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Gene Waara
09-07-2010, 3:33 PM
Since one question I always wanted answered has been, I thought I would ask the other. I know it refers to HD and Lowes, but what do the initials stand for? Of course, there are many more to come.....
Mark Ashmeade
09-07-2010, 3:38 PM
This one's a bit of a dual answer. Borg as in the Star Trek baddie that assimilates its enemy.

BORG as in Big Orange Retail Giant - Home Depot. Blowes gets tarnished by default too.
Van Huskey
09-07-2010, 3:48 PM
Also names of places in Iceland, Norway, Antartica and Egypt.

Resistence is futile...
Dave Gaul
09-07-2010, 3:49 PM
Can also mean "Big 'ole Retail Giant"

or just "Big ORanGe"
David Helm
09-07-2010, 4:40 PM
To me it means "do not enter"!
Ray DuBose
09-07-2010, 4:50 PM
Since one question I always wanted answered has been, I thought I would ask the other. I know it refers to HD and Lowes, but what do the initials stand for? Of course, there are many more to come.....


Guess everyone has a different answer. As one said the Borg were from Star Trek and the ship they flew around in was a Big Cube/Box assimilating everything. So to me the reference for Borg is a Big Box Store that sucks you in and assimilates you.

Ray
Dan Karachio
09-07-2010, 5:14 PM
Or assimilates every locally owned hardware store in town!

However, there is a plus side to the Borg. Yes, I am speaking of the best Borg ever - good old Seven of Nine. Or as my friend used to call her, Two of Two.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/03/7of9.jpg
Brett Nelson
09-07-2010, 5:36 PM
To me it means "do not enter"!

Not necessarily true for me, like it once was. Lowe's dimensional lumber is actually the highest quality that I can round up, including all the local lumber wholesalers. Retail pricing has it priced well above the wholesale yards, but they will gladly price match my lowest supplier.
Peter Quinn
09-07-2010, 6:29 PM
Or assimilates every locally owned hardware store in town!

However, there is a plus side to the Borg. Yes, I am speaking of the best Borg ever - good old Seven of Nine. Or as my friend used to call her, Two of Two.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/03/7of9.jpg

If seven of nine worked at my local Borg they would get more of my business.
David Helm
09-07-2010, 6:41 PM
If seven of nine worked at my local Borg they would get more of my business.

That's the only way they would get my business. She would have to be a local though.
ken gibbs
09-08-2010, 8:04 AM
BORG stands for my ex-mother-in-law.