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    Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"

    This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like

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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
    Do they really need to be "advertising" at this point?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"


    People have been screwing up the spelling of Pittsburgh for 100 years now.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Maybe his jersey was made by the same people who made the "Natinals" jerseys.
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    Image of junyo junyo
    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    07/15/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: I think so. I heard they fired that guy who proofread, but he got a job with Kansas City.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/15/09

    @ceilingFANBOY: Actually, the story behind the Honus Wagner error card was that the printer didn't know how to spell Pittsburgh so he just took the spelling from the jersey. The card is 100 years old and is one of the most valuable baseball cards in existence. Its last auction price was $1.62 million.
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    Image of Zach Davis Zach Davis
    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:



    In the late 19th Century Pittsburgh was officially renamed Pittsburg but the citizens reversed that decision some time later.
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    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: How do you know there isn't an H out of frame?
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    07/15/09

    @stonefry: I think that's the point (Look at the label under the picture)
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
    Hrmmm, I wonder who I have to pay off to get it to spell GitEmSteveDave.com.....
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    Image of katieoh katieoh
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
    they were probably trying to spell "picksburgh." that's how it usually gets pronounced by pittsburghers.
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    Image of avconsumer2 avconsumer2
    07/15/09

    @katieoh: Do they eat "breftas" in the morning instead of breakfast?
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    07/15/09

    @avconsumer2: They do drink "pop", and say "y'inz". That's what i remember from my god-awful stay of 1.5 years there. That and people said I talked funny b/c of my Jersey Accent.
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    Image of Captian_Caveman Captian_Caveman
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
    Don't worry they "Fixed" it now the building is flashing "TPEBTSAURGH"
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    07/15/09

    @Captian_Caveman: Teh Kitteh thanks them.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/15/09

    @HoneybunsCandy_GitEmSteveDave:



    I'm in ur Grant bilding

    haxxoring ur Morse Code
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    Image of rjp: This is my rebuttal rjp: This is my rebuttal
    07/15/09

    In reply to Pittsburgh Skyscraper's Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells "Pitetsbkrrh"
    Pitetsbkrrh is the native spelling of the name of the city. Pittsburgh is the Americanized spelling. Why must we force our American culture on American cities?!
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    Image of iDrone iDrone
    07/15/09

    @rjp: Except... it's not. It was named by Sir William Pitt. Pitt's Burg. Pittsburgh.



    Morse Code fail. No Native American slurring here.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/15/09

    @iDrone: Hi! I'm OMG! Ponies! You must be new here.



    I understand your confusion. rjp clearly violated the TOS by not using the [sarcasm] tags. However, it was harmless error. Something tells me he was being facetious.
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    Image of Tirko™ Tirko™
    07/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Who's Burg and why did he name a city after his armpit?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/29/09

    In reply to This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
    This reminds me of the animated wrapping paper in A Gift of Gold....

    %3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dgolden%2520wrapping%2520paper%2520animaniacs%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26c&feature=player_embedded

    Of course, this being in Dubai, doesn't give me quite the nice feeling the cartoon does :P

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/29/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Oh jeez. That's what I get for copying off of google video search.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    05/29/09

    In reply to This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
    Uh, have we learned nothing of exterior support steel buildings after 9/11? Also, I'd hate to be around this building when the sun is out. MY CORNEAS!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/29/09

    @HasPonies!Envy_GitEmSteveDave: Shhh, let them have the next 9/11 event. Heh.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    05/29/09

    In reply to This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
    Sexy. How do I book reservations? I'd love to be the first to sleep here.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/29/09

    @Software_Goddess: they only book in pairs. i will bite the bullet and stay with you.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/29/09

    In reply to This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
    It is a mistake to question anything architectural, I recognize, especially when we have monstrosities like the EMP in my backyard. (Really, Paul - a broken guitar?) That said, it seems that many of these projects are merely to prove that it can be done without a solid reason why it should be done. The Tower of Pisa is a wonderful architectural mistake - and while this is impressive and perhaps pretty, I still question "why"? I suppose if I bought into the "architecture is art" argument a bit more, I would not have this internal dilemma.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/29/09

    In reply to This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like
    Why are all the really cool outrageously expensive buildings in Abu Dubai these days?
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    Image of gkimmina gkimmina
    02/09/09

    In reply to CO2 Skyscraper Scrubs Away Smog With 400 Trees
    not a botanist, though I play one on TV, but why do you need light bulbs for night time photosynthesis
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/09/09

    @gkimmina: I don't think the trees would fare well with a 24 hour daylight cycle.
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    02/09/09

    In reply to CO2 Skyscraper Scrubs Away Smog With 400 Trees
    Someone must've been sitting in his car, staring at the pine-scented tab hanging on the rear view mirror and just shouted out "Eureka!"
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/09/09

    In reply to CO2 Skyscraper Scrubs Away Smog With 400 Trees
    Why wouldn't you use a hedge instead of a tree?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/09/09

    @Lite: has a bacon wallet.: Because a ten-story high wall of hedges would essentially act just like those woven fiberglas air filters used in your home's air conditioning system...and even after it clogs up with dirt, how often have you actually replaced one? Yeah, me neither.
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    02/09/09

    @Lite: has a bacon wallet.: If only we had some way to fund that hedge...
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/09/09

    @DeusExMach: Allow me to give you a belated...Nice!
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    Image of Monty Monty
    02/09/09

    In reply to CO2 Skyscraper Scrubs Away Smog With 400 Trees
    The problem of CO2 is a lot more complicated than just putting clutters of trees in certain areas to suck up the carbon. First, that power plant that you are trying to compensate for is pumping out far more CO2 than you could ever fit into a carbon-creating mystery-science-theater monstrosity. ... I was going to go on and on, but the bottom line is that this problem is a lot more complicated than this idea could ever solve.


    What could solve it is emitting less carbon. That is the one thing we are having trouble figuring out how to do.


    Whether anyone likes it, this economic down-turn has (short-term) done more to reduce carbon emissions than just about anything. Even the four buck gasoline did not have the whole world cutting back as much as we have been recently. So, I suppose that is the silver-lining. We just need to toss the whole world economy into the crapper, and ultimately our carbon emissions mess will be solved.


    (Um, in case you are wondering -- I am joking about that possible solution.)

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