In the NY times, about the HD opening in Manhattan
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/08/nyregion/08home.html?8hpib
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carlberky
carlberky
I particularly like this comment:
“The customers in New York are more sophisticated and demanding, so we had to take it up a notch,” said Christine McVeigh, project director of the company’s Manhattan development team.
HD considers the rest of you hilbillies out there not so sophisticated or demanding.
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Great, I can't wait to see some yahoo trying to get a 4x8' peice of sheetrock through the turnstile, the F train will never be the same <rolleyes>
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Great, I can't wait to see some yahoo trying to get a 4x8' peice of sheetrock through the turnstile, the F train will never be the same <rolleyes>
Er, I have done that. It was many years ago but it was the F train. But that trip was nothing compared to the time I got 300 lbs of oak downtown on the 2 train.....
must've been a real Paine in the Behind!
;)
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"hilbillies"
Yu nu yerers jus caint get enuf of insulltin us gud ol' bouys, spel cek musta nat caut it, but; "REDNECK" iss speld wit 2 LLs!
Please be aware of our cultrual sensibilities out here in the sticks!
By yourself??
Saw a guy and his helper get on the tube in London with a Graco on wheels and 4ea 5 gal (musta been liters acturally?) pails of paint plas a coupla big tarps, but he did have a helper.
sorry for above spelling errors, gaught cought up in mizspilin on prefious pust.
Edited 9/8/2004 8:22 pm ET by JUNKHOUND
HD considers the rest of you hilbillies out there not so sophisticated or demanding.
I can live with that ....
Jeff
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Artistry in Carpentry
>HD considers the rest of you hilbillies out there not so sophisticated or demanding
Or they're not from NY and don't realize Gotham has rednecks in it too
remodeler
Latte instead of the dregs they keep in the coffee pot here in the midwest?
remodeler
Isn't that Lath or Lathe????
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Edited 9/8/2004 10:03 pm ET by IMERC