Overheard secretsWhen I was a barman, I stood by polishing a glass as a couple had a hushed argument two feet away about what they were going to do now she was pregnant. The bloke promised to leave his wife, but subsequent hushed arguments revealed that he did not. What have you overheard?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 13:36)
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Bitter pill....?I was in an airport lounge about 18 months ago when I heard a fellow talking on his mobile to someone from his office. He was describing a clinical trial of a new drug - he was evidently a senior researcher at a pharmaceutical company, and the trial had not gone according to plan.
Through a combination of listening to this indiscreet, loud-mouthed chap, and quickly searching publicly-available information on the web, I was able to figure out very quickly the name of the experimental drug, the company, the disease it was being researched in, that the results hadn't met expectations, that the doctors involved in the research would be informed the following day, a press release would go out the following day, and that there was some damage limitation going on involving identification of a subset of patients in the research who actually did OK.
Slightly tempted to recite it all back to him as I was leaving the lounge, just to see the look on his face.
(, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 2:12, 2 replies)
But insteadYou short sold a large quantity of stock?
(, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 15:48, closed)
Sounds like he knew what you did.Unless you mean he was one of the scientists working on it, in whixh case I'm surprised you knew what he was talking about (no offence meant, you may be a scientist in a similar field, etc. ...).
(, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 18:32, closed)
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