For a Saturday morning from Memail
 

"If 99.9% Is Good Enough...."
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-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)

When near enough ain't good enough.... here's another (true) story....
 

You're right, Richard.... Sometimes near enough just ain't good enough....

Here's another interesting news story I read recently....

A Russian criminal was crossing the border between Ukraine and Slovakia.

But as he crossed the passport control booth, his fake ears fell off!

He had asked a surgeon to glue some fake ears on him to help with his disguise, but the surgeon had used a cheap glue....

So the moral of the story is: When gluing fake ears on, make sure you use a quality adhesive. :)

Thanks, Richard, for sharing those stats.... :)

Cheers,

Dien