# Skyscraper Melts Car **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846 "2013-09-03T01:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/21 "2013-09-04T21:05:02Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > It almost looks like there’s a number of architects out there who never heard of what concave mirrors do with sunbeams. This is a reprise of Las Vegas’ [Vdara “Death Ray”](http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/vdara-visitor-death-ray-scorched-hair). As **Bo** points out, the number is “one”. The Onion couldn’t have written it better. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/22 "2013-09-04T21:10:26Z")
Too bad it isn’t 1920s Style Architecture. What? I like Art Deco! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/23 "2013-09-04T21:20:28Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > In the architect’s, um, offense(?), since it’s [the same jackass who designed the building that gave us the phrase “Vdara death ray”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Vi%C3%B1oly), he prolly should have come up with a new schtick. If I was writing this as a comedy, I’d add a scene with a very in-your-face type “A” personality sitting with the architect and saying in a loud entitled psuedo-Chef-Ramsey voice, "Rafael, I need you to listen to me. I need you to focus. Focus, focus, focus! Can you do that? Good. Your design? Its utter crap. Now look at me… focus. Focus, focus, focus! I want a new design, I want it by tomorrow. Blue-prints and all. I don’t care what you have to do to get it done… are you looking at me? Focus! I want that design. And… I want the entire building up inside of a month. Focus! I don’t want to hear back-talk, I don’t want to hear any excuses. Focus, focus, focus! " “Now if you need me, and you damn well better not, I’ll be watching Manchester United kick Swansea’s ass. But I don’t want you thinking football. I want you to… go on, say it now… Focus! Do you hear me? Show me your passion and… say it with me now… Focus! Can you do that…? Can you show me your focus? Good Man…!” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/24 "2013-09-05T12:47:23Z")
[Doofenschmirtz] BEHOLD! the Car-Meltinator![/Doof] ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/25 "2013-09-05T14:47:52Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s one heck of an ugly building, too. It is indeed. I walked past it last Sunday and wondered “What on Earth is that?” ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/26 "2013-09-05T15:28:59Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That’s one heck of an ugly building, too. About as good as English Cuisine. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846/27 "2013-09-05T16:19:41Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > It is indeed. I walked past it last Sunday and wondered “What on Earth is that?” It could be worse. At least you didn’t walk past and wonder “Why am I on fire?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscraper-melts-car/667846.md?page=1)