Thursday, September 15, 2005

You might wanna check those figures

The following sentence appeared in an email that was sent to everyone at my firm today, in reference to the American Red Cross's relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina:

"More than 8,395,226 million hot meals and 6,632,910 million snacks have been served to-date"

I'm guessing either there's a whole lot more people in New Orleans than I realized, or someone at the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago doesn't understand the concept of "million." Or maybe it's, um, a rounding error. Yeah, that's it.

2 Comments:

At Thu Sep 15, 12:54:00 PM PDT, Blogger Jen said...

All the Bush political appointees and patronage workers (oh wait, they're the same thing) are surely eating some of those meals, so the number could be right.

 
At Thu Sep 15, 06:44:00 PM PDT, Blogger Jamie said...

So what? I eat 150 hundred times a day. If you question anything pertaining to the relief effort, then you hate freedom. And love France. Pussy.

 

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