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aemeijers

On 10/22/2011 7:15 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:31:52 -0700 (PDT), Higgs
wrote:

Have seen this a lot recently, referring to big box stores? I tried to
look up BORG, but no luck.

Anybody?

Big Orange Retail Giant (A.K.A. Home Depot).

That is one definition. IMHO, it derives from Star Trek TNG, and the
huge cube ships of one of their main enemies, the Borg collective.
Modern big-box home centers, floating in a sea of asphalt, sorta
resemble the Borg spacecraft. It is a generic term for all of them at
this point, not just the orange guys.

Like most internet jargon and slang, there is probably no way to know
for sure where it came from.

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