Jim Stewart wrote:


Yesterday I was trying to recount a story I heard years
ago. It was something like... a US company makes an
incredibly small drill, drills a hole in something, sends
it to their Swiss/German counterparts to show it off,
Counterparts send the part back with the hole tapped and
a screw in it.

Does anyone know the story and is it true?

Sorry to be late to the party, but...

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/wire.asp

BugBear