matt_hooksMr Trim, I'm not sure as to your reasoning behind there being a limit to the number of items that can be unserviceable. Absent the rare case where items are interdependant, the number of items is irrelevant. If it's safe to fly with it broken then it doesn't matter what else is broken (as I said, there ARE exceptions to this, but in general it holds).
Hey Matt. Thanks for your post. My idea behind suggesting a limited number of MELs is just as Dream Land put it:
Dream LandMEL is a document to give you safe guidance on continued operation with known defects and to get the aircraft back to a maintenance base while maintaing dispatch reliability, it's not a license to run around with several defects but some companies will treat it like that. 
Also, I do think it matters if you are constantly flying with a large number of inoperative items (despite if they are interrelated or not). In that way a lot of the redundancy (thus safety) of aircraft systems is lost.
P.S. Hey, guys, how do you quote?