Thursday, December 2, 2010

IF 99% IS GOOD ENOUGH, THEN...

  • 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
  • 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped a year.
  • 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled an hour.
  • 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
  • 2,500,000 books will be shipped with the wrong covers
  • 2 planes landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe everyday.
  • 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 have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
  • 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year.
  • 5,500,000 cases of soft drinks produced will be flat.
  • 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly.
  • 3,056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections