CAPTION and clean up the mess in Aisle 6

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

President George W. Bush (news - web sites) sits with Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli (C) and Home Depot employee Jessica Adamson at a store in Lansdowne, Maryland, December 5, 2003. Bush visited workers from the booming housing sector as he sought to convince a still-wary public that the U.S. economy was firmly on the rebound. (William Philpott/Reuters)

[Mikimouse]

1. Howdy Doody in the 21st century

It's OK, we don't have to clean up the aisle. There'll be plenty of people available for that kind of work when the 'booming housing market' falls apart and all of the newly built dwellings are foreclosed. Hurray for the economy! (sarcasm off)

[Bertha Venation]

2. Employee Jessica Adamson Thought Bubble:

"Strengthening America's Economy," my ass. You've got a lot of nerves coming to a fucking Home Depot to spout this shit, 'Mr. President.' Look me in the eye and tell me that your fucking tax cuts have helped me. Come to my house & look at what I have to feed my kids. Introduce my children to fresh fruit, would you, because they haven't seen it in a while. Call my creditors and tell them, 'It's okay, she'll pay eventually -- my tax cuts will work!' and see if that makes them shut the hell up.

"Piss off, 'Mr. President.'"

[xultar]

3. I dont 't know much about presidentin but i'll tell ya that Ryobi is great

[underpants]

4. I have no use for politicians --they all look like gameshow hosts to me

-Sting

[cosmicdot]

5. W: Home on de Pot ... so much to say to you folks ... no, I'm not Diana

((my apologies for getting windy))


Ross, and these are not my Supremes ... thank goodness we had a map, or we might have been riding around all day trying to find your town ... the provided directions helped, too, although it took us awhile to figure out which trailer we were to look for before we took a hard right ... it's good to find a place so near Washington where most people let us decide things for them ... sometimes it pays not to think for yourselves ... correct me if I'm wrong ... I did learn stuff hanging out at the ballpark preparing myself for world affairs that I know we're officially a fire hazard sitting here in this aisle ... so, we'd like to thank the local fire folks for accepting our envelope donation this morning ...

... they asked me to put on a smock, but I don't like to be made a smockery ... I'm surprised that John Langone isn't CEO, no offense Bob, but John owns over 18 million shares ... whoa ... can you imagine those dividend checks ... wow ... but, Bob did make almost $2 million last year with a $4 million bonus ... well, done there ... and, you get 6 times your salary in stock options ... very well done ... so, you humps out there ... scan well, and maybe someday, after all the other good ol'boys ahead of you die or something, you, too, might fit the mold ... you've got a great Board with neat contacts, like Roger Penske, you know, the rental truck business owned by GE ... way cool ...

... ChoicePoint is represented, and I can tell you, they love them in Florida and Mexico ... your Board has done a great job of making sure the stockholders keep those pesky human and tree-hugging propositions voted down ... afterall, I've got Uncle Prescott Jr., handling the China situation ... I'll go on record to say that Home de Pot has probably one of the most diverse Board portfolios in the world ...

... unfortunately, we couldn't get any volunteer to debate me today, but we do have Bob and this minimum wage lead clerk to watch my back ... hope you all like my new mic and stool image caused by some of those Demonrats who have an ability to talk without a speech or notes ... this is great practice ...

GREGORY D. BRENNEMAN, 41, Director since 2000
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TurnWorks, Inc., a private equity firm, since October 2002
- President and Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting from June 2002 to October 2002
- President of Continental Airlines, Inc. from 1996 to 2001 and member of the Board and Chief Operating Officer of Continental Airlines from 1995 to 2001
- Member of the Board of Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

RICHARD H. BROWN, 55, Director since 2000
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Data Systems Corporation from 1999 to March 2003
- Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Wireless plc from 1996 to 1998
- President and Chief Executive Officer of H&R Block, Inc. from 1995 to 1996
- Member of the Board of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
- Member of:
- The Business Council
- The Business Roundtable
- The U.S. - France Business Council
- The U.S. - Japan Business Council
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University

JOHN L. CLENDENIN, 68, Director since 1996
- Retired as Chairman in 1997 and as President and Chief Executive Officer in 1996 of BellSouth Corporation
- Member of the Board of:
- Acuity Brands, Inc.
- Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
- Equifax Inc.
- The Kroger Co.
- Powerwave Technologies, Inc.
- Past Chairman/President of:
- The Committee for Economic Development
- Junior Achievement
- The Boy Scouts of America
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce

BERRY R. COX, 49, Director since 1978
- Chairman of Berry R. Cox, Inc., a privately held investment management company
- Principally engaged in investments in public and private securities and real estate development for over 25 years
- Member of the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Medical Foundation

WILLIAM S. DAVILA, 71, Director since 1999
- Retired as Chief Operating Officer of Vons Grocery Company in 1992 and served as President Emeritus from 1992 through 1998
- Member of the Board of:
- Hormel Foods Corporation
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company

CLAUDIO X. GONZALEZ, 68, Director since 2001
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. since 1973
- Member of the Board of:
- America Movil
- General Electric Company
- Kellogg Company
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Mexico Fund, Inc.
- Grupo Carso
- Grupo ALFA
- Grupo Mexico
- Grupo Televisa
- Investment Co. of America

RICHARD A. GRASSO, 56, Director since 2002
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Stock Exchange since 1995
- Member of the Board of:
- The Centurion Foundation
- Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
- New York City Police Foundation
- New York City Public Private Initiatives Inc.
- New York University
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management
- Trustee of the Stony Brook Foundation
- Member of the International Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Chairman of the Economic Club of New York
- Vice Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation

MILLEDGE A. HART, III, 69, Director since 1978
- Member of the Board since 1985 and Chairman since 1997 of DocuCorp
International, Inc.
- Chairman of the Board of:
- Hart Group, Inc., a private management service and investment company, since 1988
- Rmax, Inc., an insulation manufacturing company, since 1977
- Member of the Board of:
- Patton Surgical Corporation
- Lyco Energy Corporation
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Investment Committee and member of the Academic Policy and Hart E-Center Committees of the Board of Southern Methodist University
- Member of the Board of Trustees and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy of Duke University
- Member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Episcopal School of Dallas

BONNIE G. HILL, 61, Director since 1999
- President of B. Hill Enterprises, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in corporate governance and board organizational and public policy issues, since 2001
- President and Chief Executive Officer of The Times Mirror Foundation from 1997 to 2001
- Senior Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs of the Los Angeles Times from 1998 to 2001
- Vice President of The Times Mirror Company, a newspaper and publishing company, from 1997 to 2000
- Dean of McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia from 1993 to 1996
- Member of the Board of:
- AK Steel Holding Corporation
- Albertson's, Inc.
- ChoicePoint Inc.
- Hershey Foods Corporation
- The National Grid Transco plc
- Orange County Performing Arts Center
- Los Angeles Urban League
- Police Assessment Resource Center
- Member of the National Advisory Panel of the Institute for Research on Women
and Gender at Stanford University

KENNETH G. LANGONE, 67, Director since 1978
- Co-founder of The Home Depot
- Lead Director of The Home Depot since 1998
- Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Invemed Associates, Inc., an investment banking and brokerage firm, for more than five years
- Member of the Board of:
- ChoicePoint Inc.
- General Electric Company
- YUM Brands, Inc.
- Unifi, Inc.
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
- The Children's Oncology Society of New York (The Ronald McDonald House of New York)
- New York Philharmonic
- The New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
- Robin Hood Foundation
- Trustee of New York University
- Trustee of New York University Leonard Stern School of Business
- Chairman of New York University School of Medicine

ROBERT L. NARDELLI, 54, Director since 2000
- Chairman of The Home Depot since January 2002
- President and Chief Executive Officer of The Home Depot since December 2000
- President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Power Systems from 1995 through December 2000
- Member of the Board of The Coca-Cola Company

ROGER S. PENSKE, 66, Director since 2001
- Founder and Chairman of Penske Corporation since 1969
- Chairman of (GE)Penske Truck Leasing Corporation since 1982
- Chairman of United Auto Group, Inc. since 1999
- Member of the Board of:
- Delphi Corporation
- General Electric Company
- Detroit Renaissance
- Member of The Business Council

[soupkitchen]

6. Welcome to the Home Despot, oh I mean Depot, no, Home Despot show

[Catshrink]

7. Agent Orange

That's what our neighborhood True Value guy calls them.

[underpants]

8. Look......Lowe's SUCKS!!!

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