This is a *classic* !!! Think about this message the next time you feel "the system" needs to be scrapped or changed because of a few bad incidents... ------------ If 99.9% is good enough, then.... * Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. * 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day. * 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year. * 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank account in the next 60 minutes. * 1,134 phone calls will be misplaced by the telecommunications services every minute. * 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year. * 14,208 defective personal computers 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. * 3,056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of 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 cardholder 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. * 22,000 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 compact discs that won't play. * 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day. * 315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English language will turn out to be misspelled.