vicnic, I got the (very funny) joke about the brain surgeons. Nothing lost in translation there. My comment about headsets in the operating room was also a joke, alefor, playing on vicnic's. I didn't really think surgeons were doing brain surgery while chatting on their phones! If so, I'd hate to see those malpractice premiums--or be one of their patients. FYI, Oracle, surgeons who perform operations while chatting with wired headsets have even higher malpractice insurance rates, especially in New York and Cook counties. Jokes aside, I'm truly sorry if my New York snark (a cousin of British irony) was out of line or misinterpreted.