Jatt13 Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 This is pretty scary: If 99.9% Was Good Enough Then... Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour. 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute. 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day. 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year. 14,208 defective PCs will be shipped this year. 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year. 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover. 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire. Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe. 3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections. 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour. 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year. 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips. $9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment. 55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months. 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months. 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year. $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play. 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today. 315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 i remember seeing an ad on TV about some juice which was putting down other juices for being made from only 10%...and they showed a couple of funny "if 10% was enough" scenarios! and looking at 99.9%...this is freaky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 Hmmm....pretty interesting, i wouldn't say freaky, but still interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taos Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 I think that information like that is a little on the freaky side......scary to think about. I'm not sure which is more incredible: whether or not all of that is true or that someone actually sat around and calculated all of those things...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SebastianSedlo Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 It shows how much we make, and how much resources we take. To me, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatt13 Posted October 27, 2002 Author Share Posted October 27, 2002 i remember those comercials, kkrode. they were hilarious! there was this one were a littl kid was driving down the sidewalk in a little race car thing and the dad was watching and then he looked down and saw that on the box it said something like "works 10% of the time" and then the car started falling apart as he drove it and, and .... *pantpantpant*. well, they were funny to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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