SPPH's Jean François Amyot's looking at the man in the mirror:
With a big iHub Moderator tip of the hat to senseinseattle who penned the following immortal piece of dramatised documentary over at the "other" message board:
"This morning when Amyot woke up for his big meeting with Amyot on his proposed buyout by his company of his company was he nervous? I mean this is a big deal!
So he walks into his bathroom and gets real spruced up and puts on his "good" Boss suit. The one he wears to the big time meetings.
Before heading to the meeting he makes sure every hair on his head is perfect and that each eyebrow is plucked.
Today he is the Donald!
He is ready to go. He quickly heads across the room to the meeting and sits comfortably in front of the mirrors of his wife's vanity. Immediately Amyot appears in the mirror....looking directly at Amyot. The Amyot in the mirror states all the terms of the new offer. Amyot who is now anxious sitting at the vanity tells Amyot in the mirror:
"NO DEAL!" You are a cheap man and so is your company HFP!
Amyot stands up from the vanity/mirror and says:
"I am going to put out a PR for the world."
Before closing the door on his way out he takes a parting swipe at Amyot in the mirror and says,
"When your company has a real business publicly traded we will talk. Until, then do not waste my time nor our shareholders time. Goodbye Amyot."
Then slams his door and rides off into the sunset."
Which given that Amyot is the sole Director and in full control of both Spencer Pharmaceutical and Hail First Pharma (not to mention Hilbroy Advisory and IAB (ItsAllBull) Media), is pretty much exactly how the tense negociations between SPPH "and" HFP must have gone.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken
