[20349] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet 1, Backhoe 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Broadfoot)
Fri Oct 9 13:52:55 1998
From: George Broadfoot <george@laserlink.net>
To: "'Roeland M.J. Meyer'" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
"'Dan Foster'"
<dsf@frontiernet.net>
Cc: "'Jeff Weisberg'" <jaw@Op.Net>, "'Dan Foster'" <dsf@frontiernet.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'john@bestconnect.net'"
<john@bestconnect.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:02:23 -0400
Be sure to check out the fiber cutting Gopher backhoe shirt
at www.bizarroland.com
George Broadfoot
Laser Link Communications
610.566.2993
"The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed
Linux."
Be sure to check out the fiber cutting Gopher backhoe shirt
at www.bizarroland.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Roeland M.J. Meyer
Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 12:36 PM
To: Dan Foster
Cc: Jeff Weisberg; Dan Foster; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0
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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