1 There were tons of great ideas about how to design the replacement towers and tribute to those who died. I think it's a great idea to have such a huge block that they are built on...which was insisted upon by the police and fire dept. to thwart car/bus bombs. My favorite design was the "fuck you" towers: One huge tower with a little tower on each side, classic middle finger architecture!

2 Osama: I'm glad to see you were interested. I'm going to let my sphincster relax a bit and then YBP has sent two links.

3 been looking at a picture of the tower{a mockup} and the designer,David Childs....looks pretty good, very much like the look on the original towers with just a slightly triangular shape as it grows taller....much thicker base walls...3 feet of steel reinforced concrete and moved back 90 feet from the street to give more room from any blasts if terrorists should try and attack it...much more info on it in the Star Ledger here in NJ...looks good though, much better than that original ugly looking thing they wanted to build

4 Young men, that tower looks like one great big schlong. Whoever revels in it's revolting erection from the ground up is compensating for something.

5 That's not it at all, DSM. It's a bold, collective message, not a sense of inadequacy. A finger, not a "schlong". There's nothing sexual about it. Odd that you're the one who sees it that way.

6 Oyster, young man, when someone spends so much to make a schlong that big, they are definitely compensating for something. If you want some big fake schlong to be a finger, OK. That schlongy Washington Monument is my giant middle finger flipping off those lying punks in the White House and those scumbags in Congress. There's enough finger left to flip off that whacko Rumsfeld in the Pentagon too.

7 The Washington Monument is an obelisk. Look it up, Freud.

8 OK young mussel without a pearl, At 17min, 16 sec into the film "Osama and Us", you may view your purple mountain majesty in the sweet land of liberty, of which I sang.