity wants to put up a huge flag and call it an act of patriotism I'm not gonna tell 'em it's not.
Gauche? Well hell's bells, Bill, in my opinion that building your paper is moving to is about as guache as it gets. But I'm not the arbiter of gauche so I don't mind.
I'm equal opportunity. I laugh at some of the people a Walmart too.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 26, 2014 11:01:57 GMT -5
Gauche? Well hell's bells, Bill, in my opinion that building your paper is moving to is about as gauche as it gets. But I'm not the arbiter of gauche so I don't mind. Is it any better with a big-ass flag in front of it?  |
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Post by lar on Jul 26, 2014 11:17:49 GMT -5
Gauche? Well hell's bells, Bill, in my opinion that building your paper is moving to is about as gauche as it gets. But I'm not the arbiter of gauche so I don't mind. Is it any better with a big-ass flag in front of it? Naw. The cynical me says the flag is just a cheap trick to divert attention from a building that looks as if it was designed by several archictects, none of whom consulted any of the others. |
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Post by kenlarsson on Jul 26, 2014 11:25:42 GMT -5
Could be worse,  |
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Post by theevan on Jul 26, 2014 11:27:00 GMT -5
I get the weirdest boner looking at that building.
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Post by theevan on Jul 26, 2014 11:27:55 GMT -5
Hah! I meant the comment for Bill's building-to-be...but it applied doubly to Ken's image.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 26, 2014 11:29:18 GMT -5
I don't get this flag worship. And how does this affect policyholders' premiums? You're just pissed because they won't let you climb the ladder on the inside and parachute off the top. Look close, they jumped out of a plane. I bet it's a rush to climb up inside that thing. Wonder if there is an elevator? |
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Post by billhammond on Jul 26, 2014 11:29:56 GMT -5
Yeh, I am not crazy about the exterior, although our newsroom is gonna be really groovy (until we pig it out in the space of a few months). The folks who designed it said they were paying tribute to several surrounding buildings, but I wonder if an original idea might have been better, like the building you can see a bit of in the upper left of the above photo. Wells Fargo Tower:  |
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2014 11:54:10 GMT -5
As a society it seems that we are increasingly intolerant of other people's beliefs. And yet, what a conundrum. We require diverse beliefs in order to have targets with which to maintain our daily entertainment of ridicule. How ironic. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jul 26, 2014 11:59:13 GMT -5
Nyah nyah nyah pthfffpth!
There. I feel much better now.
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2014 12:18:40 GMT -5
you didn't even do it right.
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Post by patrick on Jul 26, 2014 12:40:05 GMT -5
you didn't even do it right. Are you ridiculing FP's ridiculing skills?  |
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2014 13:04:28 GMT -5
No, I'm ridiculing Russell Letsons (lame) ridiculing skills. And in doing so, I am asking for all hell to break loose.
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Post by theevan on Jul 26, 2014 13:13:21 GMT -5
I like it, Bill...but original? It harks back to the Empire State and other Deco buildings of the era.
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Post by drlj on Jul 26, 2014 13:15:36 GMT -5
I truly love you all. Kumbayah and peace out!
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