Okay, can everyone stop quoting spokesmen when they declare that some massive failure was the result of a "perfect storm" of some condition they were supposed to have under control?
The latest to float this claim was NYSE chairman Richard Grasso, who called the Worldcom scandal "the perfect storm of failure." Ummm.. no. This was not the convergence of three minor failures. This was a huge case of accounting fraud. And it wasn't a once-per-hundred-year kind of thing, either, quite obviously.
Before this, we've had the perfect forest fire (can't find the citation, but it's been used to refer to several), the perfect meteor storm, and even a "perfect little ice storm", just to name a few.
Time for a perfect little thesaurus, perhaps.
