[20345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Oct 9 12:54:56 1998
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:36:12 -0700
To: Dan Foster <dsf@frontiernet.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: jaw@Op.Net (Jeff Weisberg), dsf@frontiernet.net (Dan Foster),
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810091355.JAA61776@frontiernet.net>
At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:
>Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
>>
>> [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck
>> havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure,
>> a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable.
>> The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting
>> fireball.
>
>Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this
>happy event :-)
>
>Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights,
>then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.
Add five more orders, for MHSC.
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