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Park (it used to be, anyway)

Riv, the last time I was down there (beyond just a change of planes) was April 2003 - the Augusts I have spent there were in the mid 1990s. I'm due for another trip.At any rate, your white with gray comments extends to rentals as well. The nicest color for the LaCrosse COULD be the Glacier Blue Metallic, except it has no depth. It is, as you said in a post a while back, anemic. Good choice of words. Every car I have ever owned has been light metallic blue except for my current vehicle which is silver. One reason I won't do the CXL is because of the leather interior. Shorts + 100 degrees + leather = yikes! Funny, though, that the Allure CXL sold to our neighbors to the north is outfitted in cloth. (Where's that damn Canadian icon when you need it?)

"Oh, yeh, I have a dwatah who lives in Flah-ri-da."

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Totally agree. Reg, you are a bona-fide "horndog."

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I think the Lucerne is a WONDERFUL car. Good going, Buick! It's a little bigger than I like to pilot around. I will probably go GP first, especially if they de-demonize the front a little bit, but I will also consider the LaCrosse CX, since I do think a grille adjustment is coming down the pike. I'm going for the basic $ 23,000 sled. The nice thing about a Buick product is the 4 year warranty to Pontiac's 3 year warranty. Oh, to your comment about white -- it's fine if it's no cost and certainly, in Florida, it's a nice color to have...I've been in your area on several occasions in August and white exterior/gray interior helps mitigate the intensity of the So. Fla. summer.

He is NOT a big client. The job for him is almost done. Aside from these 4 minute flaws, the drawings given to him were very good. He gives us work from time to time. I will probably tell the main guy at work what occurred and couch it carefully...since he seems to have my ear to some extent. I'll also tell him to assign someone else to his project on the next go around.

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Ha ha. Either that or Splenda. It's a tacked on bonus for enticement. Like bumping me from $2,222 to $3,000 when, per the formula, I'm only entitled to $2,222...on the cars I'm looking for. I think another one will come around in 6 to 9 months.

Today at work, a jerk contractor who is a client for a build-out went off on me for 15 minutes. On M and W, I go in at 6:30 and leave at 3:30 for an evening class I take. He started at 3:12 and it ended at 3:27 pm. What he screamed about was petty. He's this cocky ex-jock type of jerk now in construction management (kind of a typical path, actually) who was pissed because there were 4 minor misinterpretations of what he wanted in his documents. I had an answer for every one of them. I was even big enough to admit I made my own interpretation on some that I didn't know how they would fly. He cooled a little but, in the 2 years I've been at this firm, or in any archi. firm, I've never had anybody go off like this. I really wanted to tell him to f*** off, but I value my job and my income. How do you deal with a client or customer who goes for your throat in a work setting? I'm pretty conscientious about what I do, so I don't see much of this.

Man, this thread awoke from a long slumber...what's up with that? Paulie...Paulie...Paulie...oy Let's make this a general purpose thread. That's one of the absolute hardest things to accept in life. And it goes both ways (I'm being serious) - some have done it to you and, conversely, you inevitably have done it to someone else: a guy or girl who was nuts over you and you were just "eh" on them - let's be friends. Don't tell me you haven't done that? In the past, it was done to me more. Now, as I have become more cautious and self-sufficient, I tend to be the one that does the rejecting. I don't like being put in that role but I've not given off any signals other than being approachable or polite that warrant any more than that. Another thing - and I have to give you shit: is it the NY or the Italian or both that make you spew this unbridled neurotic passion? Good God. Take a chill pill. Have you ever looked back and saw that someone you were nuts about was probably "just ok" in perspective several years later? I am SURE that's happened to you and don't deny it. I've done that - what did I see 5 years ago? I went to a high school reunion because I found out that a girl I was nuts about from 17 through 20 or 21 was available (very sad circumstances that made her available). Knowing her penchant for this kind of event, I knew she'd be there. She was. Because I had changed A LOT she didn't recognize me and came up to me at the bar and introduced herself! I thought - is this a turning of the tables from when I was a short squirt of a junior and senior at my little Catholic high school? I told her who I was. She was a little perplexed but, since we were among the few unpaired people there, she sits at my table for dinner. To make a long story short, she became DISinterested over the ensuing months because she had "boxed" me in as who I was at 17 or 18. The reality was that, in addition to changing physically, I became much more worldly and self-confident. She couldn't get there. In reality, she had declined in "quality" - no she didn't put on weight or anything. She just wasn't that great of a package and I was able to see a lot of her personal issues (many) that you would gloss over as a kid because a person looks a certain way and that's all that matters. You're not a kid anymore. You've done enough living to where you should take on the attitude "if they don't like me, then so what." It's a great place to be. It took a while for me to get there. It may for you as well. Be cool. Va bene?

1. Interior environment: cockpit ergonomics and greenhouse 2. Pleasing exterior styling, somewhat sporty but also functional 3. Quiet ride while still sensing what's going on through the steering wheel 4. Reliability and longevity Sounds like a W-body, right Croc?

I've heard that they certainly are. They reduce the up front cap cost. I'm not too up on leasing verbiage since I tend to buy. I currently have $ 2,222 on my card as of the last bill and, over the weekend, I got a deal sweetener to $ 3,000. I figure that those deal sweeteners will come around every 6 months or so as they have in the past. Are you thinking of leasing a Lucerne? I am beginning to see them around and their lines are quite attractive.

Then they should have put Michael Jackson into the mix.

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I guess I should consider myself lucky. The only body mishap in the first Cutlass was the rust that formed between the vinyl landau top and the beltline...that was everywhere in those cars. It rained into the trunk as I was near the end of grad school, so on Saturday mornings I would get up and scoop it out. I always wondered what the dude who farmed near Champaign, Illinois did with my car and how much longer he kept it. I wanted to drive it back across the plains and over the Rockies to Portland to complete the car's "circle trip" but my parents said "United...one way ticket" instead.

So far, just 19 out of 30 GMers. That's not even 2/3. And we call ourselves aficionados?

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Agree wholeheartedly! Those taillights on the Regal are great compared to the blob of red that goes across the entire rear of the American version...it's proportions actually mimic those of the Intrigue.

Great skyline? What else am I supposed to be looking at?

Yikes. A bit TOO pale or is it the photography? They remind me of Gwynneth Paltrow (sp?) and Kate Winslet? How about a good dose of melanin -- like Rachel Ward?

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