Subject: If 99.9% Is Good Enough...{Insp}
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 03:02:15 EDT
"If 99.9% Is Good Enough...."
12 newborns will be given to the wrong
parents daily.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be
shipped/year.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour.
2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS
this year.
2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong
covers.
Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport
will be unsafe every day.
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be
misspelled.
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written
this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out
to have incorrect cardholder information on their
magnetic strips.
103,260 income tax returns will be processed
incorrectly during the year.
5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will
be flat.
291 pacemaker operations will be performed
incorrectly.
3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal
will be missing one of the three sections
A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or
take 86.4 seconds)
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