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Posted By: <b>Joe_G.</b><p>Engineer in the Automotive Industry. I have been working for Chrysler the last 10 years with the last 3 as a Powertrain Engineer on the Hemi engine program. My group is responsible for defining required hardware to not only keep the Hemi competitive but dominate the competition. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> In doing so, I spend a lot of time around both dyno & vehicle test properties. We test and develop hardware that won't see the customer for several years.<br /><br />Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: <b>Daniel McCarthy</b><p>I am an attorney in Fort Worth doing mostly tax-related transactional work.<br /><br />Have been slowly getting sucked into the hobby. This board is a wonderful resource.<br /><br />Dan

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Posted By: <b>Aaron M.</b><p>In-house counsel for an entertainment financing company. (Yes, another attorney. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />--Aaron <br /><br /><a href="http://aaronsroom.blogspot.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://aaronsroom.blogspot.com</a>/<br />

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>again, the gigolo was just a joke, i do real "handyman" work so i appreciate the offers to service your wives so you wont have to but some of those pictures hurt my eyes...<br />pete-<br><br>my best pitch was the one that made it to the plate!

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Posted By: <b>Tom Botticelli</b><p>Restaurant/Bar Owner for the last ten years until the wife told me it was time to grow up and get a real job. Just kidding. The smoking ban hurt. Now at George Mason, Accounting and Economics.<br /><br />Tom

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Posted By: <b>Brian</b><p>Always lurked...never posted...time to start..<br /><br />UPS driver

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Posted By: <b>Anson</b><p>I manage a veterinary office.....actually, Keith, I could use another veterinarian if you feel like moving to San Jose.<br /><br />Robert A, I also play old-time fiddle music (among other things). I did a CD about 8 years ago but it was working with a tenor guitar. However, it did feature Byron Berline (for those of you who care) on several cuts.

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Posted By: <b>MikeB</b><p>I am also a veterinarian...in Louisville,Ky<br />

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Posted By: <b>Anson</b><p>I pay vintage card-collecting veterinarians very well, if you want to move out here!!<br /><br />Sorry for the O/T

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Posted By: <b>Todd Schultz</b><p>I'm a dirty shirt lawyer in Phoenix, aspiring to be Kenny Cole.

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Posted By: <b>Anthony</b><p>Advertising Photographer, mostly of people (little over half of that kids) but a bit of still life for variety and sanity. Best career in the world, and keeps getting better.

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Posted By: <b>RP60</b><p>I'm a mailman in new York, Suffolk county..And could I tell you stories about padded envelopes that would keep all of you from sleeping at night...

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Posted By: <b>craig</b><p>i have managed my family's video business for 19 years and i am also a touring/studio musician, drums. my favorite, most rewarding and important, i am the father of 3 boys; tommy lee-2 (after the drummer), tyrus-3 (yes of course cobb), and zachary-8 (my wonderful stepson).

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Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>zachary, after zach wheat right?<br><br>my best pitch was the one that made it to the plate!

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Posted By: <b>Richard Lloyd</b><p>Hello..<br />I work for a Defense Contractor where I have been desigining warheads for missiles for the last 20 years as well as managing my team of engineers. Written several books on warhead technology and teach around the world. I also am on roster for the United Nations as a trained Iraq weapon inspector.<br />Best<br />Dick

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Posted By: <b>Keith O'Leary</b><p><P>Quite a diverse crowd here.</P><P>And we all like vintage cards?</P><P><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14></P><P> </P>

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Posted By: <b>david</b><p>a biochemist, but perhaps not for long if all the lawyers on the board dont help put a stop to the vioxx lawsuits out there. if not soon to be the greeter at the local walmart

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>David:<br /><br />I know that some frivilous lawsuits are gumming up the new drug R&D pipelines...<br /><br />but from everything that has come out in the testimony from the Vioxx trials to date, Merck deserves everything they have coming to them on this one.<br /><br />A company memo to their sales reps about how to play "Dodgeball" with doctors in order to avoid answering questions about the side effects of Vioxx and the adverse results of their own study?? <br /><br />Their OWN former employees testifying against them and saying that they were "blackballed" when they tried to speak out against the dangers??<br /><br /><br />Definitely NOT something I want to hear about as a consumer if I was taking ANY drug!<br /><br />And definitely NOT frivilous.<br /><br /><br /><img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Mohler</b><p>What's with all the attorneys on the board? I am one too! I do real estate settlements and a small amount of bankruptcy work in Pennsylvania Dutch country (Lancaster County, PA).<br /><br />Jeff Mohler

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Where is the outrage at the Federal Drug Agency who<br />tested this drug for many years and approved it ?<br />Perhaps, the lawyers cannot sue a Federal agency and<br />get big bucks ?<br /><br />And, why aren't the lawyers going after very similar<br />type drugs such as Celebrex, etc. ? All these drugs<br />have the same side-effects as Vioxx.<br /><br />My dear niece (PHD) works in the research dept. at<br />Merck, so I do have a pretty good insight into this<br />situation. And, I am sure I will be accused of not<br /> having an objective viewpoint on this matter.

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Posted By: <b>brian p</b><p>Why so many lawyers? Our hobby has steadily gotten more expensive over the past couple of decades, to the point where you have to be on the upper end of the economic scale to regularly pursue the more desirable cards that are discussed on this board. There is still room for lower end collectors like myself--we just have to find a niche within the vintage collecting realm and keep plugging away at it.<br /><br />Brian

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>Ted:<br /><br />The FDA approved the drug based upon the studies that MERCK supplied to it. The FDA could not have known that Merck would cover up important and dangerous facts.<br /><br />This would be like having someone who works at the Driver's License bureau create a PERFECT-LOOKING fake ID for someone who is not 21... and then trying to sue the BAR who served that person based upon the ID being fake... even thought it looked perfectly real and the Bar did everything by the book in carding the person before serving them.<br /><br />Alas, you and I are probably both biased one way or the other on this...<br /><br />so let's just sit back and see where these UNBIASED juries go after hearing all of the evidence.<br /><br />So far, the count is 0-1 against Merck. The current trial is in their own New Jersey backyard with jurors who surely know someone who works for Merck ... so if they go down 0-2 in their own home field... things will get interesting.<br /><br />Here is a link to the "Dodgeball" stuff: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash& siteid=bizjournal&guid=%7B894447AE%2D61CA%2D479E%2 DAFA1%2D6DE71D128BAA%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory% 2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7B894447AE%2D61CA%2D479E%2DAFA1%2D 6DE71D128BAA%7D%26siteid%3Dbizjournal%26dist%3D%26 archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26min isite%3D" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash& siteid=bizjournal&guid=%7B894447AE%2D61CA%2D479E%2 DAFA1%2D6DE71D128BAA%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory% 2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7B894447AE%2D61CA%2D479E%2DAFA1%2D 6DE71D128BAA%7D%26siteid%3Dbizjournal%26dist%3D%26 archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26min isite%3D</a>

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Posted By: <b>David Yoken</b><p>MBA student at UMass, and will be finishing my degree next spring. In my previous life, I worked in national political campaigns as an operative, fundraiser, researcher, field director, and all around renaissance man.<br /><br />To pay for my cards, I line the pockets of credit card companies.

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Posted By: <b>ockday</b><p>Last 25 years in family business making women's and children's activewear and apparel.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>Ok, we can agree that Merck has an issue that requires litigation. But since we're all so concerned about the poor victims who took their drug, I'm sure all the class action attorneys are lowering their billing rates instead of reaping the 9 figure fees they're sure to get in a settlement. Because, after all, the PI attorneys are partly concerned about public safety issues and not just cash, right?

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Posted By: <b>identify7</b><p>PI attorneys have nothing to do with safety. They only get involved after safety has been ignored. No?

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Posted By: <b>Al Crisafulli</b><p>I'm a marketing guy, working in the ad agency business. Since I started doing this, I get to laugh every single day, so it must be enjoyable.<br /><br />-Al

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Posted By: <b>Nick</b><p>I'm another attorney. I do civil litigation, both plaintiff and defense. <br />

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Posted By: <b>ChuckkieB</b><p>I am a client relationship manager for a global news and financial information organization. Much to my wife's dismay, the majority of my disposable income manages to find it's way to purchasing old pieces of cardboard. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <br /><br />CB

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Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>What you are telling us is that the FDA is not an<br />independent testing facility. Well, I find this very, <br />very scary. And, the alleged "shennanigans" Merck is<br />accused of; don't you think Pfizer is also guilty of<br />the same "tactics" with respect to Celebrex ? Both of<br />these drugs (Vioxx) are designed for alleviating ar-<br />thritis and are essentially the same compounds.<br /><br />Look, if you want to continue this discussion, let us<br />do it Off-Forum. Lest, I get all "wound up" and begin<br />to offend the 20 some odd lawyers that have responded<br />to this Thread. It's been a terrific Thread and I do<br />not want to be responsible for digressing down some<br />O/T path. <br /><br /><br /><br />edited by leon- thanks a lot Ted....I would prefer that this discussion be taken off line....Hal is easy to get a hold of....just watch some Florida TV during the daytime <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>Ted, don't assume that all attorneys support the Med Mal bar - I assure you we don't.

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Posted By: <b>gary Nuchereno</b><p>I owned a restaurant for 25 years in Buffalo NY. For ten of those years I also had a baseball card store right across the street from my restaurant.The main<br />function of the card store was to buy and I was able to buy some great vintage<br />cards over that period. I am retired from all that and do treat the cards as both a hobby and a business today. I have been told by other dealers over the<br />years that"The problem with you Nuch is that you fall in love with your cards"<br />My response is always the same, "your right about that".