A call was placed.
"Thank you for calling the Boston Medical Group."
You list locations in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, NorthMiami Beach, Chicago, San Francisco and New York.
"Yes."
Do you have any locations in Boston?
"No."
Thank you.
"You're welcome."
The price of glory
Bill and Ted's Excellent Olympics (Epilog):
Intermountain Health Care reports that the final count for medicaltreatments at the Winter Olympics included 223 cuts and bruises, 146lacerations, 272 upset stomachs, 24 concussions, 16 frostbite, 43hypothermia, 43 altitude sickness, 29 chest pain, 55 headaches, 24burns, 102 back injuries, 30 neck injuries, 74 broken bones anddislocations, 80 eye injuries and 444 sprains.
And QT threw out its back getting up from the couch.
Incompetence isn't cheap
J.B., an Internet reader, regarding QT's offer to become CEO atany corporation and run it into the ground in six months for only $1million in severance, e-mails: "Obviously, hiring QT for corporateCEO would highlight the many faults in the current corporate models.But I can run any company into the ground in just one month for just$100,000 in severance. That's $1.2 million a year for me. Volume isimportant, after all."
OK. Let's see. QT will offer to run any corporation into theground in one week for only $50,000 in severance.
Match that.
This free enterprise is tough.
Ahead of his time
Robert J. Herman, a Willow Springs reader, writes:
"It took Tom Ridge six whole months to come up with his red-alertwarning system? You've had the QTDEFCON alert for years now. Why, QT,you should be collecting his salary, too."
Well. Maybe. But not until QT has run a few corporations into theground.
Supersensitive sensibilities
News Item: Prembrokeshire National Park Committee in England saysit may remove benches with memorial plaques to people who loved thearea because trail walkers complained that memorial plaques were too"somber" and "depressed" them.
Do there remain any upset sensibilities on the planet that haven'tbeen given voice to?
Bosses, take heed
Kevin Dawson, managing director of the CMYK office supply companyin Scotland on why the company is sending all 15 members of its staffand their partners on a weeklong Mediterranean cruise:
"It's for the hard work they've done."
Clip and put on your boss' desk.
Another master criminal
Modern Education + the Criminal Mind =
A man wanted by police in Los Angeles, when left a pager messageasking him to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff, returned the page,police said.
Roman holiday
Tomorrow's Birthdays: Hadrian, 1,926; Fabio, 41.
Watch out, Sopranos
Whitewater independent counsel Robert Ray on resigning after 29months on the job:
"It is time for me to return home to my family in New Jersey, andI look forward to new challenges ahead for me there."
Don't say you weren't warned, New Jersey.
QT appears Sunday through Thursday and is at qt@suntimes.com.
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