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Where do I begin? Gawd, I hate those marketing types who want to schmooze and can't do anything remotely technical to save their lives. It's the more detail-oriented people (some of them who tend toward the nicer end of the spectrum) who get all the work while they PLAY...

Thanks for the post. It's pretty detailed. I will do this after my evening class finals (in a few weeks).

I just asked myself this question dealing with a client today. ARRRGGGHHH. I once posted a thread about rude customers. (I had one contractor/client go for my jugular last spring because of a few things I didn't pick up on a floor plan after our firm went through a mutiny - 15 % of the staff walked out in 1 day - and a lot of us were scrambling to keep everything in check). I would have gone off on him but I kept cool thinking: braces to be paid for with cafeteria plan - check, vesting schedule for 401 K is higher in April - check...you get the idea. Today, I would tell him to 'eff off. This is a different client I'm talking about now. Our projects with this client are winding down. She calls on the back end of the project looking for extra work for free - can you move this wall, can you help with evaluating this...(not billed). As I have moved on to other projects, I return her calls within 1 to 2 days instead up picking up the phone. Since she notices the difference from 6 months ago, she has gotten a little testy. In short, being the polite, polished and always at the client's beck and call routine was starting NOT to pay off, so I changed my m.o. I believe in being nice...but firm. If you are nice and NOT firm, that's not a good spot to be. I don't think being an a-hole is the way to go, either. They can only get away with it for so long. Post your opinions and stories if you like.

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Happy birthday, Vipes! Is it snowing there?

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Ok, you guys will think I'm a geek. I voted just OK. It's not THAT distinctive...looking too much like the Infiniti SUV/crossovers one sees on the road. Plus, I'm not a fan of bulbous styling and it definitely has some of those contours. You can do a more slabbish car/SUV/crossover and still inject personality into it. Still, I hope people buy them and Buick fetches increased market share!

Bingo, of that set of quadruplet coupes (Regal, Cutlass, GP and Lumina) to ride on the W-body platform in the late 80s and early 90s, the Regal was "the looker!" I agree wholeheartedly. That's why I've treated it so well. Thus, if someone wants that body style, there aren't many around to choose from.

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You read my mind! "Georgia on my mind" My response: Atlanta (used to live there for 2 years)

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And that's fine...I'd take a "grand" or so...I can't keep it once I get the new car and I wouldn't want to pay for some major repairs which I haven't yet had to do just to keep a second car around!

Listen, you....just kidding...hey that nice metallic dark blue GLM you found me in a suburb of Seattle wasn't exactly being given away, either, but I think the mileage was on the low side...

Believe it or not, it does....it was over-maintained (oil every 2.5 K, trans fluid every 18 K, tunes every 30 K), so it is extremely quiet running and the shifts feel like they did when it was new.

It's a 1992. In the near-term future, I will have to sell it. I figure that, with less than 20,000 miles to go to hit the BIG 250,000, I'll keep it that long. Ok, the guidebooks say about $ 1,400. ARE THERE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD PAY $ 1,200 to $ 1,400 for a car (in excellent shape, mind you) that has a QUARTER OF A MILLION MILES?

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Have a great birthday, sci ...funny because I have an acquaintance who is from Media PA (a good part of Media, he says) that is a Villanova grad who shares your birthday.... different year, obviously. Enjoy!

I'm a white guy who can act black and I do Ebonics very well, as well as a Cuban accent, a Jewish/Yiddish accent, a Southern accent and a few others. Seriously, we are all too 'EFFIN uptight about stereotyping. Most of this $h! is true or people wouldn't notice it. You've heard "20,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong" - right? You rarely see young white guys in Regals, Monte Carlos, etc. but you will definitely see young blacks/Hispanics in GM mid-lux vehicles which white guys would dismiss as "uncool." I have driven these types of cars since I've had a license because that's what I want to drive. And they've been great cars. Is it any news blacks like Buicks? No more than the fact that lesbians like Subarus. And Subaru knows it. And so does Buick. The only negative is that the black association might be offputting to the upmarket white yuppie who is governed more by social norms than his own backbone. I say "Walk on, child...walk on to that shiny new Buick"

Buick will hopefully make the right decision. We are all presenting different opinions, and I am sure what will finally happen will be some blended decision of what we all want. I need to sleep easy at night, so I will be rocketing to the showroom sometime next year to snag me a 3800 V6 + 4 speed automatic combo. My Regal crosses over 230,000 tomorrow during my morning commute and I am awed by the very low thus-far repair bills and the car is somewhere between 14.5 and 15 years old. I want another one of these engines (purchased brand new again) one more time in my life.

Only because they choose to make it this way. Their current government is not designed to oppress people, though it is not really up to the task. These people are reinforcing the stereotype that this corner of the world is full of unruly people incapable of going about life in an orderly manner. I don't know where all the sickness of haphazard killing based on religious fanaticism is going to take them. It's very sad. That entire area could, and ought to, be able to enjoy a lifestyle that is found in other more progressive Muslim areas such as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, for example.

How would you say that in Portuguese:"uma pessoa que siempre va dizer 'sim' " ??? Are they STILL married?

I agree with most of what you said, particuarly the reintroduction of a stunning Riviera coupe and the release of the Velite. I do not agree with you on the 3800. I think this powerplant could have been modernized instead of tossed out. However, the LaCrosse and the Lucerne could benefit from those things you mention in terms of better creature comfort and fit/finish. I find all the column mounted shifter LaCrosses and Lucernes I see at the dealerships to scream "Buick of yesterday...or 2 decades ago." Simple line up: LaCrosse FWD Lucerne FWD "Zeta" RWD Riviera RWD Velite RWD Enclave AWD I think Buick could handle 6 vehicles in 6 niches, though I do wonder how Lucerne/Zeta will overlap.